It may happen when yu come across stocks that can act as insurance, investors may require lower expected return even negative return. Tenically, if you put negative beta (i.e. insurance stock) into CAPM, it is possible to negative result, which is consistent with the statement above.
In your question, all stocks does not necessarily have expected returns that are greater than zero theoreticall ...
It may happen when yu come across stocks that can act as insurance, investors may require lower expected return even negative return. Tenically, if you put negative beta (i.e. insurance stock) into CAPM, it is possible to negative result, which is consistent with the statement above.
In your question, all stocks does not necessarily have expected returns that are greater than zero theoretically, althought they do in most real-world cases.
According to the CAPM, some assets with negative Beta value should be put into the market portfolio in order to disperse the firm-specific risks. But overall, the expected return of a diversifiable portfolio is positve.