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Investments and Portfolio Management Tutorial 3 - Questions 1. You own 100 shares of Qantas Airlines and wish to sell them to make money for a deposit on a new home. Assume there is absolutely no secondary market system in ordinary shares. How would you go about selling the shares? Discuss what you would have to do to find a buyer, how long it might take and the price you might receive. 2. Are bond market indices more difficult to construct and maintain than share market indices? Explain your answer. 3. Discuss the rationale for expecting an efficient capital market. What factor would you look for to differentiate the market efficiency for two alternative shares? 4. In an efficient capital market, what do you have to do to be a superior analyst? How would you test whether an analyst was superior? 5. The initial margin requirement is 60 percent. You have $40,000 to invest in a stock selling for $80 a share. Ignoring taxes and commissions, show in detail the impact on your rate of return if the stock rises to $100 a share and if it declines to $40 a share assuming (a) you pay cash for the stock, and (b) you buy it using maximum leverage. 6. Lauren has a margin account and deposits $50,000. Assuming the prevailing margin requirement is 40 percent, commissions are ignored, and The Gentry Shoe Corporation is selling at $35 per share: a. How many shares of Gentry Shoe can Lauren purchase using the maximum allowable margin? b. What is Lauren’s profit (loss) if the price of Gentry’s stock i. Rises to $45? ii. Falls to $25? c. If the maintenance margin is 30 percent, to what price can Gentry Shoe fall before Lauren will receive a margin call?
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