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1. A student has identified the CAPM and DDM as important formulas for finding a stocks required return and price, respectively. Other things remaining equal, a surprise change in which of the following statistics will increase the stocks price? A stocks price is likely to rise when theres a surprise:

Select one:

a.Rise in the risk free rate.

b.Rise in the market risk premium.

c.Fall in the stocks beta.

d.Fall in the stocks expected dividend.

e.Fall in the stocks expected dividend growth rate.

Fully-diversified fairly-priced portfolios plot:

Select one:

a.Above the security market line (SML).

b.Below the SML.

c.Above the capital market line (CML).

d.On the CML.

e.Below the CML.

3. The next few questions will be based on the same table and statistics that follow. To save you re-reading everything again in these subsequent questions, note that none of the following details will change such as the risk free rate, MRP, cash or trucks, but more items may be added to the table.

A firm has only 2 assets on its balance sheet with the below market values and CAPM betas. The risk free rate is 3% pa and the market risk premium is 5% pa. Assume that the CAPM is correct and all assets are fairly priced.

Selected Company Details
Item	Market value ($m)	Beta
Cash asset	0.5	0
Truck asset	0.5	2

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

Select one:

a.The firms total asset beta is 1 and required return on assets (or WACC before tax) is 8% pa.

b.The cash assets required return is 3% pa.

c.If the market portfolio suddenly rose by 1%, then the expected market value of the cash would rise 1% to be worth $0.01m more.

d.The trucks required return is 13% pa.

e.If the market portfolio suddenly rose by 1%, then the trucks expected market value would rise 2% to be worth $0.01m more.

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