Question 1. Determine the value at the end of four years of a $10,000 investment (today) in a bank certificate of deposit (CD) that pays a nominal annual interest rate of 12 percent, compounded.
Do this for:
- semi-annual
- Quarterly
- Monthly
Question 2. Explain how diversification can reduce the risk of a portfolio of assets to below the weighted average of the risk of the individual assets.