exercise price is $29‚ the risk-free interest rate is 5% per annum‚ the volatility is 25% per annum‚ and the time to maturity is four months. a. What is the price of the option if it is a European call? b. What is the price of the option if it is an American call? c. What is the price of the option if it is a European put? d. Verify that put–call parity holds. Question 2 Assume that the stock in Question 1is due to go ex-dividend in 1.5 months. The expected dividend is 50 cents
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points) In a world with no frictions (taxes‚ etc.)‚ value is created by how you finance a project. True. False. Question 2 (5) The return of equity is equal to the return on debt of a project/firm Always true. Never true. Sometimes true. Question 3 (10 points) Moogle‚ Inc. is in the same business as Google‚ Inc.‚ but has recently retired all its debt to become an all-equity firm. Its return on equity has dropped from 12.25% to 10.60% as a result of this. Google‚ Inc. continues to have debt
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LECTURE OUTLINE – DRAFT 2 [pp. 3-4 are new] NB MIDTERM EXAM SUNDAY‚ OCTOBER 20‚ 2013 CONCLUDE LECTURE 4 THE SHARPE SINGLE INDEX MODEL SHARPE MODEL’S APPLICATION TO PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT THE MODEL’S ASSUMPTIONS [ARE THEY REALISTIC?] ESTIMATING THE MODEL PARAMETERS RELIABILITY OF THE ESTIMATES IMPROVING THE MODEL SHARPE VERSUS NAÏVE DIVERSIFICATION [BODIE Appendix 6A +] REFERENCE: BODIE 6th ed.‚ CHAPTER 9‚ SECTIONS 9.1-9.5 AN APPLICATION OF THE SHARPE SINGLE INDEX MODEL A Disciplined
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Juan (a) Expected Portfolio Return and Risk Expected Return Risk Covariance = (0.002)(0.06)(0.09)=0.0000108 (b) Minimum Variance (Pendix Ltd) The minimum variance for this portfolio is 0.693‚ indicating that risk is minimized when 69.3 percent of the portfolio is invested in Pendix’s shares. A rational investor would not allow Pendix’s shares to account for more than this proportion as they could get a higher return and lower risk by reducing
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of Interest Rate Risk Supporting Document to the New Basel Capital Accord Issued for comment by 31 May 2001 January 2001 Superseded document Superseded document Table of contents SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................................. 1 I. SOURCES AND EFFECTS OF INTEREST RATE RISK ............................................................. 5 A. SOURCES OF INTEREST RATE RISK ..
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Interest Rate Risk (IRR) Management What is Interest Rate Risk : Interest rate risk is the risk where changes in market interest rates might adversely affect a bank’s financial condition. The management of Interest Rate Risk should be one of the critical components of market risk management in banks. The regulatory restrictions in the past had greatly reduced many of the risks in the banking system. Deregulation of interest rates has‚ however‚ exposed them to the adverse impacts of interest rate
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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. PORTFOLIO WEIGHTS 2. The percentage of a portfolio’s total value invested in a particular asset is called that asset’s: a. portfolio return. b. portfolio weight. c. portfolio risk. d. rate of return. e. investment value. SYSTEMATIC RISK
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a 58. You want your portfolio beta to be 1.20. Currently‚ your portfolio consists of $100 invested in stock A with a beta of 1.4 and $300 in stock B with a beta of .6. You have another $400 to invest and want to divide it between an asset with a beta of 1.6 and a risk-free asset. How much should you invest in the risk-free asset? a. $0 b. $140 c. $200 d. $320 e. $400 ANALYZING A PORTFOLIO d 59. You have a $1‚000 portfolio which is invested in stocks A and B plus a risk-free
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are expected to generate cash flows and hence the riskiness of a financial asset is measured in terms of the riskiness of its cash flows. (2)The riskiness of an asset may be measured on a stand-alone basis or in a portfolio context. An asset may be very risky if held by itself but may be much less risky when it is a part of a large portfolio. (3)In the context of a portfolio‚ the risk of an asset is divided into two parts: diversifiable risk (unsystematic risk) and market risk (systematic risk). Diversifiable
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Risk and Return: Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models Portfolio Theory Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Efficient frontier Capital Market Line (CML) Security Market Line (SML) Beta calculation Arbitrage pricing theory Fama-French 3-factor model Portfolio Theory • Suppose Asset A has an expected return of 10 percent and a standard deviation of 20 percent. Asset B has an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 40 percent. If the correlation between A and B is 0.6
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