beta

Hello, In the CAPM/MPT chapter, I was trying to get an intuitive understanding of how Beta is computed, without using maths (just like CAPM can be expressed as price of time + price of risk * Quantity of risk). Covariance upon variance can be understood, but I was wondering what an intuitive...

Hi all, I couldn't find a relevant thread on this, but apologies if this has been asked before - I've got myself in to a bit of a quandary around the calculation of "beta", or as we know, the slope of the regression line, for instance between an asset and the hedge. The typical methodology I...

I have one question : 1) we want to decrease the beta of our portfolio to 0.75 without selling one of our positions current , your colleague suggests selling short the spy exchange traded fund (ETF) SPDR S&P 500 ETF trust . How many SPY shares must be sold ? The value of my portfolio is...

A fund manager has a USD 100 million portfolio with a beta of 0.75. The manager has bullish expectations for the next couple of months and plans to use futures contracts on the S&P500 to increase the portfolio´s beta to 1.8. Given the following information, which strategy should the fund manager...