________________________ 1. You are considering investing $1,000 in a T-bill that pays 0.05 and a risky portfolio, P, constructed with 2 risky securities, X and Y. The weights of X and Y in P are 0.60 and 0.40, respectively. X has an expected rate of return of 0.14 and variance of 0.01, and Y has an expected rate of return of 0.10 and a variance of 0.0081. If you want to form a portfolio with an expected rate of return of 0.11, what percentages of your money must you invest in the T-bill and
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the “risk-free” rate of return Portfolio Risk • Portfolio – a collection or grouping of investment securities or assets • Efficient Portfolio 1) Maximize return for a given level of risk 2) Minimize risk for a given level of return • Portfolio Return … the expected return on a portfolio, kp, is the weighted average of the expected returns on the individual stocks in the portfolio … the portfolio weights must sum to 1.0 … the realized rate
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CONTENTS BONDS 1 STOCKS 6 OPTIONS 10 FUTURES 16 PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCE EVALUATION 20 INTERNATIONAL INVESTING 26 BONDS Page 480 –CFA Problems Questions #1 1. Leaf Products may issue a 10-year maturity fixed-income security, which might include a sinking fund provision and either refunding or call protection. a) Describe a sinking fund provision. The sinking fund provision allows the firm to repurchase a fraction of the outstanding bonds at either the market price or the sinking
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10/2011 The Main Steps of the Theory Building • Portfolio Selection (Markowitz, 1952) • CAPM (Sharpe, 1963) • Financing and Dividend Decisions Neutrality (Modigliani et Miller, 1958, 1961,1963) • Efficient Markets (Fama, 1965, 1970) • Options Pricing Theory (Black & Scholes, 1973, Myers, 1977) • Agency Theory (Jensen, Meckling, 1976) • Efficient Markets II (Fama, 1991) • Behavioural Finance (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979, Shiller, 1981, 2000) Portfolio Selection • Investors are rationals and risk averse
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‘ Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management Sharpe’s Single Index Model Practice Sheet -2 | |1. Betas of two stocks are 0.73 and 1.20 respectively. If the standard deviation of the market returns is 15.49%, the covariance between | | | |the two stock’s return is | | | |(a) 175.20(%)2 (b) 210.20(%)2 (c) 288.20(%)2 (d) 328.76(%)2 (e) 345.60(%)
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calculations. I also compared the result to the earlier analysis done based on average return, standard deviation and beta. Sharpe ratio, measures investment performance of the portfolio compared to risk taken. It’s most appropriate to use when evaluating diversified portfolios. Sharpe ratio penalizes non-diversified portfolios by also taking into account unsystematic risk. The high sharpe ratio represents the better performance for taking on additional risk. Wallflower Value Fund (WVF) shows the
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risk, is the company-specific or industry-specific risk in a portfolio, which is uncorrelated with aggregate market returns. Unsystematic risk can be mitigated through diversification, and systematic risk can not be.[1] Systematic risk should not be confused with systemic risk, the risk of loss from some catastrophic event that collapses the entire financial system. Contents [hide] * 1 Example * 2 Systematic risk and portfolio agement * 3 References * 4 See also | -------------------------------------------------
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OBJECTIVE To obtain a challenging growth oriented position where I can prove my worth to the Organization with my technical knowledge in a supportive environment. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |PERIOD |ORGANIZATION |DESIGNATION | |July 2007 – Till Date Technologies Limited |Senior Systems Engineer | SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY
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Chapter 06 Efficient Diversification 1. So long as the correlation coefficient is below 1.0, the portfolio will benefit from diversification because returns on component securities will not move in perfect lockstep. The portfolio standard deviation will be less than a weighted average of the standard deviations of the component securities. 2. The covariance with the other assets is more important. Diversification is accomplished via correlation with other assets. Covariance helps determine
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All of the models to be discussed, i.e. Markowitz, Single Index, CAPM, and APT, have one single goal that is accomplished by using them. This goal is to make a portfolio, or individual securities, as efficient and well performing as possible by finding the optimal weights, highest return, and lowest risk. The Harry Markowitz model of 1952, or the mean-variance model, was one of the earliest models created to compare and contrast securities outcomes. This model uses the weights, standard deviation
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