Risk and return relationship in Malaysian finance sector: empirical evidence from capm

ThiS study examines the applicability of Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM) in explaining the risk and return relationship of the Malaysian stock market. The analysis of monthly stock market closing indexes from January 2005 to December 2010 using linear regression method was carried out on the s...

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Main Author: Wong, Wang Ling
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2012
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9067/
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description ThiS study examines the applicability of Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM) in explaining the risk and return relationship of the Malaysian stock market. The analysis of monthly stock market closing indexes from January 2005 to December 2010 using linear regression method was carried out on the standard CAPM model with constant be0 The results revealed that the standard CAPM model is statistically significant. Test results indicate that this model demonstrated excess return of the stock is depending on systematic market risk. This study examined a conditional relationship between risk and returns during market's up and down. The study also found that linear regression indicates moderate explanatory power of beta for the excess return.
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spelling unimas-90672023-05-18T08:25:44Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9067/ Risk and return relationship in Malaysian finance sector: empirical evidence from capm Wong, Wang Ling HG Finance ThiS study examines the applicability of Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM) in explaining the risk and return relationship of the Malaysian stock market. The analysis of monthly stock market closing indexes from January 2005 to December 2010 using linear regression method was carried out on the standard CAPM model with constant be0 The results revealed that the standard CAPM model is statistically significant. Test results indicate that this model demonstrated excess return of the stock is depending on systematic market risk. This study examined a conditional relationship between risk and returns during market's up and down. The study also found that linear regression indicates moderate explanatory power of beta for the excess return. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2012 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9067/2/Wang%28fulltext%29.pdf Wong, Wang Ling (2012) Risk and return relationship in Malaysian finance sector: empirical evidence from capm. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS).
spellingShingle HG Finance
Wong, Wang Ling
Risk and return relationship in Malaysian finance sector: empirical evidence from capm
title Risk and return relationship in Malaysian finance sector: empirical evidence from capm
title_full Risk and return relationship in Malaysian finance sector: empirical evidence from capm
title_fullStr Risk and return relationship in Malaysian finance sector: empirical evidence from capm
title_full_unstemmed Risk and return relationship in Malaysian finance sector: empirical evidence from capm
title_short Risk and return relationship in Malaysian finance sector: empirical evidence from capm
title_sort risk and return relationship in malaysian finance sector: empirical evidence from capm
topic HG Finance
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9067/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9067/2/Wang%28fulltext%29.pdf