using real world probability to project equity return

Discussion in 'SP6' started by benny wang, Jan 11, 2017.

  1. benny wang

    benny wang Member

    This has been bugging me for while.

    Say I want to use real world measure to produce stochastic scenarios to project equity return, and for simplicity sake, I am going to use Geometric Brownian Motion as my distribution for return.

    I know that under risk free measure the scenarios would be based off normal distribution with ln (return (t)/(return (t-1)) ~ N (risk free rate - 0.5 x sigma ^2, sigma^2) as per Girsanov Theorem.

    But for real world projection, what is wrong with projecting the equity return using ln (return (t)/(return (t-1)) ~ N (drift, sigma^2) to produce the scenarios?

    Thanks very much
     

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