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You purchased 1,000 shares of the New Fund at a price of $20 per share at the beginning of the year. You paid a front-end load of 4%. The securities in which the fund invests increase in value by 12
Assume that the maturity risk premium is zero. What is the yield on 2 year Treasury securities? What is the yield on 3 year Treasury securities?
The maturity risk premium is estimated to be 0.05*(t-1)%, where t = number of years to maturity. What is the yield on a 7 year Treasury note?
Johnson informs IMI that he wants the standard deviation of the portfolio to equal half of the standard deviation for the market portfolio. Using the capital market line, what expected return can IM
Suppose that another portfolio, portfolio E, is well diversified with a beta of .6 and expected return of 8%. Would an arbitrage opportunity exist? If so, what would be the arbitrage strategy?
The real risk free rate is 3 percent, and inflation is expected to be 3 percent for the next 2 years. A 2 year Treasury security yields 6.2 percent. What is the maturity risk premium for the 2 ye
Calculate expected excess returns, alpha values, and residual variances for these stocks. Construct the optimal risky portfolio. What is Sharpe's measure for the optimal portfolio and how much of it i
A stock has a beta of 1.26 and an expected return of 14.8percent. The risk-free rate is 3.6 percent. What is the slope of the security market line?
Discuss the situation in which corporations have to choose trade-off theory of capital structure in order to optimize their overall value.
When it was selling for 99.8 percent of par. Today, you sold this bond for 100.5 percent of par. What is your total dollar return on this investment?
Immediately after she purchased them, interest rates fell and each then had a new YTM of 7 percent. What is the percentage change in price for each bond after the decline in interest rates?
Suppose you find that prices of stocks before large dividend increases show on average consistently positive abnormal returns. Is this a violation of the EMH?
You are interested in creating a portfolio of two stocks - Coca Cola and Texas Utilities. Over the last decade, an investment in Coca Cola stock would have earned an average annual return of 25% wit
Clover Dairy's stock has a beta of 0.80. Ifthe risk-free rate is 4.00%, what is the required rate of return on Clover's stock?
Estimate the average annual return you would have made on your investment. Estimate the standard deviation and variance in the annual returns.
Alicia paid the real estate taxes of $4,380 for the calendar year. For income tax purposes, the deduction is apportioned as follows: $2,160 to Alice and $2,220 to Rick. What is Rick's basis in the
Which of the following is not a primary reason why corporations invest in debt and equity securities?
Stan Free Company sells debt investments costing $26,000 for $28,000 plus accrued interest that has been recorded. In journalizing the sale, credits are:
The company recently purchasedpreferred stock in another company. The preferred stock has an 8%before-tax yield. What is Van Dyke's after-tax yield on the preferred stock?
A company with a 39% taxrate buys preferred stock in another company. The preferred stockhas a before-tax yield of 9%. What is the preferred stock's after-tax return?
It ended the year with$155,000 of retained earnings versus the prior year'sretained earnings of $159,600. How much net income did the firmearn during the year?
The before-tax dividend yield on the preferredstock is 13%. What is the company's after-tax return on the preferred, assuming a 70% dividend exclusion?
The equity method of accounting for long-term investments in stock should be used when the investor has significant influence over an investee and owns:
Dave signed a $7,855 note at a bank that charges a 14.2% discount rate. If the loan is for 190 days, find the effective rate of interest.
If a company wants to increase its reported income by manipulating its investment accounts, which should it do?