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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A) would like to hedge its $5 million exotic insurance portfolio by using S&P 500 futures. Having heard about your excellent grades in the Derivatives class, Berkshire chairman Warren E. Buffett has hired you as a consultant to help construct this hedging trade. Mr. Buffett believes that the correlation between the returns of his insurance portfolio and that of index futures is -0.52. He also provides you that the standard deviation of the returns of the insurance portfolio and index futures is 5% and 2% respectively. Assuming that one contract of index futures has a value of $180,000 today, how many contracts should Mr. Buffett buy or sell for the best hedge?
Moogle, Inc. is in the same business as Google, Inc., but has recently retired all its debt to become an all-equity firm. Its return on equity has dropped from 12.25% to 10.60% as a result of this
Scott Investors, Inc., is considering the purchase of a $360,000 computer with an economic life of five years. The computer will be fully depreciated over five years using the straight-line method. The market value of the computer will be $60,000 in ..
Stock R has a beta of 1.1, Stock S has a beta of 0.60, the expected rate of return on an average stock is 8%, and the risk-free rate is 5%. By how much does the required return on the riskier stock exceed the required return on the riskier stock exce..
Apple just completed a large, Swiss Franc denominated bond sale. In the discussion board for this topic, explain why a company that has almost $200 billion in cash would decide to issue bonds and why they would choose to use Swiss Franc denominated b..
The price of garden designs, Inc. is now $85 . The company pays no dividends. Sean Perth expects the price for years from now to be $125 a share. Should Sean by Garden designs if you want to 15% rate of return? Explain
Has there been any new legislation passed to encourage banks to lend? How about consumer protection legislation?
A city has decided to build a softball complex and the city council has already voted to fund the project at the level of $800,000 (initial capital equipment). The city engineer has collected the following financial information for the complex projec..
Review the readings and media for this unit, including the Anthony's Orchard case study media. Familiarise yourself with the Anthony's Orchard company and its current situation.
On 3 August 2011 Ross Creek Ltd declared and paid a dividend of $10000 from profits earned prior to its acquisition by Sebastopol Ltd. The directors consider that the value of the investment in Ross Creek Ltd has been impaired and have adjusted the p..
Suppose the dividends for the Seger Corporation over the past six years were $1.51, $1.59, $1.68, $1.76, $1.86, and $1.91, respectively. Compute the expected share price at the end of 2014 using the perpetual growth method.
A thirty-year U.S. Treasury bond has a 4.0 percent interest rate. In contrast, a ten-year Treasury bond has an interest rate of 2.5 percent. A maturity risk premium is estimated to be 0.2 percentage points for the longer maturity bond. Investors expe..
What would be your annual return (interest compounded annually) if you paid $10,000 for a stock that paid a $400 annual dividend, and sold the stock 12 years later for $22,000?
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