Risk and return are most important concepts in finance. Risk and return concepts are basic to the understanding of the valuation of assets or securities. Return expresses the amount which an investor actually earned on an investment during a certain period. Return includes the interest‚ dividend and capital gains: while risk represents the uncertainty associated with a particular task. In financial terms‚ risk is the chance or probability that a certain investment may or may not deliver the actual/expected
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2011-2012 and FY 2010-11. Compute annualized return and risk. DATA | ANNUALIZED RETURN | ANNUALIZED RISK | Weekly | -16.952 | 36.449 | Daily | -16.241 | 39.347 | Monthly | -11.21 | 30.209 | Comparing this with a suitable peer company‚ Company | Annualized return | Annualized risk | JSP | -11.2154 | 30.209 | TATA STEEL | -4.0020 | 47.202 | OBSERVATION As can be seen from the observations above‚ the stock which gives the maximum return also comes with the maximum risk (TATA STEEL)
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40) Consider the following statements when answering this question; I. Whenever the marginal product of labor curve is a downward sloping curve‚ the average product of labor curve is also a downward sloping curve that lies above the marginal product of labor curve. II. If a firm uses only labor to produce‚ and the production function is given by a straight line‚ then the marginal product of labor always equals the average product of labor as labor employment expands. A) I is true‚ and II is
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1.1 INTRODUCTION Every investment is characterised by return and risk. The concept of risk is intuitively understood by investors. In general‚ it refers to the possibility of incurring a loss in a financial transaction. But risk involves much more than that. The word ‘risk’ has a definite financial meaning. The possibility of variation of the actual return from the expected return is termed risk. Corporate securities and government securities constitute important
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Summary and Critique: A Return To Christian Culture or‚ Why Avoid the Cult of the Slob? by Richard S. Taylor This book‚ A Return To Christian Culture‚ is written in the point of view that culture is important‚ and we are unaware and neglectful the significance of culture about its role in evangelism. The character of culture affects the majority of problems as a core of issue‚ such as the race‚ generation gap‚ and etc. The author‚ Richard Taylor‚ mentions the cultural difference between highly cultured
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CHAPTER 22 estimating risk and return on assets 1. WHAT IS RISK? Risk is the variability of an asset’s future returns. When only one return is possible‚ there is no risk. When more than one return is possible‚ the asset is risky. The greater the variability‚ the greater the risk. 2. RISK – RETURN RELATIONSHIP Investment risk is related to the probability of actually earning less than the expected return – the greater the chance of low or negative returns‚ the riskier the investment. Investors
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Internal Rate of Return Meaning of Capital Budgeting Capital budgeting can be defined as the process of analyzing‚ evaluating‚ and deciding whether resources should be allocated to a project or not. Capital budgeting addresses the issue of strategic long-term investment decisions. Process of capital budgeting ensure optimal allocation of resources and helps management work towards the goal of shareholder wealth maximization. Why Capital Budgeting is so Important? Involve
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THE EMINENT RETURN OF CHRIST This has really raised a lot of questions in the hearts of many. When we talk about the return of a person‚ then it means that such a person has come before and yet to come again as being expected by those who know of him. The return of Christ is what many believers have always waited for and this has gone a long way to pattern their lifestyles because of the cost thereof. Before one can wait for a person‚ then such a person must have known and experienced whom he is
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of the question 10 marks (paper 2) 20 minutes on it Explain the law of diminishing returns using average and marginal product curves Definition Law of diminishing returns refer to how the marginal production of a factor of production starts to progressively decrease as the factor is increased‚ in contrast to the increase that would otherwise be normally expected. Triple A Law of diminishing returns – as more and more of a variable factor is added to a fixed factor‚ output will rise initially
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asked for your advice. The three stocks currently held all have b = 1.0‚ and they are perfectly positively correlated with the market. Potential new Stocks A and B both have expected returns of 15%‚ are in equilibrium‚ and are equally correlated with the market‚ with r = 0.75. However‚ Stock A’s standard deviation of returns is 12% versus 8% for Stock B. Which stock should this investor add to his or her portfolio‚ or does the choice not matter? Answer: B‚ Stock B Since she has a portfolio the number
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