Analyst has determined that the Zenith Fund tends to sell the winners and buy the losers. An examination of the semi-annual holdings of the fund reveals that the best performing assets often are not held in the subsequent six-month period. At the same time the new entrants to the Zenith Fund often were under-performers prior to being added. Consider the strategy or tactic of selling the winners and buying the losers. A) B) strategy. Explain how this action might be appropriate as a passive portfolio action. Explain why some people might adopt this action as part of an active portfolio

Analyst has determined that the Zenith Fund tends to sell the winners and buy the losers. An examination of the semi-annual holdings of the fund reveals that the best performing assets often are not held in the subsequent six-month period. At the same time the new entrants to the Zenith Fund often were under-performers prior to being added. Consider the strategy or tactic of selling the winners and buying the losers. A) B) strategy. Explain how this action might be appropriate as a passive portfolio action. Explain why some people might adopt this action as part of an active portfolio

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Which of the following statements is correct? a. Since investors prefer more return and less risk, one will never hold a dominated asset in the risk-return sense. In other words, if asset A has a higher expected return and lower standard-deviation than asset B, then investors would only hold asset A in their optimal portfolio. b. The IRR method correctly ranks mutually exclusive projects. c. When an investment project is evaluated today, the spending that occurred in the last year has to be included in the NPV analysis. d. The payback period criterion properly considers the time value of money. e. When there are two mutually exclusive projects, the project with the highest NPV should be chosen.
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You recently found out that when the market is in recession, ALL assets seem to suffer from some degree of liquidity problems as there are less trades than usual, and thus it is hard to sell an asset without losing some of its fair value. So, you concluded that at least some portion of liquidity risk must be systematic in nature and therefore it must be compensated by the market. To verify this, you cut the market portfolio in half by the illiquidity measure developed by Amihud (2002) [So that you have one relatively liquid portfolio and one relatively illiquid portfolio. Assume that this measure is reliable.] and calculated the market liquidity risk premium as follows: Market liquidity risk premium = Expected return on the illiquid portfolio - Expected return on the liquid portfolio = [E(RIL) - E(RL)] Then you formed 5 portfolios from the entire market based on liquidity (Amihud measure) and estimate the factor loading β (called liquidity beta) of each portfolio using [RIL - RL] as…
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Net Present Value Method—Annuity Briggs Excavation Company is planning an investment of $170,200 for a bulldozer. The bulldozer is expected to operate for 1,000 hours per year for five years. Customers will be charged $120 per hour for bulldozer work. The bulldozer operator costs $29 per hour in wages and benefits. The bulldozer is expected to require annual maintenance costing $10,000. The bulldozer uses fuel that is expected to cost $38 per hour of bulldozer operation. Present Value of an Annuity of $1 at Compound Interest Year 6% 10% 12% 15% 20% 1 0.943 0.909 0.893 0.870 0.833 2 1.833 1.736 1.690 1.626 1.528 3 2.673 2.487 2.402 2.283 2.106 4 3.465 3.170 3.037 2.855 2.589 5 4.212 3.791 3.605 3.352 2.991 6 4.917 4.355 4.111 3.784 3.326 7 5.582 4.868 4.564 4.160 3.605 8 6.210 5.335 4.968 4.487 3.837 9 6.802 5.759 5.328 4.772 4.031 10 7.360 6.145 5.650 5.019 4.192 a. Determine the equal annual net cash flows from operating the bulldozer. Use a minus…
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