Not only is the capital market line at a low level today in termsof return, but in addition a number of factors have conspired tofl atten it. (Th is is important, because the slope of the line, or theRECOGNIZING RISK 53extent to which expected return rises per unit increase in risk,quantifi es the risk premium.) First, investors have fallen overthemselves in their eff ort to get away from low- risk, low- returninvestments. . . . Second, risky investments have been very reward-ing for more than twenty years and did particularly well in 2003.Th us, investors are attracted more (or repelled less) by risky invest-ments than perhaps might otherwise be the case, and require lessrisk compensation to move to them. . .risk as being quite limited today. . . .
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