INVESTMENTS-CONNECT PLUS ACCESS
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ISBN: 2810022611546
Author: Bodie
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Chapter 23, Problem 2CP
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Summary Introduction
To describe: Methods to handle local market risk and currency risk of investing in Japanese stock.
Introduction: Market risk is occurring when there is fluctuation but currency risk means devaluation of the currency. A client wants to invest some money in Japanese market without taking risk of cost and currency but this investment only for some period of time.
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Summary Introduction
To describe: Why the above mentioned methods to control risk in Japanese market is not so effective.
Introduction: Controlling of risk means protect the investment from the loss. To hedge the cost and currency risk in Japanese market, selling of index futures is profitable but there is some disadvantages also like contract size, management issues.
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A. In an efficient market, several factors would affect the market and value is not necessarily equals the price.
B. The value of the security is determined to compare it with the current market price and usually investor would buy when the value equals the price.
C. Sellers would prefer the accept lower bid price than higher bid price to realize gains.
D. Investors buy securities when securities are underpriced and sell them when it is overpriced.
E. All of the above
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Answer the following independent questions:
a) Explain why international stock might have high volatility but low betas.
b) Do you agree with the following statement? And explain why.
"The Capital Asset Pricing Model [CAPM] assumes that the stock market is dominated by welldiversified investors who are concerned with specific risk
) llustrate how to synthesize a forward hedging strategy by using only the money markets, in order
to hedge against the foreign exchange risk.
d) Use a numerical example to illustrate that when there is a large change in the interest rate, the
approximation error by using the duration and convexity rule is smaller than the approximation error
by using the duration rule only.
e) Why do we say a coupon bond can be seen as a package of zero-coupon bonds? Please use a
numerical example for illustration.
f) If the spot exchange between Euro and pound is Euro 1.1/Pound, and the UK Guilt returns a 0.5%
yield. It is also known that the Euro is expected to depreciate…
A reduction in the willingness of investors to take on risk would have what effect on the Security Market Line? A.no effect B.rotate the SML counter clockwise around the risk-free rate C.rotate the SML clockwise around the risk-free rate D.shift the SML upward, parallel to its previous location
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