Every investment is characterised by return and risk. The concept of risk is intuitively understood by investors. In general‚ it refers to the possibility of incurring a loss in a financial transaction. But risk involves much more than that. The word ‘risk’ has a definite financial meaning. The possibility of variation of the actual return from the expected return is termed risk. Corporate securities and government securities constitute important investment avenues for investors
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Case Problem 1: Measuring Stock Market Risk As indicated by the case study S&P 500 index was use as a measure of the total return for the stock market. Our standard deviation of the total return was used as a one measure of the risk of an individual stock. Also betas for individual stocks are determined by simple linear regression. The variables were: total return for the stock as the dependent variable and independent variable is the total return for the stock. Since the descriptive statistics
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Government should continue to fund N.A.S.A’s space program is a huge controversy today. With the ideals that American tax dollars should be spent on more important things and that companies are now able to construct their own rockets that are able to send people on excursions into space‚ really is what challenges government support and true betterment of humanity. Since the beginning of human intelligence‚ humanity has always wondered what was beyond our world‚ and what mysteries lied with the starts
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“UK Open-Ended Mutual Funds Industry pre and post the Global Financial Crisis: Performance Persistence and Return Attribution” By Dimitris Xydias Abstract This dissertation project tests the persistence in performance of a survivorship bias controlled sample of 574 UK Open-End Mutual Funds for the period between 31/12/1999 and 31/12/2011 and decomposes the funds’ returns into factors. The former is done by employing both parametric and non-parametric approaches to identify persistence and the
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INVESTING IN THE PHILIPPINE STOCK MARKET: THE ECONOMIC‚ SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RISKS Maagad‚ Lorenzo Rafael P. Torres‚ Mae Junica A. BSAC-2 ACB Ms. Geraldine Eligan ENGLISH 27 TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Page i Table of Contents ii Proposals * Narrows 3 * Guide Questions 4 * Topic Outline 5 * Sentence Outline 7 * Paragraph Outline 9 Introduction 13 Body 14 Conclusion 24 Bibliography
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When the federal government wanted to impose a national speed limit and instead of enacting legislation they decided to threaten the states that failed to comply‚ by withholding federal road funds; I feel it should have been considered unlawful. The choice to enforce a speed limit should fall under the responsibility of each individual state. It should be voted on by the states elected officials whether a speed limit should be raised. I believe that Congress did not simply enact a national speed
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EFFECT OF INTEREST RATE ON INVESTMENT DETERMINATION IN NIGERIA (1970-2008) ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of interest rate on investment determination in Nigeria. The study is necessitated by the fact that the behavior of interest rates to a large extent determines investment activities and economic growth of any country. Investment decision is seen as demand for credit in an economy and this study calculated the annual variance of interest rate and its effects on investment determination.
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Chapter 8 Analysis of Risk and Return © 2015 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned‚ copied or duplicated‚ or posted to a publicly accessible website‚ in whole or in part. Introduction This chapter develops the risk-return relationship for individual projects (investments) and a portfolio of projects. The principles can also be applied to securities. © 2012 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned‚ copied or duplicated‚ or posted
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Employee Benefits Required by Law The legally required employee benefits constitute nearly a quarter of the benefits package that employers provide. These benefits include employer contributions to Social Security‚ unemployment insurance‚ and workers’ compensation insurance. Altogether such benefits represent about twenty-one and half percent of payroll costs. Social Security Social Security is the federally administered insurance system. Under current federal laws‚ both employer and
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reparation Questions 1. What have been the sources of Nucor’s competitive advantage so far (namely‚ up until 1986)? Do you think “business as usual” is likely to continue generating the same profits for Nucor? Why? 2. What are the technological risks associated with thin-slab casting? (What could go wrong and how bad would it be? You may find the spreadsheet posted with these preparation questions helpful here.) 3. What are the market risks associated with thin-slab casting? (What could go wrong
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