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A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are: Expected Return Standard Deviation Stock fund (S) 15 % 32 % Bond fund (B) 9 % 23 % The correlation between the fund returns is 0.15. a. What would be the investment proportions of your portfolio if you were limited to only the stock and bond funds? Investment Proportions Stocks % Bonds % b. Calculate the standard deviation of the portfolio which yields an expected return of 12%. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Standard deviation %
Bank Y has an inventory of 14-year zero-coupon bonds with a face value of $400 million. The bonds currently are yielding 8.5 percent in the over-the-counter market. a. What is the modified duration of these bonds? b. What is the price volatility if t..
Balanced Scorecard Several years ago, United Parcel Service (UPS) believed that the Internet was going to change the parcel delivery market and would require UPS to become a more nimble and customer-focused organization. Customer satisfaction index—a..
A man invested in 500 shares of a local business stock selling for $15.75 a share. A while later he sold half of his shares at $17.25. Calculate his investment rate of return and his capital gain.
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Agencies such as Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard and Poor’s rate the default risk of various municipal and corporate bonds. While their rating systems are proprietary, it is widely known that they rely on financial ratios as key inputs to their bond rat..
Yield to maturity A firm's bonds have a maturity of 14 years with a $1,000 face value, have an 11% semiannual coupon, are callable in 7 years at $1,227, and currently sell at a price of $1,388.96. What is their nominal yield to maturity? Round your a..
CCC Corp has a beta of 1.5 and is currently in equilibrium. The required rate of return on the stock is 12.00% versus a required return on an average stock of 10.00%. Now the required return on an average stock increases by 30.0% (not percentage poin..
General Mills has a $1,000 par value, 12-year bond outstanding with an annual coupon rate of 3.60 percent per year, paid semi-annually. Market interest rates on similar bonds are 12.70 percent. Calculate the bond's price today.
Let X be a normally distributed random variable with mean µ = −2 and standard deviation σ = 3.2. You will need to use a Z-score table or your calculator for this problem. Find a symmetric interval about the mean so that you can be 97% sure that X lie..
As one of several advisors to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, you have been asked to submit a memo in connection with the average maturity of the obligations of the federal government. The basic premise is that the average maturity is far too sho..
Suppose that put options on a stock with strike prices $45 and $55 cost $2 and $9, respectively. Use these options to create a bear spread. At what stock price at maturity will you break even? In other words, at what stock price, will you make $0 pro..
A small furniture manufacturer produces tables and chairs. Each product must go through three stages of the manufacturing process: assembly, finishing, and inspection. Each table requires 3 hours of assembly, 2 hours of finishing, and 1.5 hour of ins..
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