Risk from the perspective of the CAPM

Question

Discuss risk from the perspective of the CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model).

Answer 1

a) The CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model) can be used to compute the correct required return rate for an investment project given its degree of risk similarly as calculated by beta.
b) Beta of a project stands for its degree of risk compared to the overall stock market.
c) When the beta term is multiplied by the market risk premium term in the CAPM, the consequence of that will be the extra return over the risk-free rate which investors will demand from that individual project.
d) High-beta (High-risk) projects have high required return rates and low-beta (low-risk) projects have quite low required return rates.