Wanna hear a counterintuitive but well known secret? Every asset trades at a price such that the expected return is the risk-free rate. If you don’t believe it, try to find someone that will offer you more than the risk free rate. You won’t. Hint: ask for a forward price
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“A long spot/short forward portfolio earns the risk free rate” is true, but very different from “a long spot position earns the risk free rate”.
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I mean, even “a long spot/short forward portfolio earns the risk free rate” is not true, the proof is the continued existence of fixed income cash and carry trades (or crypto cash and carry if you want to be spicy)
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Is this not true bc it ignores risk? In other words, since stocks are riskier than holding treasuries, we should pay prices for them that imply a higher return than treasuries, so we get paid for the extra risk
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