Question: In Problem 1, assume that Baker undergoes

> Which of the following is closest to the expected return of the client’s portfolio if 10 percent of the portfolio is invested in the New Horizon (NH) Emerging Market Fund? a. 11 percent b. 10.2 percent c. 11.8 percent

> A bond with 25 years until maturity has a coupon rate of 7.2  percent and a yield to maturity of 6 percent. What is the price of the bond?

> A bond has a coupon rate of 8.2 percent and 9 years until maturity. If the yield to maturity is 7.4 percent, what is the price of the bond?

> Rolling Company bonds have a coupon rate of 4 percent, 14 years to maturity, and a current price of $1,086. What is the YTM? The current yield?

> If, instead, the Atlantis Fisheries zero coupon bonds referred to in Problems 8 and 9 are callable in 10 years at a call price of $550, what is their yield to call?

> Aloha Inc. has 7 percent coupon bonds on the market that have 12 years left to maturity. If the YTM on these bonds is 9.1 percent, what is the current bond price?

> How much would you pay for a U.S. Treasury bill with 112 days to maturity quoted at a discount yield of 2.18 percent? Assume a $1 million face value.

> In Problem 7, what is the bond equivalent yield? Data from Problem 7: What is the price of a U.S. Treasury bill with 56 days to maturity quoted at a discount yield of 1.15 percent? Assume a $1 million face value.

> What is the price of a U.S. Treasury bill with 56 days to maturity quoted at a discount yield of 1.15 percent? Assume a $1 million face value.

> Your investments increased in value by 11.6 percent last year, but your purchasing power increased by only 7.6 percent. What was the approximate inflation rate?

> A stock had a return of 8.9 percent last year. If the inflation rate was 2.1 percent, what was the approximate real return?

> Mr. Spice wonders how a fixed-income manager could position his portfolio to capitalize on the expectation of an upward-shifting and twisting term structure. For the twist, interest rates on long-term bonds increase by more than those on shorter-term not

> What is the yield to maturity on a Treasury STRIPS with 4 years to maturity and a quoted price of 70.485?

> A Treasury STRIPS is quoted at 90.875 and has 5 years until maturity. What is the yield to maturity?

> A Treasury STRIPS matures in 7 years and has a yield to maturity of 4.4 percent. If the par value is $100,000, what is the price of the STRIPS? What is the quoted price?

> In Problem 9, what is the bond equivalent yield? Data from Problem 9: How much would you pay for a U.S. Treasury bill with 112 days to maturity quoted at a discount yield of 2.18 percent? Assume a $1 million face value.

> What is the price of a Treasury STRIPS with a face value of $100 that matures in 10 years and has a yield to maturity of 3.5 percent?

> Below you will see a stock price chart for Cisco Systems from finance.yahoo.com. Do you see any resistance or support levels? What do support and resistance levels mean for the stock price? CISCO SYSTEMS INC as of 10-Jan-2008 Splits: 36 34 32 30 28

> Suppose you are given the following information on the S&P 500: Date ………………………….…….Close 10/1/2015………………………………..1,923.82 10/2/2015 ………………………………1,951.36 10/5/2015 ……………………………..1,987.05 10/6/2015 ………………………………1,979.92 10/7/2015 ……………………………..1,995.83 10/8

> You are given the following information concerning the trades made on a particular stock. Calculate the money flow for the stock based on these trades. Is the money flow a positive or negative signal in this case? Price…………………………Volume $70.12 70.14 ………

> A group of investors was polled each week for the last five weeks about whether they were bullish or bearish concerning the market. Construct the market sentiment index for each week based on these polls. Assuming the market sentiment index is being used

> Using the stock prices in Problem 3, calculate the exponential three-month moving average for IBM and Amazon. Place 50 percent of the average weight on the most recent price. How does this exponential moving average compare to your result from Problem 4?

> For an increase of 100 basis points in the yield to maturity, by what amount would the fixed-rate bond’s price change? a. −$7.49 b. −$5.73 c. −$4.63

> Using the stock prices in Problem 3, calculate the exponential three-month moving average for both stocks where two-thirds of the average weight is placed on the most recent price. Data from Problem 3: The table below shows the closing monthly stock pr

> The table below shows the closing monthly stock prices for IBM and Amazon. Calculate the simple three-month moving average for each month for both companies. IBM………………………………………………….…..AMZN $169.64 …………………………………………………$600.36 173.29  ……………………………………………………

> Using the data in Problem 1, construct the Arms ratio on each of the five trading days. Data from Problem 1: Use the data below to construct the advance/decline line for the stock market. Volume figures are in thousands of shares. Stocks Advancin

> A stock had the following trades during a particular period. What was the money flow for the stock? Is the money flow a positive or negative signal in this case? Week Day Price Volume 1 Monday $61.85 Tuesday 61.81 1,000 Wednesday 61.82 1,400 Thurs

> Use the data below to construct the advance/decline line and Arms ratio for the market. Volume is in thousands of shares. Stocks Advancing Volume Stocks Declining Volume Advancing Declining Monday 2,530 995,111 519 111,203 Tuesday 2,429 934,531 639

> Use the data below to construct the advance/decline line for the stock market. Volume figures are in thousands of shares. Stocks Advancing Volume Stocks Declining Volume Advancing Declining Monday 1,634 825,503 1,402 684,997 Tuesday 1,876 928,360 1

> Star Light & Power increases its dividend 3.8 percent per year every year. This utility is valued using a discount rate of 9 percent, and the stock currently sells for $38 per share. If you buy a share of stock today and hold on to it for at least three

> Xytex Products just paid a dividend of $1.62 per share, and the stock currently sells for $28. If the discount rate is 10 percent, what is the dividend growth rate?

> If a firm has an EV of $750 million and EBITDA of $165 million, what is its EV ratio?

> Using your answers from Problems 3 through 5, value Lauryn’s Doll Co. assuming her FCF is expected to grow at a rate of 3 percent into perpetuity. Is this value the value of the equity?

> What is the estimated value of Country Point in a proposed spin-off? a. $144.5 million b. $162.6 million c. $178.3 million

> Lauryn’s Doll Co. had EBIT last year of $40 million, which is net of a depreciation expense of $4 million. In addition, Lauryn’s made $5 million in capital expenditures and increased net working capital by $3 million. Using the information from Problem 3

> Using your answer to Problem 3, calculate the appropriate discount rate assuming a risk-free rate of 4 percent and a market risk premium of 7 percent. Data from Problem 3: You are going to value Lauryn’s Doll Co. using the FCF model. After consulting v

> You are going to value Lauryn’s Doll Co. using the FCF model. After consulting various sources, you find that Lauryn’s has a reported equity beta of 1.4, a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.3, and a tax rate of 30 percent. Based on this information, what is the

> In Problem 1, suppose the current share price is $60. If all other information remains the same, what must the liquidating dividend be? Data from Problem 1: JJ Industries will pay a regular dividend of $2.40 per share for each of the next four years. A

> For Bill’s Bakery described in Problem 13, suppose instead that current earnings per share are $2.56. Calculate the share price for Bill’s Bakery.

> Bill’s Bakery expects earnings per share of $2.56 next year. Current book value is $4.70 per share. The appropriate discount rate for Bill’s Bakery is 11 percent. Calculate the share price for Bill’s Bakery if earnings grow at 3 percent forever.

> A certain stock has a beta of 1.3. If the risk-free rate of return is 3.2 percent and the market risk premium is 7.5 percent, what is the expected return of the stock? What is the expected return of a stock with a beta of 0.75?

> Joker stock has a sustainable growth rate of 8 percent, ROE of 14 percent, and dividends per share of $1.65. If the P/E ratio is 19, what is the value of a share of stock?

> Johnson Products earned $2.80 per share last year and paid a $1.25 per share dividend. If ROE was 14 percent, what is the sustainable growth rate?

> JJ Industries will pay a regular dividend of $2.40 per share for each of the next four years. At the end of the four years, the company will also pay out a $40 per share liquidating dividend, and the company will cease operations. If the discount rate is

> The value of beta for Country Point is: a. 1.09 b. 1.27 c. 1.00

> In Problem 5, assume the value-weighted index level was 408.16 at the beginning of the year. What is the index level at the end of the year? Data from Problem 5: Calculate the index return for the information in Problem 4 using a value-weighted index.

> In Problem 5, assume that you want to re index with the index value at the beginning of the year equal to 100. What is the index level at the end of the year? Data from Problem 5: Calculate the index return for the information in Problem 4 using a valu

> You are given the following information concerning two stocks that make up an index. What is the price-weighted return for the index? Price per Share Shares Beginning End of Outstanding of Year Year Kirk, Inc. 35,000 $37 $42 Picard Co. 26,000 84 9

> You find the following order book on a particular stock. The last trade on the stock was at $70.54. a. If you place a market buy order for 100 shares, at what price will it be filled? b. If you place a market sell order for 200 shares, at what price

> Able, Baker, and Charlie are the only three stocks in an index. The stocks sell for $93, $312, and $78, respectively. If Baker undergoes a 2-for-1 stock split, what is the new divisor for the price-weighted index?

> A closed-end fund has total assets of $240 million and liabilities of $110,000. Currently, 11 million shares are outstanding. What is the NAV of the fund? If the shares currently sell for $19.25, what is the premium or discount on the fund?

> The largest expected loss for a portfolio is −20 percent with a probability of 95 percent. Relate this statement to the Value-at-Risk statistic.

> Explain the meaning of a Value-at-Risk statistic in terms of a smallest expected loss and the probability of such a loss.

> What is meant by a Sharpe-optimal portfolio?

> Given Ms. Nguyen’s estimate of Country Point’s terminal value in 2014, what is the growth assumption she must have used for free cash flow after 2014? a. 7 percent b. 9 percent c. 3 percent

> What are one advantage and one disadvantage of the Sharpe ratio?

> Explain the relationship between Jensen’s alpha and the security market line (SML) of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).

> What is a common weakness of Jensen’s alpha and the Treynor ratio?

> Most sources report alphas and other metrics relative to a standard benchmark, such as the S&P 500. When might this method be an inappropriate comparison?

> A Treasury bond that settles on October 18, 2016, matures on March 30, 2035. The coupon rate is 5.30 percent and the bond has a 4.45 percent yield to maturity. What are the Macaulay duration and modified duration?

> A bond that settles on June 7, 2016, matures on July 1, 2036, and may be called at any time after July 1, 2026, at a price of 105. The coupon rate on the bond is 6 percent and the price is 115.00. What are the yield to maturity and yield to call on this

> A Treasury bond that settles on August 10, 2016, matures on April 15, 2021. The coupon rate is 4.5 percent and the quoted price is 106:17. What is the bond’s yield to maturity?

> Explain the difference between the Sharpe ratio and the Treynor ratio.

> You have a car loan with a nominal rate of 5.99 percent. With interest charged monthly, what is the effective annual rate (EAR) on this loan?

> A Treasury bill that settles on May 18, 2016, pays $100,000 on August 21, 2016. Assuming a discount rate of 0.44 percent, what are the price and bond equivalent yield?

> You have been given the following return information for two mutual funds (Papa and Mama), the market index, and the risk-free rate. Calculate the Sharpe ratio, Treynor ratio, Jensen’s alpha, information ratio, and R-squared for both

> You are given the following information concerning a stock and the market: Calculate the average return and standard deviation for the market and the stock. Next, calculate the correlation between the stock and the market, as well as the stockâ&#1

> You are constructing a portfolio of two assets. Asset A has an expected return of 12 percent and a standard deviation of 24 percent. Asset B has an expected return of 18 percent and a standard deviation of 54 percent. The correlation between the two asse

> Suppose the CAC-40 Index (a widely followed index of French stock prices) is currently at 4,920, the expected dividend yield on the index is 2 percent per year, and the risk-free rate in France is 6 percent annually. If CAC-40 futures contracts that expi

> You shorted 15 March 2016 British pound futures contracts at the high price for the day. Looking back at Figure 14.1, if you closed your position at the settle price on this day, what was your profit? Figure 14.1: Futures Contracts|WSJ.com/commodit

> You went long 20 June 2016 crude oil futures contracts at a price of $42.18. Looking back at Figure 14.1, if you closed your position at the settle price on this day, what was your profit? Figure 14.1: Futures Contracts|WSJ.com/commoditles Metal &

> What are the Sharpe and Treynor ratios for the fund? Data for Problem 19: You have been given the following return information for a mutual fund, the market index, and the risk-free rate. You also know that the return correlation between th

> Your portfolio allocates equal amounts to three stocks. All three stocks have the same mean annual return of 14 percent. Annual return standard deviations for these three stocks are 30 percent, 40 percent, and 50 percent. The return correlations among al

> Mr. Spice asks Mr. Myers how a fixed-income manager would position his portfolio to capitalize on his expectations of increasing interest rates. Which of the following would be the most appropriate strategy? a. Lengthen the portfolio duration. b. Buy fix

> Using the same return means and standard deviations as in Problem 15 for Tyler Trucks and Michael Moped Manufacturing stocks, but assuming a return correlation of −.5, what is the smallest expected loss for your portfolio in the coming month with a proba

> Tyler Trucks stock has an annual return mean and standard deviation of 10 percent and 26 percent, respectively. Michael Moped Manufacturing stock has an annual return mean and standard deviation of 18 percent and 62 percent, respectively. Your portfolio

> A stock has an annual return of 11 percent and a standard deviation of 54 percent. What is the smallest expected loss over the next year with a probability of 1 percent? Does this number make sense?

> What is the formula for the Sharpe ratio for a portfolio of stocks and bonds with equal expected returns, i.e., E(RS) = E(RB), and a zero return correlation?

> What is the formula for the Sharpe ratio for an equally weighted portfolio of stocks and bonds?

> Look back at Problem 1. Assume that Able undergoes a 1-for-2 reverse stock split. What is the new divisor? Data from Problem 1: Able, Baker, and Charlie are the only three stocks in an index. The stocks sell for $93, $312, and $78, respectively. If Bak

> The beta for a certain stock is 1.15, the risk-free rate is 5 percent, and the expected return on the market is 13 percent. Complete the following table to decompose the stock’s return into the systematic return and the unsystematic ret

> Show that another way to calculate beta is to take the covariance between the security and the market and divide by the variance of the market’s return.

> Stock Y has a beta of 1.05 and an expected return of 13 percent. Stock Z has a beta of 0.70 and an expected return of 9 percent. If the risk-free rate is 5 percent and the market risk premium is 7 percent, are these stocks correctly priced?

> Derive our expression in the chapter for the portfolio weight in the minimum variance portfolio. (Danger! Calculus required!)

> The return calculation method most appropriate for evaluating the performance of a portfolio manager is a. Holding period b. Geometric c. Money-weighted (or dollar-weighted)

> Using the result in Problem 23, show that whenever two assets have perfect negative correlation, it is possible to find a portfolio with a zero standard deviation. What are the portfolio weights? (Hint: Let x be the percentage in the first asset and (1 &

> Suppose two assets have perfect negative correlation. Show that the standard deviation on a portfolio of the two assets is simply: op = ±(X, X o, ーX

> Suppose two assets have perfect positive correlation. Show that the standard deviation on a portfolio of the two assets is simply: Op = X, X 0, + Xg × OB

> You have a three-stock portfolio. Stock A has an expected return of 12 percent and a standard deviation of 41 percent, stock B has an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 58 percent, and stock C has an expected return of 13 percent a

> The stock of Bruin, Inc., has an expected return of 14 percent and a standard deviation of 42 percent. The stock of Wildcat Co. has an expected return of 12 percent and a standard deviation of 57 percent. The correlation between the two stocks is .25. Is

> Asset K has an expected return of 10 percent and a standard deviation of 28 percent. Asset L has an expected return of 7 percent and a standard deviation of 18 percent. The correlation between the assets is .40. What are the expected return and standard

> What are the expected return and standard deviation of the minimum variance portfolio in Problem 16? Data from Problem 16: Consider two stocks, stock D, with an expected return of 13 percent and a standard deviation of 31 percent, and stock I, an inter

> Consider two stocks, stock D, with an expected return of 13 percent and a standard deviation of 31 percent, and stock I, an international company, with an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 42 percent. The correlation between the t

> Fill in the missing information assuming a correlation of .30. Portfollo Welghts Stocks Bonds Expected Return Standard Devlatlon 1.00 12% 21% .80 .60 .40 .20 .00 7% 12%

> In Problem 12, what are the expected return and standard deviation on the minimum variance portfolio? Data from Problem 12: Use the following information to calculate the expected return and standard deviation of a portfolio that is 50 percent invested

> Ms. Yamisaka has determined that the average monthly return of another Mega client was 1.63 percent during the past year. What is the annualized rate of return? a. 5.13 percent b. 19.56 percent c. 21.41 percent

> Use the following information to calculate the expected return and standard deviation of a portfolio that is 50 percent invested in 3 Doors, Inc., and 50 percent invested in Down Co.: 3 Doors, Inc. Down Co. Expected return, E(R) 14% 10% Standard d

> Given the following information, calculate the expected return and standard deviation for a portfolio that has 35 percent invested in stock A, 45 percent in stock B, and the balance in stock C. Returns Probablity of State of Economy State of Econom

> You find that the one-, two-, three-, and four-year interest rates are 4.2 percent, 4.5 percent, 4.9 percent, and 5.1 percent. What is the yield to maturity of a four year bond with an annual coupon rate of 6.5 percent? Hint: Use the bootstrapping techni

> One method used to obtain an estimate of the term structure of interest rates is called bootstrapping. Suppose you have a one-year zero coupon bond with a rate of r1 and a two-year bond with an annual coupon payment of C. To bootstrap the two-year rate,