Priest J. Gordon FIN 6300 – Managerial Finance West Texas A&M University Spring 2013 Diversification 1. According to the article, what is a personal beta? (4 points) A personal beta is one’s professional sensitivity to the stock market. 2. List one job you think would create the highest personal betas (4 points) and one job that would create the lowest personal betas(4 points). Briefly explain your choices. (4 points) A commission stock broker or financial advisor would have an extremely high
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FIN 475 Spring 2014 Cases in Financial Management Case 2 Prepared For Dr. Haskins By Kaylynn Burgess, Cody Jochim, and Richard Caldecott February 20, 2014 1. The case gave a table that had the rate or return under certain conditions and from that we found the expected returns, standard deviations, and coefficients of variations for the assets. For the expected returns we took the probability and multiplied that by the rate of return for each type of economy, and then added them all up
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Efficient Portfolio Construction ------------------------------------------------- Prepared For: Pallabi Siddique Assistant Professor Department of Finance University of Dhaka ------------------------------------------------- Prepared By: Yasir bin yousuf
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Pardalos (1997) defines multifactor model as a financial model which uses multiple factors during computation to explain a given market phenomena or at a given equilibrium market prices. The model is also useful in explaining both the individual and portfolio market securities. This is capable through comparison of two or more factors which are being analyzed to determine the relationship between the securities performance and the variables. Formula can be used to express the relationship Return on equity
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gives: . The problem with this is determining marginal utility. In many cases, the SDF is a linear function of a factor (CAPM): That factor f captures when returns in situation A may be more pleasant than the same returns in situation B. Portfolio theory (Risk & return: theory – empirics) Uses assumption A1 and A2, and more: Investors: A3. Agents maximize utility, and do so for 1 period. (Rationality: agents are capable to find the very best solution for their problem, and are willing
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Investment Portfolio Project University of Phoenix Introduction needs to go here | | |5 Yr Average | | | |Return | |T-bond |25% |0.02 | |Microsoft |20% |-0.33 | |Time Warner |10% |0.11 | |Disney |20% |0.02 | |Motorola |10% |-0
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FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Introduction The household has two sources of income namely the husband earning $100,000 per year as a middle level manager in a fortune 500 Company and the wife who is an attorney and also earns $100,000 per year. The couple has no children and as such they do not have expenses such as school fees, upbringing costs for the children. The couple is middle aged and as such their appetite to risk is
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Australian School of Business School of Banking and Finance FINS 2624 Portfolio Management Course Outline Semester 2, 2012 Part A: Course-Specific Information Part B: Key Policies, Student Responsibilities and Support Table of Contents 0 PART A: COURSE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION 1 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 3 STAFF CONTACT DETAILS COURSE DETAILS Teaching Times and Locations Units of Credit Summary of Course Course Aims and Relationship to Other Courses Student Learning Outcomes LEARNING AND TEACHING
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avoided through diversification. Whereas this type of risk affects a broad range of securities, unsystematic risk affects a very specific group of securities or an individual security. Systematic risk can be mitigated only by being hedged. Even a portfolio of well-diversified assets cannot escape all risk. ________________________________________________________________________________ Definition of 'Unsystematic Risk' Company or industry specific risk that is inherent in each investment. The amount
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* (portfolio risk) Total risk= diversifiable + non-diversifiable * Standard deviation measures total risk * Beta coefficient measures systematic risk (Non-diversifiable risk) * High beta, high risk * Which component can be reduced (diversified away)? How? * Diversifiable risk * Eliminates unsystematic risk and reduces total risk * Correlation and the ranges between -1 and 1 * Systematic risk is reduced through portfolio diversification
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