Your client's investment portfolio is 50% growth stocks, 10% foreign stocks and 40% blue chip stocks. If the client is interested in further diversification which mutual fund would best meet that goal? Aggressive growth fund. Emerging market fund.
Answer:
They would need to have at least 3 computers
Explanation:
According to the given data we have the following:
Arrival rate = 15 persons per hour
Servicing rate = 60 / 10 = 6 persons per hour with one computer
Servicing rate with x number of computers = 6x per hour
Servicing rate at 90% utilisation = 6x (0.90) = 5.40x per hour
Therefore to service 13 arrivals per hour, we will need x computers = 15/ 5.40 = 2.78
With 2 computers, the service capacity will be 12 per hour and the utilisation will be 15/12 = 125%, which exceeds the organiser’s standard of 90% utilization.
With 3 computers, the service capacity increases to 18 persons per hour. If only 13 persons arrive, the utilisation rate will be 15 / 18 = 83.33%, below the required maximum of 90% utilisation.
Therefore, the 2.78 can be rounded off to next whole number 3 computers
Answer: The correct answer is "2. Taking into account external reasons for the recent underperformance of a good salesperson".
Explanation: Knowledge should be applied in cases such as this, since in front of an employee who has poor performance we must take into account the external reasons that influence him and his performance, such as family problems, the death of a family member, etc.
A method that a home inspector uses in report writing.
The question is incomplete. Here is the complete question:
The following annual returns for Stock E are projected over the next year for three possible states of the economy. What is the stock’s expected return and standard deviation of returns? E(R) = 8.5% ; σ = 22.70%; mean = $7.50; standard deviation = $2.50
State Prob E(R)
Boom 10% 40%
Normal 60% 20%
Recession
30% - 25%
Answer:
The expected return of the stock E(R) is 8.5%.
The standard deviation of the returns is 22.7%
Explanation:
<u>Expected return</u>
The expected return of the stock can be calculated by multiplying the stock's expected return E(R) in each state of economy by the probability of that state.
The expected return E(R) = (0.4 * 0.1) + (0.2 * 0.6) + (-0.25 * 0.3)
The expected return E(R) = 0.04 + 0.12 -0.075 = 0.085 or 8.5%
<u>Standard Deviation of returns</u>
The standard deviation is a measure of total risk. It measures the volatility of the stock's expected return. The standard deviation (SD) of a stock's return can be calculated by using the following formula:
SD = √(rA - E(R))² * (pA) + (rB - E(R))² * (pB) + ... + (rN - E(R))² * (pN)
Where,
- rA, rB to rN is the return under event A, B to N.
- pA, pB to pN is the probability of these events to occur
- E(R) is the expected return of the stock
Here, the events are the state of economy.
So, SD = √(0.4 - 0.085)² * (0.1) + (0.2 - 0.085)² * (0.6) + (-0.25 - 0.085)² * (0.3)
SD = 0.22699 or 22.699% rounded off to 22.70%
