P8-1 a) Expected Rate of Return $ $ $ Y 55‚000 6‚800 55‚000 X Previous Market Value Cash Flow Current Market Value X 20‚000 $ 1‚500 $ 21‚000 $ Y 12.50% 12.36% X: rt = (Ct + P rt = ($1‚50 rt = 0.125 = b) Both investments are equally risky. Keel should recommend Investment X because it has a Pt - Pt-1) / (Pt-1) Y: rt = (Ct + Pt - Pt-1) / (Pt-1) 0 + $21‚000 - $20‚000) / ($20‚000) rt = ($6‚800 + $55‚000 - $55‚000) / ($55‚00 = 12.5%
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INDIAN STOCK EXCHANGE. A few men‚ started one association under a banyan tree for trading some commodity/security in 1875 !! Who knew at that time that it would grow and would become NSE/BSE? Interesting? Read some finest events and milestones of Indian Stock Exchange. To study the history of the capital market in India we have to look back in eighteenth century when East India Company started security trading in India. Security trading in India was unorganised during that time. Until the end
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Socio-demographic variable and the perception of risk The socio-demographic elements such as age‚ gender‚ education‚ income‚ size of household and invulnerability of oneself are distinguished as important aspects influencing people’s risk perception (Klontz et al.‚ 1995; Hibbert et al.‚ 2004; Miles et al.‚ 2004). Support by the view of Flynn et al. (1994) that individual risk perception is manipulated by socio-demographic characteristics‚ voting behaviour and level of understanding. Furthermore
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QUESTIONNAIRE Name: - Age: - Contact no: - Occupation: - 1) What kind of investments you have made so far? ← Saving account ← Fixed deposit ← Mutual fund ← Gold ← Stock/equity market ← Real estate ← PPF ← Insurance 2) How much is your total investment annually? ← Less than 15000 ← 15000 – 40000 ← 40000 – 60000 ← More than 60000 3) What is the purpose
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Vietnam’s stock market’s recovery puts it among the world leaders for 2009 In 2008‚ the world economy saw a large recession on the worldwide scale due to the negative influences on the global financial and economic crisis. In the first few months of 2008‚ world economies faced sky high price increases‚ which led to the chain of bankruptcy of financial institutions‚ frozen credit market. Many investors sold off their stock portfolios and looked for less risky assets. MSCI index‚ the index of emerging
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Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market The Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market is a very interesting article. The following are my findings. From the article‚ I know that real investors and markets are too complicated to be stated by a few biases. The top down approach to behavioral finance focuses on the measurement of reduced form‚ aggregate sentiment and traces its effects to stock returns. In particular‚ stocks of low capitalization‚ younger‚ unprofitable‚ high volatility‚ non-dividend
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one of the largest stock crashes in history. This crash was caused by many things‚ I will be looking at the three main reasons below. Although only 16% of Americans owned stock at that point in time‚ the crash is usually considered the stating point of the great depression. The main reason the stock market crashed was mass panic and herd mentality. Investors had said that the market had been to good for to long and would crash soon. so some people started to sell their stocks‚ others thought that
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Product Inflation and Interest Rates on Stock Prices of Quoted Companies in Nigeria Daferighe. Emmanuel E Lecturer‚ Department of Accounting‚ Faculty of Management Sciences Olabisi Onabanjo University‚ Ago-Iwoye‚ Ogun State‚ Nigeria E-mail: daferighe2e@yahoo.com Tel: +234-805-5218-253 Aje. Samuel O Lecturer‚ Department of Accounting‚ Faculty of Management Sciences Olabisi Onabanjo University‚ Ago-Iwoye‚ Ogun State‚ Nigeria Tel: +234-803-7173-900 Abstract Market reacts differently to various factors
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How can risk influence risk premium? How are risk and return related? Risk and return are the fundamental basis upon which investors make their decision whether or not they should invest in a particular investment. How they are related and the influence between the two‚ is the decision making process that all investors must weigh up. This essay will show how risk can influence risk premium‚ outlining their relationship and how risk and return are related. Within any investment there is a certain
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the Stock Market Crash The end of World War I heralded a new era in the United States. It was an era of enthusiasm‚ confidence‚ and optimism (Rosenberg). It is in such times of optimism that people took their savings out from under their mattresses and out of banks and invested it in the stock market. With everyone’s money in the market‚ the 1929 stock market crash took a heavy toll on everyone. This crash was a shattering event that went on to shape this country. Even though the market crash
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