...FNCE 6330 – Fall 2012 Class portfolio project, part I Due: August 27 Blackboard folder: Project, Parts I&II\Portfolio Project, part I This project has three goals. The first is to compare (contrast?) the investment practices of eight legendary investors to the theoretical methods considered in this class. The second is to give you an opportunity to work with real data, albeit over an unrealistically short time horizon. The third and most important goal is that the investor and stock selection process be interesting and fun. Please do not let it turn into a huge time commitment. The assignment is as follows. Part I 1. Go to the Project folder on our website. There you will find links to the biographies of 8 legendary investors. The chapters describing the investors come from John Train's books, The Money Masters and The New Money Masters. Browse the investor profiles and select an investor that interests you. 2. Read the chapter that describes your chosen investor. 3. Choose one stock that reflects your investor's stock selection style. Links to helpful stock-screening websites can be found in the Webliography on eCollege or External Links on Blackboard. Your stock's price must be reported on the Yahoo! Finance web site (link in Webliography or External Links) and have weekly price data going back to July 5, 2011. 4. Go to finance.yahoo.com and download the weekly price series for your stock. To do this, enter your stock's ticker symbol in...
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