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llustrate illiquidity risk and small cap premium

My investment bank told me that beta given by Bloomberg incorporates the illiquidity risk and small cap premium since Bloomberg does well-known Bloomberg adjustment formula. Is it true?

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No. The well-known “Bloomberg adjustment formula” is an arbitrary adjustment within order to converge computed betas to 1 and contains multiplying the calculated beta with 0.67 and adding 0.33 to this. Adj. Beta = 0.67 x raw beta + 0.33. This is significant to point out that such adjustment is fully arbitrary.

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