Weekly Puzzle #6: Market Risk Exposure
The Set up
While risk and return models try to measure risk using regressions of stock returns against market indices, it is only during big market move periods that you really see the differential risk across sectors or businesses. One simple way to back out a measure of market risk exposure (an implied beta) is to take a period where markets were on the move (say from November 2016- Today, for US markets) and look at differences in returns across sectors. It is dangerous to base everything on a month but it is an interesting technique.
The Trump Effect and More...
If you are interested in a longer time period visualization of the sectors, try this link. It is a neat one, since it lets you highlight a sector and see how it shifts over time.
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