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Suppose you work for an investment bank where you are assigned to track EchoStar's stock and create reports that brokers can distribute to investors. Investors can then use these reports and decide whether they want to invest in a particular stock. In this scenario, you are working as a _____ analyst.

Read the exerpt below and then answer the questions: The idea behind diversification is that if you spread your investment dollars around to various investments, if one goes down, the others will protect you from losing everything and if you diversify perfectly, the other investments may move in the opposite direction, so that your gains offset your losses.  So maybe some of your investments produce positive returns, while others are losing money.  But what if a particular stock produces huge gains? Consider Twitter. Its IPO was at the beginning of Nov 2013 and the stock opened at a price of about $42. By the end of the year 2013, the stock was trading at $69 a share. So, if you had $100,000 to invest and you put it all into Twitter at the IPO, your investment was worth about $164,000 at the end of 2013 – a gain of $64,000 in about 2 months! But what if you had diversified and put only $20,000 in Twitter and you invested $80,000 in other stocks? At the end of 2013, your Twitter stock…

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Respond to each of the following comments.a. If stock prices follow a random walk, then capital markets are little different from a casino.b. A good part of a company’s future prospects are predictable. Given this fact, stock prices can’t possibly follow a random walk.c. If markets are efficient, you might as well select your portfolio by throwing darts at the stock listings in The Wall Street Journal.

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Your grandmother calls you up and asks you for advice on where to invest some of her money. What do you think would be an appropriate investment for her. Choose one from the following A. Bitcoin B. An electric vehicle company C. A dividend paying stock D. A mutual fund that invests in risky smaller companies in the biotech industry.

Decide whether the following statement makes sense​ (or is clearly​ true) or does not make sense​ (or is clearly​ false). Explain your reasoning. I bought a fund advertised on the web that says it uses a secret investment strategy to get an annual return twice that of​ stocks, with no risk at all.Choose the correct answer below. A.The statement does make sense because this secret investing strategy must be a new financial planning strategy that does not incorporate the three traditional investment​ considerations: liquidity,​ risk, and return. B.The statement does not make sense because investing in stocks is​ low-risk to get high​ returns, thus getting higher returns than stocks with this secret strategy must mean the fund advertised on the web is​ low-risk, not no risk. C.The statement does make sense because the strategy indicates that the return is a predictable​ amount, thus the fund advertised on the web is a​ no-risk investment. D.The statement does not make sense because…

Acting as a financial adviser one of your duties is to create a balance of stocks and bonds that are tailored to the risk tolerance of your client. This means, some people want riskier balance with the goal of making more money, while others will take a lower risk to be safer with their investments. Your client has informed you that they have a desired average risk of 3.672 and have $7758.69 to invest in your suggested stocks and bonds. They also want triple the number of shares of MAT compared to BUS. You have selected: Stock MAT which has a risk of 3.2 and costs $36.74 per share. Stock BUS which has a risk of 8 and costs $46.35 per share. Bond SAFE which has a risk of 1.6 and a cost of $37.8 per share. You have determined you should buy shares of MAT, shares of BUS, and shares of SAFE.

Using the concept of beta and standard deviation, explain why it is highly unlikely that any investor, pension fund, private equity firm, venture capitalist, or anyone on TV shows (Hint: American Greed, Shark Tank) could ever beat the market average. Be specific in your example calculations.

What comment can be made about this? Investing in cryptocurrency can help provide diversification in a portfolio since historically, cryptos have shown no price correlation with the U.S. stock market (Levy, 2021). Also, unlike banks and other intermediaries, the blockchain is open 24/7, the transactions provide transparency plus anonymity because though the crypto wallet is viewable to the public, the owners of the wallets are anonymous. And, there is a lower risk of error since the transactions involve little human interaction (Voigt & Rosen, 2021).

You are an investment analyst at an asset management firm. Your colleague, the in-house economist, has analyzed all the risky securities in your economy - A, B and C. He provides you with the following statistics: Securities Expected Returns Standard Deviation 0.35 0.25 0.18 A B C 0.15 0.10 0.075 0.03 Risk-Free The Correlation between A and B is 0.2, between B and C is 0.5, and between A and C is 0.3. The prevailing risk-free rate is 3%. What is the Sharpe ratio of the market portfolio in this economy?

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Maria Juarez is a professional tennis player, and your firm managesher money. She has asked you to give her information about what determines the level of various interestrates. Your boss has prepared some questions for you to consider.a. What are the four most fundamental factors that affect the cost of money, or the general level of interestrates, in the economy?b. What is the real risk-free rate of interest (r*) and the nominal risk-free rate (rRF)? How are these tworates measured?c. Define the terms inflation premium (IP), default risk premium (DRP), liquidity premium (LP), and maturityrisk premium (MRP). Which of these premiums is included in determining the interest rate on (1)short-term U.S. Treasury securities, (2) long-term U.S. Treasury securities, (3) short-term corporatesecurities, and (4) long-term corporate securities? Explain how the premiums would vary over timeand among the different securities listed.d. What is the term structure of interest rates? What is a yield…

Investors face various choices regarding what they can invest in, and the choices carry varying amounts of risk. For example, stock prices are much more volatile than bond prices.   What is the typical reason why investors would choose to put their money into an investment with higher risk rather than one with lower risk?   Riskier investments typically have higher returns. Assuming enough risk in a portfolio qualifies investors for a large government tax credit. They are irrational or are thrill‑seekers. They want to signal their courage to other investors and scare them away. Riskier investments are insured by the FDIC.

Using Yahoo! Finance, consider TD Bank and Suncor and compare their book values versus their market values. In your opinion, which one is more important for each company? Why ?

explain the meaning of the old Wall Street saying if you engage in financial market activity you either sleep well or eat well

Portfolio optimization is the “holy grail” of investing. All investors are seeking the optimal portfolio that will maximize returns while minimizing risks. The Excel spreadsheet is the “optimizer” for the average investor. What are the primary benefits of using Excel portfolio optimization analysis? How would you optimize your portfolio using Excel?

You are an analyst working for a mutual fund. Your job is to select stocks for the fund. You want to select only one of the following tech stocks to add into your current portfolio: PhoneExp and VegMeat. Both stocks are similar along many metrics. They are all in the technology space and have been growing very fast over the past few years. However, it is hard to get all the information for these stocks, and so far you have collected only the following relevant information to help you make the decision:PhoneExp is a tech firm that focuses on developing and integrating mobile apps. Reading through analyst reports and based on your own judgement, you think the cost of equity for PhoneExp is 12%. PhoneExp estimated earnings per share next year are $10. It pays all its earnings as dividends.VegMeat is a biotech firm that promotes and advocates sustainable food choices. Currently, VegMeat stock is trading at $100/share, with estimated earnings next year of $10/share. You read from their…

You are an analyst working for a mutual fund. Your job is to select stocks for the fund. You want to select only one of the following tech stocks to add into your current portfolio: PhoneExp and VegMeat. Both stocks are similar along many metrics. They are all in the technology space and have been growing very fast over the past few years. However, it is hard to get all the information for these stocks, and so far you have collected only the following relevant information to help you make the decision:PhoneExp is a tech firm that focuses on developing and integrating mobile apps. Reading through analyst reports and based on your own judgement, you think the cost of equity for PhoneExp is 12%. PhoneExp estimated earnings per share next year are $10. It pays all its earnings as dividends.VegMeat is a biotech firm that promotes and advocates sustainable food choices. Currently, VegMeat stock is trading at $100/share, with estimated earnings next year of $10/share. You read from their…