Arbitraging Mispriced Assets with Separation Portfolios to Lessen Total Risk

Serie Documentos de Trabajo, Documento Nro. 203

15 Pages Posted: 22 May 2009

Date Written: November 2001

Abstract

This paper expands on a procedure to arbitrage mispriced assets against the benchmark provided by the Security Market Line, but using only separation portfolios to put up a feasible portfolio with the same beta as the mispriced asset and the least total risk among other alternative portfolios. Coming next, such arbitrage is dealt directly with one single separation portfolio, which grants that the total risk linked with the arbitrage portfolio equals the non-systematic risk conveyed by the mispriced asset.

Keywords: arbitrage portfolios, separation portfolios, total risk, systematic risk

JEL Classification: G10, G11, G13

Suggested Citation

Apreda, Rodolfo, Arbitraging Mispriced Assets with Separation Portfolios to Lessen Total Risk (November 2001). Serie Documentos de Trabajo, Documento Nro. 203, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1403409 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1403409

Rodolfo Apreda (Contact Author)

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