Client Report Letter Final

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You are a portfolio manager who uses options positions to customize the risk profile of your clients. In each case, what strategy is best given your client's objective? Required: a. • Performance to date: Up 16%. • • • © Client objective: Earn at least 15%. Your forecast: Good chance of major market movements, either up or down, between now and end of the year. b. Performance to date: Up 16%. • • © Client objective: Earn at least 15%. Your forecast: Good chance of a major market decline between now and end of year. a. What strategy is best given your client's objective? b. What strategy is best given your client's objective?

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13. Strategy 4 - Asset allocation Asset allocation is the proportion of your overall investment portfolio that you have invested in various categories of assets. Typical asset categories include, for example, equities (stocks or stock mutual funds), bonds (or bond funds), and cash (or cash equivalents such as Treasury bills). The following table illustrates several model portfolios that you can use as a basis for your own investment plan, depending on various factors, such as your time horizon, your risk tolerance, and your investment philosophy: Risk Tolerance/Investment Philosophy Asset Allocation and Time Horizons 0–5 Years 6–10 Years 11+ Years   10% Cash 20% Bonds 100% Equities High Risk/Aggressive 30% Bonds 80% Equities     60% Equities               20% Cash 10% Cash 20% Bonds Moderate Risk/Moderate 40% Bonds 30% Bonds 80% Equities   40% Equities 60% Equities             35% Cash 20% Cash 10% Cash Low Risk/Conservative 40% Bonds 40% Bonds…

Case Problem 1. Investment StrategyJ. D. Williams, Inc. is an investment advisory firm that manages more than $120 million in funds for its numerous clients. The company uses an asset allocation model that recommends the portion of each client’s portfolio to be invested in a growth stock fund, an income fund, and a money market fund. To maintain diversity in each client’s portfolio, the firm places limits on the percentage of each portfolio that may be invested in each of the three funds. General guidelines indicate that the amount invested in the growth fund must be between 20% and 40% of the total portfolio value. Similar percentages for the other two funds stipulate that between 20% and 50% of the total portfolio value must be in the income fund and that at least 30% of the total portfolio value must be in the money market fund. In addition, the company attempts to assess the risk tolerance of each client and adjust the portfolio to meet the needs of the individual investor. For…

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Consider the following returns for two investments, A and B. over the past four years: Investment 1: Investment 21 a-1. Calculate the mean for each investment. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Investment 1 Investment 2 Investment 1 O Investment 2 6% a-2. Which investment provides the higher return? Investment 1 Investment 2 Mean b-1. Calculate the standard deviation for each investment. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Investment 1 Investment 2 96 % Investment 1 Investment 2 Standard Deviation b-2. Which investment provides less risk? 516 5.7.5 c-1. Given a risk-free rate of 1.2%, calculate the Sharpe ratio for each investment. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places. Sharpe Ratio

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quiz 8-3

quiz 8-3

You are an investment advisor. During a consultation a client says to you "I want to diversify my portfolio. I currently hold investments in two companies, but I've read that if i add more assets to my portfolio, i can eliminate risk completely." Required. Using a diagram, advise the investor as to whether his assumption is correct.

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Week 5 Rachel is a financial investor who actively buys and sells in the securities market. Now she has a portfolio of all blue chips, including: $13,500 of Share A, $7,600 of Share B, $14,700 of Share C, and $5,500 of Share D. Required: a) Compute the weights of the assets in Rachel’s portfolio? (2 marks) b) If Rachel’s portfolio has provided her with returns of 9.7%, 12.4%, -5.5% and 17.2% over the past four years, respectively. Calculate the geometric average return of the portfolio for this period. (2 marks) c) Assume that expected return of the stock A in Rachel’s portfolio is 13.6% this year. The risk premium on the stocks of the same industry are 4.8%, betas of these stocks is 1.5 and the inflation rate was 2.7%. Calculate the risk-free rate of return using Capital Market Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). (2 marks) d) Following is forecast for economic situation and Rachel’s portfolio returns next year, calculate the expected return, variance and standard deviation of the portfolio.…

Primo Management Co. is looking at how best to evaluate the performance of its managers. Primo has been hearing more and more about benchmark portfolios and is interested in trying this approach. As such, the company hired Sally Jones, CFA, as a consultant to educate the managers on the best methods for constructing a benchmark portfolio, how to choose the best benchmark, whether the style of the fund under management matters, and what they should do with their global funds in terms of benchmarking. For the sake of discussion, Jones put together some comparative 2-year performance numbers that relate to Primo's current domestic funds under management and a potential benchmark. Style Category weight of Primo Large-cap growth Mid-cap growth 0.15 Small-cap growth 0.60 0.25 weight of Benchmark 0.50 0.40 0.10 return of Primo return of Benchmark (%) (%) 17 23 19 14 26 17 Calculate the contribution to performance of the pure sector allocation. Round your answer to two decimal place. Do not…

Joan McKay is a portfolio manager for a bank trust department. McKay meets with two clients, Kevin Murray and Lisa York, to review their investment objectives. Each client expresses an interest in changing his or her individual investment objectives. Both clients currently hold well-diversified portfolios of risky assets.a. Murray wants to increase the expected return of his portfolio. State what action McKay should take to achieve Murray’s objective. Justify your response in the context of the CML.b. York wants to reduce the risk exposure of her portfolio but does not want to engage in borrowing or lending activities to do so. State what action McKay should take to achieve York’s objective. Justify your response in the context of the SML.

Primo Management Company is looking at how best to evaluate the performance of its managers. Primo has been hearing more and more about benchmark portfolios and is interested in trying this approach. As such, the company hired Sally Jones, CFA, as a consultant to educate the managers on the best methods for constructing a benchmark portfolio, how to choose the best benchmark, whether the style of the fund under management matters, and what they should do with their global funds in terms of benchmarking.   For the sake of discussion, Jones put together some comparative two-year performance numbers that relate to Primo’s current domestic funds under management and a potential benchmark.   Style Category Weight Return Primo Benchmark Primo Benchmark Large-cap growth 0.60 0.50 17% 16% Mid-cap growth 0.15 0.40 24 26 Small-cap growth 0.25 0.10 20 18   As part of her analysis, Jones also takes a look at one of Primo’s global funds. In this particular portfolio, Primo is invested…

Primo Management Company is looking at how best to evaluate the performance of its managers. Primo has been hearing more and more about benchmark portfolios and is interested in trying this approach. As such, the company hired Sally Jones, CFA, as a consultant to educate the managers on the best methods for constructing a benchmark portfolio, how to choose the best benchmark, whether the style of the fund under management matters, and what they should do with their global funds in terms of benchmarking.   For the sake of discussion, Jones put together some comparative two-year performance numbers that relate to Primo’s current domestic funds under management and a potential benchmark.   Style Category Weight Return Primo Benchmark Primo Benchmark Large-cap growth 0.60 0.50 17% 16% Mid-cap growth 0.15 0.40 24 26 Small-cap growth 0.25 0.10 20 18   As part of her analysis, Jones also takes a look at one of Primo’s global funds. In this particular portfolio, Primo is invested…

Primo Management Company is looking at how best to evaluate the performance of its managers. Primo has been hearing more and more about benchmark portfolios and is interested in trying this approach. As such, the company hired Sally Jones, CFA, as a consultant to educate the managers on the best methods for constructing a benchmark portfolio, how to choose the best benchmark, whether the style of the fund under management matters, and what they should do with their global funds in terms of benchmarking.   For the sake of discussion, Jones put together some comparative two-year performance numbers that relate to Primo’s current domestic funds under management and a potential benchmark.   Style Category Weight Return Primo Benchmark Primo Benchmark Large-cap growth 0.60 0.50 17% 16% Mid-cap growth 0.15 0.40 24 26 Small-cap growth 0.25 0.10 20 18   As part of her analysis, Jones also takes a look at one of Primo’s global funds. In this particular portfolio, Primo is invested…