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Need an argumentative essay on (a)Explain why, in equilibrium, all assets must lie on or below the capital market line, but must lie on the security market line.(b)To what extent does recent. Needs to

Need an argumentative essay on (a)Explain why, in equilibrium, all assets must lie on or below the capital market line, but must lie on the security market line.(b)To what extent does recent. Needs to be 5 pages. Please no plagiarism.

In real life, equilibrium is a constantly moving target. We cannot say that the stock market is in equilibrium at the end of the day or week or year. Prices move based on the perception of brokers and shareholders, driven by information (Fama, 1970), psychology (Kahneman and Tversky, 1982), or anything under the sun (Barberis,

Shleifer, and Vishny, 1998). As investors try to maximise returns or minimise losses, they either push up or pull down stock prices, or keep it level, the differences between the demand of buyers and the supply of sellers being reflected in stock price changes.

This is equilibrium, which is not a static point but more of a dynamic process where adjustments constantly take place, reflecting the free agreement of investors in the market that stocks are bought and sold at the right price. Of course, one side thinks the price will go up, while the other side thinks it will go down. By ‘assuming’ equilibrium as an ideal state towards which everything moves, finance academics have discovered a tool that allows them to pin down a moving target – the behaviour of stock prices over the last fifty years, for example – so they can study it, test their theories, develop a mathematical model, and see if the model explains reality.

One such aspect of reality that is being studied for the last half a century is the relationship between the return of a stock price and the risk that the return will not be realised. Several years of observations have made academics ask: how should investors decide which stocks to buy?

This is what Markowitz did in his paper (Markowitz, 1952), where he drew attention to the practice of portfolio diversification. After observing that stock prices move differently in relation to the general movement of the stock market, he showed that investors could reduce the unpredictability of returns by investing in a mixture or portfolio of stocks whose

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