When “An Arundel Tomb” was first published in The Whitsun Weddings in 1964‚ a number of reviewers singled the poem out for comment. Christopher Ricks‚ in The New York Review of Books‚ described Larkin as “the best poet England now has‚” and said of the collection “people will be grateful for its best poems for a long time.” Ricks listed “An Arundel Tomb” as one of the six best poems. Praise came also from Joseph L. Feather-stone‚ in New Republic‚ who used the last two lines of the poem to illustrate
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Arundel Partners: The Sequel project 1. Why do the principals of Arundel Partners think they can make money buying movie sequel rights? Why do the partners want to buy a portfolio of rights in advance rather than negotiating movie-by-movie to buy them? • The principals of Arundel Partners think they can make money buying movie sequel rights because they can use unpredictability of a movie’s success to their advantage. This can be done by exercising the right if the movie is a success
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The questions in this sample exam are mostly quantitative‚ but you should also expect some qualitative ones‚ such as true/false questions‚ on the exam. I did not include any here‚ as each true/false will require a different reasoning than others. Question 1: Consider a project with the following risk-free cash flows: t = 0 t = 1 t = 2 -40 20 25 Suppose that one year zero-coupon bonds yield 6% and two year zero-coupon bonds yield 8%. 1a) Find the NPV of the project.
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there any problems with the way Ito estimated the volatility numbers? Can you think of another way to estimate volatility that might yield estimates closer to the actual quotes? The weekly sigma of returns in the case is calculated by the standard deviation during the past 30 weeks‚ and is used as the forecast volatility for the all six kinds of option. We calculated the implied volatility numbers of the six option and found that the implied volatility varies from each to another. So it is inappropriate
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business idea. The proposal was to create a new investment group‚ Arundel Partners‚ that would exist solely for the purpose of purchasing sequel rights to motion pictures produced by major U.S. movie studios. The proposal was unusual in that studios rarely sold rights to sequels prior to 1992‚ and interesting in the sense that it did not target specific movies or negotiate prices based on performance of the first movie. Instead‚ Arundel wanted to create a portfolio of options to produce all sequels
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Why This is an Attractive Project The Arundel Partners’ believe that they can make money on this project as it allows them to capitalize on the idiosyncratic risk of the motion picture business. Producing and distributing motion picture films is a risky business due to the uncertainty of moviegoers’ tastes and a studio never knows if they have a blockbuster on their hands until after the movie has started production or even later after it has been released. The financial resources of even the largest
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[Type the company name] | Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project | Advanced Corporate Finance Case Analysis I | ZUBOV‚Vasily 1072582 LI‚Xinyuan 05403613 WU‚Yun 08426959 LU‚Yuan 08426975 9/21/2009 | Executive summary In 1992‚ an unusual business idea came into the eye of David A. Davis‚ a movie industry analyst in Los Angeles. The idea
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1.1 Assuming that Arundel Partners is a purely financial company with no experience in the movie industry whatsoever‚ one reason for them to buy the rights to create sequels would be to exploit a possible arbitrage in between the price they would pay for an option to sequels and its real value. Therefore valuing the said option correctly is of the most importance. 1.2 We believe that portfolio negotiation rather than on a film-by-film basis will level the playing field. Since the partners do not
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Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project Case Talking points Submitted by: Marc Brands‚ Hajime Tamachi‚ Rani Vainateya‚ Nobuyasu Sugimoto‚ Kunihiro Takahashi‚ Yasuhisa Tsurumi Our group performed a Monte Carlo simulation (attached spreadsheet). We have taken into consideration the data of all studios provided in Exhibit 7. We have assumed that the sequel production and success of the sequel is spread evenly across all the studios. We assume that the past data reflects the future probabilities
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Trading volatility is nothing new for option traders. Most option traders rely heavily on volatility information to choose their trades. For this reason‚ the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index‚ more commonly known by its ticker symbol VIX‚ has been a popular trading tool for option and equity traders since its introduction in 1993. Until recently‚ traders used regular equity or index options to trade volatility‚ but many quickly realized that this was not the best method. On Feb
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