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A.
i. Choose a publicly traded company and carefully review the annual report and financial statements. Companies which you may NOT use are; Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, Google, Yahoo, or Apple. Provide a web link to the company financial information which you used. After you have reviewed the information, calculate, showing your work, three measures in each category of; ROI, Liquidity, Profitability, Activity, and Financial Leverage. Interpret your category findings and discuss the financial condition of your company.
ii. Fabozzi (2011) poses the questions below that should be addressed for your discussion and post a reply to at least one other student.If the target duration for a portfolio is more than the current portfolio's duration, how can the portfolio manager use:
1. A Treasury bond future contracts to change the portfolio's timing to be in sync with the target timing?
2. Interest rate swaps to increase the portfolio timing to bring it in sync with the target timing?
Reading background material:
• Corporate financing and valuation. (2008). In Corporate finance.
• Fabozzi, F.J. (2011). Interest rate derivatives and risk control. In H. Markowitz, & F.F. Fabozzi (Eds.), The theory and practice of investment management: Asset allocation, valuation, portfolio construction and strategies (pp. 623-646). Retrieved from EBSCO eBook Collection in the Touro library.
• Fabozzi, F.J., & Drake, P.P. (2009). Basics of financial analysis. In Finance: Capital markets, financial management, and investment management (pp. 57-105). Retrieved from EBSCO eBook Collection in the Touro library.
• Faure, A.P. (2013). Valuation. In Equity market: An introduction.
B.
i. Read pages 12-14 of the book "Modeling Risk", specifically the "Uncertainty Versus Risk" section.Provide an analysis over the differences between Uncertainty and Risk. Use specific examples as it pertains to your own budgeting experiences in your personal life
ii. Read pages 14-16 of the book "Modeling Risk", specifically the "Why is Risk Important in Making Decisions" section. Elaborate on one point made within the reading
Attachment:- Review the annual report and financial statements.rar