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4 The stochastic discount factor approach.(Portfolio Performance Evaluation)

Modern asset pricing theory posits the existence of a stochastic discount factor, [m.sub.t+1], which is a scalar random variable, such that the following equation holds:

E([m.sub.t+1]pR.sub.t+1] - [1.bar]| [Z.sub.t]) = 0, (4.1)

where [R.sub.t+1] is the vector of primitive asset gross returns (payoff divided by price), [1.bar] is an N-vector of ones and [Z.sub.t] denotes the public information set available at time t. Virtually all asset pricing models may be viewed as specifying a particular stochastic discount factor, [m.subt+1]. The elements of the vector [m.sub.t+1][R.sub.t+1] may be viewed as "risk adjusted" gross returns. The returns are risk adjusted by ...

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