NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE NUS BUSINESS SCHOOL FIN 3102 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management Luis Goncalves-Pinto / Sem 1‚ AY 14/15 Practice Problems #1 1. You sell short 100 shares of Loser Co. at a market price of $45 per share. What is your maximum possible loss? Explain. 2. The investment bank you work for is writing its annual investments newsletter and you are in charge of the international markets outlook for next year. To prepare your section‚ you collect data on yearly
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24/01/2014 Should animals be used for different researches or testing products? In different places of the world a lot of researches and product’s tests proceed by using animals. And for decades the debate of “should animals be used for these experiments?” has been inevitable. F. Barbara Orlans‚ in her book called “In The Name Of Science: Issues In Responsible Animal Experimentation”‚ says that the biomedical researches and testing the product’s safety are the experiments in which sixty percent
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Evaluate the proposal In order to evaluate the aircraft proposal we need to calculate the NPV and IRR of both the Aircraft purchasing and leasing option. Investment decisions determine the future cash flows of a company and expected future cash flows determine the value of a company. In order to calculate the NPV we first needed to get a cost of capital. We calculated the Weighted Average Cost of Capital in order to measure the firm’s cost of capital. When calculating the WACC for the Aircraft
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Purpose of the study The purpose of the study is to know about investment avenues available in India‚ where do the people like to invest their savings‚ what are the various factors that they consider before investing in any financial instrument‚ to give a suggestion to the company where its funds lack in the market and how it should be rectified‚ to evaluate the consumer’s attitude towards saving and decision making regarding investments. Savings form a very important part of the economy of any
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trading of sports apparel. The “CHEETAH” brand of products was launched in 1979‚ signifying entry into the sport apparel arena. There are other developed brand names‚ which are CTH Ladies‚ CTH Unlimited‚ Cheetah Junior‚ Cheetah Ladies‚ Baby Cheetah‚ C. Union and C2 United. In addition‚ the company has two international licensee brands which is Ladybird for children wear and GQ for men’s business wear. Cheetah Holdings Berhad missions is to increase profitability and generate satisfactory returns for
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The machine costs $35‚000 and will last for 15 years. The cost of capital for this investment is 12% a) The payback period of this project is 7 years. The sum of cash flows during the first seven years equal the initial investment. The net present value (NPV) and IRR of this project is -$945.68‚ and 11.49% respectively. As the project has negative NPV and the IRR is lower than the cost of capital‚ Rainbow should not purchase the machine. b) If Rainbow pays additional $500 per year‚ Rainbow can
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Pan-Africanism and the Organization of African Unity Pan Africanism Definition Pan-Africanism is a sociopolitical worldview‚ and philosophy‚ as well as a movement‚ which seeks to unify both native Africans and those of the African Diaspora‚ as part of a "global African community". Pan Africanism represents the aggregation of the historical‚ cultural‚ spiritual‚ artistic‚ scientific and philosophical legacies of Africans from past times to the present. Pan Africanism
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Analyse and compare the ways in which East Asia states have recovered from the financial crisis of 1997-98 The East Asian Financial crisis occurred during 1997 - 98 and adversely affected five East Asian nations (Thailand‚ Malaysia‚ Indonesia‚ the Philippines and South Korea). According to (Sundaram 2006)‚ the crisis was triggered by the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997‚ leading to a currency crisis‚ which brought about a financial quagmire leading to an economic havoc. The crisis had a devastating
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Brailsford 4e: Solutions Manual Chapter 1 The investment decision Learning objectives After the completion of this chapter‚ the reader should be able to: ● understand the nature of an investment ● describe the key steps in the investment process ● recognise the major investment asset classes ● understand the role and function of financial markets ● understand the concept of return‚ and be able to distinguish between realised returns and expected returns ● understand the relationship between
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