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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Nondiversifiable and Diversifiable Risk c) Because Diversifiable risk can be eliminated through portfolio diversification‚ the more relevant risk is the Nondiversifiable risk. This kind of risk can be attributed to market forces and factors that affect ALL the firms and cannot be eliminated through portfolio diversification. In this case‚ the nondiversifiable risk is about 6.00%. Notice that the area between the red curve and the green line (which represents the diversifiable risk) diminishes as it approaches
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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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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. SYSTEMATIC RISK 3. Risk
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flows. (2)The riskiness of an asset may be measured on a stand-alone basis or in a portfolio context. An asset may be very risky if held by itself but may be much less risky when it is a part of a large portfolio. (3)In the context of a portfolio‚ the risk of an asset is divided into two parts: diversifiable risk (unsystematic risk) and market risk (systematic risk). Diversifiable risk arises from company-specific factors and hence can be washed away through diversification. Market risk stems from
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of 1.6 and a risk-free asset. How much should you invest in the risk-free asset? a. $0 b. $140 c. $200 d. $320 e. $400 ANALYZING A PORTFOLIO d 59. You have a $1‚000 portfolio which is invested in stocks A and B plus a risk-free asset. $400 is invested in stock A. Stock A has a beta of 1.3 and stock B has a beta of .7. How much needs to be invested in stock B if you want a portfolio beta of .90? a. $0 b. $268 c. $482 d. $543 e. $600 EXPECTED RETURN c 60. You recently
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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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Overview The Risk - Return Relationship Another fundamental relationship in the study of finance is the relationship between expected return and the expected level of associated risk. The nature of the relationship is that as the level of expected risk increases‚ the level of expected return also increases. The opposite is true as well. Lower levels of expected risk are associated with lower expected returns. This RISK-RETURN RELATIONSHIP is characterized as being a direct relationship
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Risk and Return Assignment Questions 1. Suppose a stock begins the year with a price of $25 per share and ends with a price of $35 per share. During the year it paid a $2 dividend per share. What are its dividend yield‚ its capital gain‚ and its total return for the year? 2. An investor receives the following dollar returns a stock investment of $25: $1.00 of dividends Share price rise of $2.00 Calculate the investor’s total return. 3. Below are the probabilities for the economy’s five
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Divisional hurdle rates Financial management and policy Case 1‚ week 2 University of Maastricht Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Maastricht‚ 5th of November 2003 Danner‚ W. I 136964 Kuijt‚ R.J. I 130885 Steenvoorden‚ W.J.M. I 178829 Course Code: 6010v Group number: 7 Subgroup number: 1 Tutor: B. Pavlov Introduction Randolph Corporation is a multidivisional company. Due to frictions among the divisions‚ Randolph’s stock has not performed according to expectations
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