13December2010 Solve the following problem showing all the necessary steps and computations. 1. Using the data in the following table‚ estimate (a) the average return and volatility for each stock‚ (b) the covariance between the stocks‚ and (c) the correlation between these two stocks. A. Stock A -10+20+5-5+9/6 = 3.5% Stock B 21+30+7-3-8+25/6 = 12% B. Covariance = 1/5 (-0.1-0.035)(0.21-0.04) + (0.2-0.035)(0.3-0.12) + (0.05-0.035)(0.07-0.12) + (-0.05-0.035)(-0.03-0.12) + (0.02-0.035)(-0.08-
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Period 7 Jack Whyte Reflection This year‚ both as a student and as a person‚ I learned a tremendous amount. For instance‚ I learned that in England‚ its spelled “grey”‚ but in America its spelled “gray”. That pretty much was the coolest and most useful thing I have heard in a long time‚ let alone in the past 10 months. But I am not in a position today to discuss this‚ and thus I will be detailing everything else I have learned that has fallen short. Scholastically‚ I’ve grown to appreciate
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Portfolio management Portfolio management is the professional management of various securities (shares‚ bonds and other securities) and assets (e.g.‚ real estate) in order to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of the investors. Investors may be institutions (insurance companies‚ pension funds‚ corporations‚ charities‚ educational establishments etc.) or private investors (both directly via investment contracts and more commonly via collective investment schemes e.g. mutual funds or exchange-traded
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Avoiding Historical Distortion: An Analysis of Davis’s Writing In a country renown for revolution‚ a time of looming reformation‚ and an age of rebirth‚ the story of The Return of Martin Guerre finds its inception as a historical legal study of the day-to-day occurrences of the lives of peasants in sixteenth-century France. Natalie Zemon Davis crafts her account of the famous story from a historical perspective infused with her own psychological inferences‚ legal case studies‚ and factual details
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21‚Jan.2015 Ms Leila Hussein 6 HAVEN St. MELBROUNE‚ AUSTRALIA‚ 1234 Dear Ms Leila Coffee Ville is pleased to formally offer you the position of café manager in our coffee shop. As discussed you will be responsible for the manager support function for our store. The duties and responsibilities that you will be expected to carry out are detailed in the attached job description (appendix 3). You will report directly to the Emma and your normal working hours are expected to be 7.00am to 5.00pm‚ Monday
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Investment Strategy and Portfolio Management - Case of study: Kaplan Capital Introduction For organisations operating in unpredictable and competitive markets‚ it becomes a challenge for fund managers to create an optimal investment portfolio for their companies and their clients. Fund managers are presented with various prospects in emerging markets‚ equities‚ real estate‚ corporate bonds‚ government bonds‚ hedge funds‚ financial derivatives‚ and other alternative investments options. With
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Cover Letter: Game of Pig Portfolio To play the game you need a regular 6-sided die. Each turn of the game consists of one or more rolls of the die. You keep rolling until you get a 1 or decide to stop. You may choose to stop rolling at any time. If you stop rolling before you get a 1 your score for that turn‚ your score is the sum of all of the numbers you rolled that turn (e.g. if you roll a 4‚ 6‚ 3‚ and 2 your score is 15 pts.). But‚ if you roll a 1 in that turn your turn is over and you receive
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is barely just breaking even. Yet there is still hope for them in with companies such as Goldman Sachs has raised their ratings for AK. They project a comeback in the market for steel manufacturers‚ and see them gaining potential with in the coming years. Even thou the economy at times feels as if it was stagnant‚ it is not and is just moving at a sluggish pace. So if you are thinking steel you’re in for long haul‚ and as the economy gains a steady moving pace so will AK Steel. AK Steel Strengths
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Portfolio Theory TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 3 2. Aerospace and Defence: BAE systems 3 3. Banks: HSBC 3 4. Chemicals: Bayer 4 5. Oil and Gas: BP 4 6. Retailers: Tesco 5 7. Telecommunications: BT 5 8. The UK Government long bond 6 9. Conclusions: Portfolio performance 7 Bibliography and References 8 1. Introduction The purpose of the following pages is to analyse the changes in the prices of the UK Government
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6 Year Old Girl’s Birthday Party Observation I was invited to Madi’s birthday party.It was 3PM at her home.I arrived 5 minites earlier‚Madi greeted me at door.She was wearing a snow white dress with a red bow tie on her head.When I praised her pretty dress she thanked me and told me it was handmade by Farna‚her neighbor‚as her birthday gift.I handed her my gift‚she cheerfully put them together with the other gifts and went to her friends and classmates. 6 year old Madi has two elder sisters Katelyn
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