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 fund price (usually set at par), depending on the structure of the provision. The provision may be for a specific number of bonds or a percentage of the bond issue. The bonds selected for repurchase are generally selected at random
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NAV = Market value of assets - liabilities Shares outstanding HPR(Funds) = Income Dist. +Capital Gain Dist. +Ending NAV-Beginning NAV)Beginning NAV Portfolio Turnover = ($ Sold & Repurchased)Average Daily Assets Tax Efficiency = Tax-Adjusted ReturnPre-Tax Return Average Holding Period = 12 months / (portfolio turnover/100) HPR = (Ending Price-Beginning Price+Cash Divi.)Beginning Price Arithmetic Mean = Simple Average = (R1 + R2 + …+ Rn) /n Geometric
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to Senior Market Specialist for the Eastern Region. He was working in the company for a short period of time, though, despite being account executive for about 6 years in his previous work, the way he was promoted wasn’t clear and didn’t respect the office politics. Looking through the TG path to Senior Market Specialist (SMS) we observe that when an account executive is interested in joining the marketing team, the office politics says that usually first the person moves to a market specialist
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factors specific to an industry like labor unions, product category, research and development, pricing, or marketing On the other hand, systematic risk occurs when fluctuations of the stocks returns are changed because of market wide news (Jonathan Berk, 2010, p. 353). These market factors may include situations such as war, inflation, international incidents, or political events. It may be eliminated through diversification and the combination of a security’s non-diversifiable risk and diversifiable
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which is greater than the minimum acceptable hurdle rate. Hurdle Rate = Risk-Free Rate + Risk Premium Beta of a security or a portfolio helps in analyzing the volatility or systematic risk of the particular stock or portfolio in relation to the market as a whole. The value of the Beta is used in The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). The CAPM is a model which helps in understanding the relationship between the expected return and risk of a security or a portfolio and thus helps in the pricing
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1 1) Leverage and risk. This question examines leverage. It is in the context of a personal investment in a home. However, the basic idea applies generally to investments made with borrowed money. (10) With your Masters from the University of Queensland in hand you have decided to purchase an apartment in Spring Hill. The apartment costs $200,000. A) I have calculated the percentage return on the apartment as a function of possible apartment prices next year (2nd row of the table). Apartment
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estimate WACC. Analysis of Facts: I do not completely agree with Joanna Cohen’s calculation of WACC. There are several problems in her calculation: • Instead of using market value of debt and equity to estimate the cost of capital, she used the book value. While the book value of debt is accepted as an estimate of market value, book value of equity should not be used when calculating cost of capital. • Another problem is the estimation of cost of debt. Cohen calculated it by taking total interest
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M.I.T. Sloan School of Management Spring 1999 15.415 First Half Summary Present Values • Basic Idea: We should discount future cash flows. The appropriate discount rate is the opportunity cost of capital. • Net Present Value: The net present value of a stream of yearly cash flows is N P V = C0 + C1 C2 Cn + + ··· + , 2 1 + r1 (1 + r2 ) (1 + rn )n where rn is the n year discount rate. • Monthly Rate: The monthly rate, x, is x = (1 + EAR) 12 − 1, where EAR is the effective annual rate. The EAR
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how capital market data and asset pricing model(s) can be used to estimate the cost of capital (or the required rate of return) for real investments. You do NOT have to write a formal report, but you should provide concise answers with all the assumptions stated clearly for the questions given below. * Estimate stock returns from prices by adjusting for stock splits and stock dividends * Use the EXCEL to estimate stock betas from regression models using the appropriate market returns
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dollar coupon; “FV” is Face or par value, which is $1,000; “t” is remaining years to maturity. “P 0” is current market price of bond. Note: If the bond pays semi-annual coupon, divide “C” by 2; multiply “t” by 2; and multiply answer (R d) by 2. * Cost of Preferred Stock (R p): Rp=DIVPSP0 Where: DIV is $ preferred stock dividend; or dividend yield x PAR. P 0 is current market price of preferred stock. Note: Par value of preferred stock is $100. * Cost of Equity (Re) 1.
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