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:
a. are the rates of return on a company's capital stock.
Explanation:
Dividends are are earnings distributed to company's share holders as a result of the shares held by them in the company.
When a company is formed I.e company quoted on the stock exchange, they are usually financed by shareholder's fund.
A share is the unit of capital of a company allocated to an individual while a shareholder is someone who has share(s) in the company. Shareholders are owners of the company. They are also investors and so they expect returns on their investment at the end of each financial period.
These returns are paid to the share holders as dividened which are the rates of returns on a company's capital stock.
Answer: 2 years
Explanation:
The payback period is the amount of time that is needed for the required cash inflow of a project to offset the initial cash outflow that the business offsets. The payback period is when the initial outlay of an investment is recovered. There are two different methods used to calculate payback period. We have the average method and the subtraction method.
In the above question, the payback period is solved as follows:
Labour cost decreases by 10% for each unit.
Therefore,
= $10 × 10%
= $10 × 0.1
= $1 per unit.
In order to recover $2000, the business needs to sell the following;
= 2000/1
= 2000units.
If Eric sells 1000 units per year of Emu, it will take:
2000/1000= 2years
In conclusion, the payback period of the investment is 2 years.
Answer:
What is the Value of Bank Deposits?
bank deposits = bank reserves / required reserve ratio = $200 / 20% = $1,000
What is the Money Supply?
money supply = bank deposits + currency held by the public = $1,000 + $1,00 = $2,000
Suppose that the Fed sells $50 worth of bonds in an "open market sale." Assuming that the public does not wish to change the amount of currency it holds, what is the new money supply after this open market purchase?
if the FED sells $50 worth of bonds, money supply will decrease by $50 x (1 / 20%) = $50 x 5 = $250
total money supply = $2,000 - $250 = $1,750
Answer:
d. $2,676
Explanation:
The computation of the horizontal value is shown below:
FCF1 = (100 × 1.06) = 106
FCF2 = (106 × 1.06) = 112.36
FCF3 = (112.36 × 1.06) = 119.1016
FCF4 = (119.1016 × 1.06) = 126.247696
FCF5 = (126.247696 × 1.06) = 133.8225578
Now
Horizon value is
= FCF5 ÷ (Cost of capital - Growth rate)
= 133.8225578 ÷ (0.08 - 0.03)
= $2,676
Hence, the correct option is d.
