Answer:
Risk and Return
1. Joe is an average investor. His financial advisor gave him options of investing in stock A, with a σ of 12%, and stock B, with a σ of 9%. Both stocks have the same expected return of 16%. Joe can pick only one stock and decides to invest in stock B.
Good Financial Decision?
Yes
No
2. Marcie works for an educational technology firm that recently launched its employee stock option plan (ESOP). Marcie allocated all her investments in the ESOP.
Good Financial Decision?
Yes
No
3. rin wants to invest in a hedge fund that has had a very strong performance track record. The hedge fund has given its investors a return of over 60% for the past five years. Although Erin is tempted to put her money in the fund, she decides to conduct due diligence on the hedge fund’s assets, because she is aware that past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Good Financial Decision?
Yes
No
Explanation:
1. Joe's decision to invest in stock B is a good financial decision. Since both investments have the same returns, the decision on which investment to take shifts to the standard deviation of the returns, which specifies the variability of the returns. Invariably, the investment with less standard deviation should win the vote. Therefore, Joe's decision is a good financial decision because investment in B has a standard deviation of 9% unlike A's 12%.
2. Putting all eggs in one market as Marcie had done by allocating all her investments in the ESOP is not a good financial decision, theoretically. It is always best to spread the risks, though higher-yielding investments (returns) bear higher risks.
3. The decision of Erin to conduct due diligence on the hedge fund's assets, despite its past performance is a good financial decision. Due diligence reveals some behind-the-scene information that are instrumental in making sound business decisions. Who are the present managers of the fund? What systems are in place in the entity to guarantee similar future performance, all things being equal? What market's sentiments and information are available for consideration? These questions, and many others can be answered through a due diligence. Surely, "past performance is no guarantee of future results."
Answer:
1. $34 million
2. $0
Explanation:
Given that,
Fair value of Centerpoint Inc = $256 million
Book value of Centerpoint's net assets (excluding goodwill) = $228 million
Book value of Centerpoint's net assets (including goodwill) = 290 million
1. Actual Value of Goodwill:
= Fair Value of Centrepoint Inc. - Book Value of Net assets (excluding goodwill)
= $256 million - 228 million
= $28 million
Loss on Impairment of Goodwill:
= Goodwill recorded - Actual value of goodwill
= $62 million - $28 million
= $34 million
2. In this case Fair value of ($318 million) is more than Book value ($290 million) then there will be no Impairment Loss.
It means that the loss on Impairment of Goodwill = $0.
Answer: Sky's effective interest rate on this loan is 8.39%.
In this question, we assume that interest is compounded annually.
Since Sky issues a non-interest bearing note, Star Finance will deduct 7 months' interest at 8% on the Face Value of the loan and pay the rest as principal to Sky.
Face value of the note $16 million
Discount Rate p.a 8%
Tenure of the note 7 months
[tex]Loan Amount received by Sky = Face Value - Discount on note[/tex]
So, Sky pays an interest of 0.746666667 on a sum of 15.25333333 for 7 months. This works out to a seven month interest of:
From this we can work out the effective interest rate for Sky as follows:
Answer:
The correct answer would be, 10 Persons.
Explanation:
If there are 1000 people in the Big Bucks lottery and there is a 1 percent chance of winning 10 dollars prize if all 1000 people buy the lottery ticket of 10 dollars. If every person buys 10 dollar lottery ticket, then the chances of winning people would be calculated as follows:
Total number of People = 1000
Chances of winning the lottery = 1%
So How many people would win 10 dollar lottery = 1000 * 1%
= 1000 * 0.01
= 10 People.
So there are chances that 10 out of 1000 people will win the lottery.
Answer:
a.
3.51%
b.
0%
Explanation:
a.
First, we need to calculate the YTM of 6 months zero-coupon bond by using the following formula
Price = Face value / ( 1 + YTM )^numbers of years
96.79 = 100 / ( 1 + YTM )^1
1 + YTM = 100 / 96.79
1 + YTM = 1.0331646
Now calculate the YTM of 1 Year zero-coupon bond
93.51 = 100 / ( 1 + YTM )^1
YTM = 1.0331646 - 1
YTM = 0.0331646
YTM = 3.31646%
YTM = 3.316%
1 + YTM = 100 / 93.51
1 + YTM = 1.06940
YTM = 1.06940 - 1
YTM = 0.06940
YTM = 6.940%
YTM = 6.94%
Hence the forward rate is calculated as follow
Forward rate = [ (1 + YTM of 1 year zero coupon bond ) / ( 1 + YTM of 6 months year zero coupon bond ) ] - 1 = ( 1 + 6.94% ) / ( 1 + 3.316% ) = [ 1.0694 / 1.03316 ] - 1 = 1.03508 - 1 = 0.03508 = 3.508% = 3.51%
b.
At the time of inception the formward rate is 0.
