Discuss risk from the perspective of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).
The Capital Asset Pricing Model or CAPM be able to be used to compute the appropriate required rate of return for an investment project given its degree of risk as measured by beta (b). A project's beta represents its extent of risk relative to the overall stock market. In the Capital Asset Pricing Model or CAPM when the beta term is multiplied by the market risk premium term the result is the additional return over the risk-free rate that investors demand from that individual project. High-risk (high-beta) projects have high necessary rates of return, and low-risk (low-beta) projects have low necessary rates of return.