Investment Banking in 2008 (A): Rise and Fall of the Bear 1. What role did Bear’s culture play in its positioning vis-à-vis its competitors‚ and what role might that culture have played in its demise? Bear Stearns played a risky role with the promise of high returns. Bear was participating in the LTCM and created a bubble. Bear’s competitors recognized and hedged against risk by participating in the buyout while Bear Stearns ignored the bullish market. Other banks hired both externally as well
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The Investment Detective Case We can use normal investment to calculate the data‚ but we also can do it as reinvestment to invest every project for the same years. For every question‚ I will give answers for both normal investment and reinvestment. 1. We can rank the projects simply by the cash flow data. Normal investment: Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Project number 3 8 6 1 5 7 4 2 Cash flow 8000 2150 200 1310 2200 560 1561 165 Reinvestment: Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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Legality of object The main issue in this problem is whether there is an ’agreement’ - offer and acceptance However‚ on the first element of intention to create legal relations‚ it is clearly a business/commercial relationship between Tallula Investments Ltd and Italian Cuisine Ltd and therefore the presumption is that the parties intend to enter into legal relations. There is no evidence to rebut this presumption (see Jones v Vernon Pools). The next issue to be dealt with is the ’offer’. Has
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Single Investment. Expected return is a tool used to determine whether or not an investment has a positive or negative average net outcome. The most highest expected return is from Yong Tai Berhad. Standard deviation is a quantity expressing by how much the members of a group differ from the mean value for the group. The lowest standard deviation among this three company is from Hiap Teck Venture. Coefficient of variation represents the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean‚ and
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Investment Objectives Investment objectives cover how we accomplish most financial goals. These investment objectives are important because certain products and strategies work for one objective‚ but may produce poor results for another objective. It is quite likely you will use several of these investment objectives simultaneously to accomplish different objectives without any conflict. The other five specific objectives are stated below. Capital Appreciation Capital appreciation is
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210 Investment Fraud Charles Ponzi will forever infamously known as the con man of the 1920’s. Ponzi dealt with numerous amounts of investors who all trusted him to make them a profit on their investments. Unfortunately‚ Charles Ponzi was a crook from the start. He bought a total of $30 dollars in IPRC’s and stole about $30 million of his investor’s money. His brilliant idea that landed him in jail was to not buy IRPC’s at all‚ but to give people part of their own investments and call it
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Kris Howard Investment Banking The intensely competitive‚ action-oriented‚ profit-hungry world of investment banking can seem like a bigger-than-life place where deals are done and fortunes are made. Investment bank includes but is not limited to bringing an established company to the market‚ by that I mean taking company with the capabilities but not capital of expanding‚ and raising money through other investors or the stock market (IPO) for a commission‚ I chose this field because
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Investment Appraisal: The Gamma plc case Gamma plc is considering buying a new machine to expand their production of office furniture. The machine costs £1.3 million and will last for 5 years. The scrap value of these machines is £150‚000. It is expected that the asset will be sold for this value on the last day of the fifth year‚ and that a replacement machine will then be purchased. An investment of £120‚000 in working capital will be needed initially. The projected financial data
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MGT 6080 Investments Homework 1 Note: Due time/date for this homework is 4:30pm on February 5. Please make online submission at T-square. 0. Today you bought 100 shares of ABC Inc. at $100 per share. A year from now ABC will pay a dividend of $2 per share for sure. The price of ABC a year from now is uncertain and depends on the state of the economy. A year from now the economy will either be in a recession‚ a state of “normal” growth‚ or a boom with probabilities of 30%‚ 40%‚ and 30% respectively
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share. During the year you received dividend income distributions of $1.50 per share and capital gains distributions of $2.85 per share. At the end of the year the shares had a net asset value of $23 per share. What was your rate of return on this investment? A) 30.24% B) 25.37% C) 27.19% D) 22.44% E) 29.18% Answer: A Difficulty: Moderate Rationale: R = ($23-21+1.5+2.85)/$21 = 30.238% 31. Assume that you purchased shares of High Flying mutual fund at a net asset value of $12.50 per share. During the
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