The risk free rate is 10 percent and the expected return on the market portfolio is 14 percent. A firm considers a project that is expected to have a beta of 1.3, whereas the beta on the company is 1.2.
Answer the following questions by providing the rationale to each.
i. What is the required rate of return on the project?
ii. Explain how CAPM provides a framework for measuring the systematic risk of an individual security in a well diversified portfolio, using the concept of security market line?