Journal One - The Stock Market Game First submission Date 26/10/2009 | Table 1 | | | Company | Shares bought | Share Price | Change | 3i Group | 2000 | £2.95 | £5‚900.00 | BP | 2000 | £5.65 | £11‚300.00 | Prudential | 4000 | £6.33 | £25‚320.00 | Sainsbury’s | 2000 | £3.39 | £6‚780.00 | | | | | TOTAL | | | £49‚300.00 | CASH HELD | | | £50‚700.00 | | | | | Original amount | | | £100‚000.00 | Profit/Loss | | | 0 | I will undertake
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CHAPTER 05 RISK AND RETURN: PAST AND PROLOGUE 1. The 1% VaR will be less than –30%. As percentile or probability of a return declines so does the magnitude of that return. Thus‚ a 1 percentile probability will produce a smaller VaR than a 5 percentile probability. 2. The geometric return represents a compounding growth number and will artificially inflate the annual performance of the portfolio. 3. No. Since all items are presented in nominal figures‚ the input should also use nominal
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Risk and Return -II PGDM/MMS- SEM-II PROF. V. RAMACHANDRAN FACULTY- SIESCOMS ‚ NERUL 1 PORTFOLIOS & RISK What is an Investment Portfolio A group of Assets that is owned by an Investor Single Security is riskier than Investing in a Portfolio. Portfolio may contain- Equity Capital‚ Bonds ‚ Real Estate‚ Savings Accounts‚ Bullion‚ Collectibles etc. In other words the Investor does not put all his eggs in to one Basket. 2 Diversification –Risk Reduction Let us assume you put your money
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Integrated Case 8-23 Merrill Finch Inc. Risk and Return Assume that you recently graduated with a major in finance. You just landed a job as a financial planner with Merrill Finch Inc.‚ a large financial services corporation. Your first assignment is to invest $100‚000 for a client. Because the funds are to be invested in a business at the end of 1 year‚ you have been instructed to plan for a 1-year holding period. Further‚ your boss has restricted you to the investment alternatives
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the proposed employee stock option plan? In a typical stock option plan‚ the employee is offered a specific number of shares which he/she can exercise (buy) at some specified time in the future. The price at which the employee can buy the stock is equal to the market price at the time the stock option was granted (grant price). The employee ’s gain is equal to the market value of the stock at the time it is exercised‚ less the grant price. If the market price of the stock remains the same or decreases
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I Get Started with Investing in Penny Stocks? Investing in Penny Stocks Investors who cannot afford blue chip stocks can still thrive at the stock market by investing in penny stocks. Penny stocks are essentially low-priced‚ small cap stocks‚ which may not necessarily cost a penny. For starters‚ the investment required is small and the rewards too good to ignore. For example‚ you can invest $2‚500 to buy 10‚000 shares at a price of $.25 a share. If the stock price rallies to $0.75‚ you will make
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8) The historical returns on large-company stocks‚ as reported by Ibbotson and Sinquefield‚ are based on: (Points : 3) the largest 20 percent of the stocks traded on the NYSE. the stocks of the largest 10 percent of the publicly traded firms in the U.S. all of the stocks listed on the NYSE. the stocks of the 500 companies included in the S&P 500 index. 2. (TCO 8) If the financial markets are efficient‚ then: (Points : 3) stock prices should never
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Stock Market Project August 25‚ 2008 The purpose of this paper is to explain the outcomes and decisions involved in investing one million dollars in four various stocks. Choosing a stock to invest in and how much to invest can be very difficult. There are many web sites available online to make the decision a little easier. This paper will explain why AT&T‚ Exxon‚ Apple and Wal-mart were the chosen four and the final outcome of the investment after four weeks. There are an overwhelming
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Powerline Network Corporation—Case Two: Risk and Return Thomas Calderone‚ CJ Anderson‚ and Megan Wegener FIN 480: Finance Capstone Course Professor Randy Lewis Spring Arbor University February 7‚ 2013 Powerline Network Corporation: Risk and Return Introduction The topics of risk and return are crucial to financial management because it allows a company to maximize stock value—in which risk is a determinant value‚ the rate of return in which investors require on various types of securities
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HEAD: RISK Risk and Return Tradeoff Memo The process of portfolio construction can be quite complex. Analysts go through reams of statistics – past performance‚ future potential‚ and industry knowledge and rely on personal insights into the market to arrive at the final list (UOP‚ 2009). Every investor aims to maximize returns while minimizing risk. Individual securities must be evaluated not only on the risk-return trade-off in isolation but also on their contribution to the risk-return
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