Argues that the Greek secondary bond market (opened in March 1999) needs a specific index to approximate its market portfolio for measuring systematic risk (beta) since the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) index may be misleading. Puts forward a weighted index and explains the five steps involved in...

The capital asset pricing model, using as an approximation of the market portfolio the General Index of the Athens Stock Exchange, has been applied extensively to measure the risk of the bond mutual funds operating in the Greek financial market. This article argues that the General Index of the...