International Technological University FINN 918 Financial Institutions Final Exam: Answers Textbook: Foundations of Financial Markets and Institutions‚ 4th Edition‚ Fabozzi‚ Modigliani‚ and Jones‚ Prentice Hall‚ 2010‚ | ISBN –13: 978-0-13613531-9 | ISBN –10: 0-13-613531-5 | 1. Indicate whether each of the following instruments trades in the money market or the capital market: a. General Motors Acceptance Corporation issues a financial instrument with four months to maturity.
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Course Syllabus Portfolio Theory and Application I Finance Department‚ School of Business Fall 2014 Instructor Information Instructor: Telephone: E-mail: Office Hours: Aimei Zhong‚ CFA‚ CAIA 610-833-2691 (c) aimei.zhong@villanova.edu Monday 8:15 – 8:45pm or by appointment Course Identification Course Numbers: Course Name: Course Location: Class Times: MSF 8640 Portfolio Theory and Applications I Bartley Hall 3069 Monday 5:30pm – 8:15pm Course Description/Overview A hands-on class where students
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FTX4086F ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS TIME: 180 MINUTES 4 June 2012 MARKS: 140 PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY: 1. PLEASE DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE OVER UNTIL INSTRUCTED TO DO SO. 2. Ensure that your name and student number appears on the cover of each Answer Book. Please complete this before the test commences. 3. Each Section is to be answered in a separate answer book and the answer book must be clearly marked. 4. All Answers must be done in ink‚
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Behavioral Finance Jay R. Ritter Cordell Professor of Finance University of Florida P.O. Box 117168 Gainesville FL 32611-7168 http://bear.cba.ufl.edu/ritter jay.ritter@cba.ufl.edu (352) 846-2837 Published‚ with minor modifications‚ in the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal Vol. 11‚ No. 4‚ (September 2003) pp. 429-437. Abstract This article provides a brief introduction to behavioral finance. Behavioral finance encompasses research that drops the traditional assumptions of expected utility
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Introduction Strategic Capital Management‚ LLC is a hedge fund planning to make financial investments in Creative Computers and Ubid. Creative Computers sold approximately 20% of its Internet auction subsidiary‚ Ubid‚ to the public at $15 per share. Ubid’s stock price closed the first day of trading at $48‚ giving Ubid a $439 million market capitalization. On dec 9‚ Creative Computers had a market capitalization of $ 232 million (22.75 * 10‚238‚703 outstanding shares) whereas Ubid’s market capitalization
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driven by three factors‚ as shown in Figure 1.1‚ which comes from a presentation that Towers Perrin developed together with Cass Business School. An additional change in the sixth merger wave has been the rise in activity by financial buyers (hedge funds‚ private equity funds‚ and venture capital funds) who therefore do not and cannot have strategic interests as the primary driver. These funds purchase large stakes in companies and then either purchase the remaining part of the company or force
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Over the past decade‚ professional managers and hedge funds have grown and become ubiquitous within the investment field. Even with the recent financial downturn and long lasting recession‚ individuals continue to place trust in managers in hopes of attaining a larger return on their investment. Regrettably‚ over this same time period‚ managers have been able to amass great wealth while the individual investor struggles to gain a modest profit. Misaligned incentives as well as informational
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ADMAP REVIEW OF THE MOVIE – INSIDE JOB Rohan Rambhia | PGP-10-155 Inside Job is an exemplary recount of how administrator’s role when exploited to form risky administrative strategies by means of faulty processes lead to a crisis of the stature of the recession of 2008. It is a comprehensive documentary which narrates the history of the collapse‚ not only going into great‚ informative depth about the risk-based strategies that put the global economy on the line‚ but looks back to the rise
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We live today in a multi-polar world where immense financial and economic activity has resulted in wealth being amassed and destroyed on an unprecedented scale in different parts of the world. This dynamic has been driven by the effects of globalization and the structural shift between developed and emerging markets. The recent crisis in financial markets and the global geo-political situation has brought with it challenges which will require increased depth and understanding for the changing dynamics
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price dropped. It results Porsche earned a large amount of profit by short selling the shares. As Porsche acquired a large amount of Volkswagen shares‚ Porsche became the Volkswagen’s largest shareholder. The Economist. (2008).How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets. Retrieved from http://www.economist.com/node/12523898. Bloomberg.
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