CHAPTER 10 Return and Risk: The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Multiple Choice Questions I. DEFINITIONS PORTFOLIOS a 1. A portfolio is: a. a group of assets‚ such as stocks and bonds‚ held as a collective unit by an investor. b. the expected return on a risky asset. c. the expected return on a collection of risky assets. d. the variance of returns for a risky asset. e. the standard deviation of returns for a collection of risky assets. Difficulty level: Easy PORTFOLIO WEIGHTS
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Hand in your coursework to the student office on or 6. before the deadline and retain the receipt as proof of submission. Section A: Essay Questions (50%) Question 1: Discuss whether the Arbitrage Pricing Model is a better model than the Capital Asset Pricing Model in estimating a security’s expected return. Question 2: Do financial instrument traded in the money markets and the capital markets have the same characteristics? Give examples to explain. Question 3: ‘Market
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(10 points) Suppose CAPM works‚ and you know that the expected returns on Walmart and Amazon are estimated to be 12% and 10%‚ respectively. You have just calculated extremely reliable estimates of the betas of Walmart and Amazon to be 1.30 and 0.90‚ respectively. Given this data‚ what is a reasonable estimate of the risk-free rate (the return on a long-term government bond)? (Enter the answer with no more nor less than two decimal places‚ and leave off the % sign. For example‚ if your answer is 13
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looked at require their models (more specifically‚ their runway models) to be at least 5’ 7” or 5’ 8”. I’m 5’ 6” at the tallest. The agencies’ requirements make me wonder why they are that way and how they got to be that way. They make me question if that is the “ideal” height a woman must be to be considered beautiful or “perfect”. The topic of the “ideal” female body is really important to me because not only does it affect me and could potentially affect me as a model‚ it affects all women‚
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trends. However‚ recent news reports indicate that size zero models are so obsessed with their size that they become anorexic. Being fascinated by the fashion industry myself‚ it is important to explore the question: “Why should or should not size zero models be allowed to walk on the catwalk?” Size zero models should not be allowed on the catwalk. They are a bad influence on teenage girls who desire to look like these size zero “role” models. Young girls who attempt a “zero” do not develop as they
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emerging as soon as counsellors started to train other counsellors (Bernard & Goodyear‚ 2009). Several different theoretical models have developed to clarify and support counselling supervision. The focus of early models of supervision had generally been based on counselling theories (such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy‚ Adlerian or client-centred)‚ but these orientation-specific models have begun to be challenged as supervision has many characteristics that are different to counselling. Competency as
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511. Analyze Principles‚ Scope and purpose of professional supervision. Professional supervision is a formal arrangement which enables each member of staff to discuss their work regularly with another experienced practitioner. The experienced practitioner known as supervisor facilitates the discussion with less experienced member of staff‚ the supervisee. All clinical supervision has three core functions 1. Provide support to staff in their work. 2. Promote personal and professional development
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for the fiat 500 car model. Notoriously this car has been aimed at the female market for its compactness and stylish features. The advertisement features a woman aged between 25 and 35‚ well dressed standing adjacent to the vehicle. The young woman is drinking from an old-fashioned‚ glass bottle of milk. She holds the bottle in her right
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Looking back at my childhood I wonder why I loved construction up to such an extent. To balance my lopsided addiction to construction‚ I joined a ham radio club. I enjoyed learning about circuits and designing them. I do not remember how and when my model cities were replaced with an electronics lab in my basement. I again fell in love with construction‚ although of a different kind. ---- need to come up with a way to creatively incorporate
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she made so many friends in school and Mary had a huge house with a pretty big swimming pool in the back yard. This is the house Julie always wanted to live in‚ she would dream about it at night . Julie was 6’2 and Mary knew she had potential to be a model or anything in that nature‚ so Mary took her to modeling agencies‚ she was turned down multiple times‚ but Mary knew that she was going to be
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