A native speaker refers to a person who speaks a language as his or her first language whereby it is also own of the certain someone’s mother tongue. Usually‚ the language is the language that their parents’ speak and the language of the country that they have been residing since they were born. According to Cook‚ she stated an important fact that to be a ‘native speaker’ of a language a person must have learnt the particular language from birth (Cook‚ 1999). A non-native speaker refers to someone
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Returns 1 RETURNS Prices and returns Let Pt be the price of an asset at time t. Assuming no dividends the net return is Pt Pt − Pt−1 −1= Rt = Pt−1 Pt−1 The simple gross return is Pt = 1 + Rt Pt−1 Returns 2 Example: If Pt−1 = 2 and Pt = 2.1 then 2.1 Pt 1 + Rt = = = 1.05 and Rt = 0.05 Pt−1 2 Returns 3 The gross return over k periods (t − k to t) is 1 + Rt (k) := Pt−1 Pt−k+1 Pt Pt ··· = Pt−k Pt−1 Pt−2 Pt−k = (1 + Rt ) · · · (1 + Rt−k+1 ) Returns are • scale-free‚ meaning that they do not depend
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an investor. b. the expected return on a risky asset. c. the expected return on a collection of risky assets. d. the variance of returns for a risky asset. e. the standard deviation of returns for a collection of risky assets. PORTFOLIO WEIGHTS 2. The percentage of a portfolio’s total value invested in a particular asset is called that asset’s: a. portfolio return. b. portfolio weight. c. portfolio risk. d. rate of return. e. investment value.
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Risk and Return: Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models Portfolio Theory Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Efficient frontier Capital Market Line (CML) Security Market Line (SML) Beta calculation Arbitrage pricing theory Fama-French 3-factor model Portfolio Theory • Suppose Asset A has an expected return of 10 percent and a standard deviation of 20 percent. Asset B has an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 40 percent. If the correlation between A and B is 0.6
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MODELLING ABNORMAL RETURN: A REVIEW ARTICLE Oleh Norman Strong Overview Paper ini memberikan panduan untuk metodologi event study dan menguraikan prosedur pemodelan return abnormal dan masalah yang terkait. Event Study Event study adalah nama yang diberikan pada penelitian empiris atas hubungan antara harga sekuritas dengan kejadian ekonomi (economic events). Kebanyakan event study memfokuskan pada perilaku harga saham dalam rangka untuk menguji apakah perilaku stokastik mereka dipengaruhi oleh pengungkapan
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Returns to Scale Returns to scale is a concept that tries to explain the behaviour of the output in relation to the change in the total scale of operations of the firm. A change of scale of operations means a change in the total size of the firm‚ i.e. a change in both labour and capital of the firm. For determining the returns to scale‚ we need to calculate the Output Elasticity where: Output Elasticity = % change in Output/% change in all inputs The different types of returns to scales
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The documentary Return to the Wild debates the two very different argued reasons of why Chris McCandless went into the wild. The writers choose to uncover the dark secrets of the McCandless family and to reveal the truth as to why Chris travelled into the Alaskan wilderness. The documentary adopts an intense tone in the beginning that shifts to a more light hearted attitude throughout the second half of the film using symbolism‚ cinematography‚ audio‚ and various interviews in order to explain to
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Income Tax Return Assignment You have your own CPA tax practice and you are greeted with new clients: Albert and Jenny Cunningham and their two children. You meet with them and they give you the information shown below. They would like you to prepare their tax return for 2013. They would like to file married filing jointly. NOTE: Reference to the “current tax year” below for the taxpayers‚ Albert and Jenny‚ it is for the calendar year 2013. Albert and Jenny Cunningham (both 42 years
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the opportunity to extend their network. More information regarding the programme of the conference programme can be found in the Event Design Proposal. In addition to the Event Design Proposal‚ this report focuses on a method that can measure the Return on Investment (ROI) on this large-scale event. As ROI has become a pressing matter‚ especially in the event industry‚ this is offers a perfect opportunity to implement the ROI methodology. All staff members of iVents have been involved with the ROI
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ch10 Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. The capital gains yield plus the dividend yield on a security is called the: A. geometric return. B. average period return. C. current yield. D. total return. 2. The expected return on a security in the market context is: A. a negative function of execs security risk. B. a positive function of the beta. C. a negative function of the beta. D. a positive function of the excess security
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