Portfolio Theory Case (Professor David Moreno) PARTNERS HEALTHCARE CASE The goal of this case is to teach to students the relevance of non traditional assets (as real states or commodities) in a well-diversified portfolio. Moreover‚ students will be able to practice with the most important concepts from portfolio theory as efficient frontier‚ dominated portfolios‚ Sharpe ratio‚ among others. In addition‚ students are learning how portfolio theory can be useful not only for portfolio managers
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Asset Class S.D. Expected Return Weight Asset Class Contribution Sharp ratio US Equity 15.21% 12.94% 24.32% 3.15% Foreign Equity 14.44% 12.42% 30.87% 3.83% Bonds 11.10% 5.40% 10.83% 0.58% REITs 13.54% 9.44% 9.91% 0.94% Commodities 18.43% 10.05% 24.07% 2.42% Total 100.00% 10.92% 0.815960738 Portfolio Mean Return 10.92% Portoflio Variance 0.90% Portfolio S.D 9.46% Calculation of Covariance (Do Not Alter Formula) Correlation Matrix
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Introduction: Partners‚ Healthcare System (PHS) is a nonprofit organization that is situated in Boston. It was founded by Brigham and women Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Partners Healthcare built a unique application with a set of facilities that support information needs of the clinicians. The facilities help to reconcile medication histories during the care transition points (inpatients admission and discharge). In its business strategy‚ Partners has also established a
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HKU763 PREETI GOYAL PEOPLE MANAGEMENT‚ THE MANTRA FOR SUCCESS: THE CASE OF SINGHANIA AND PARTNERS It was 9:15am on 25 April 2006. An article published in that day’s Economic Times‚ a leading Indian financial daily‚ had attracted the attention of both Mr Ravi Singhania and Ms Manju Mohotra. Singhania was the founder and managing partner of Singhania and Partners‚1 one of the largest full-service national law firms in India; Mohotra was its chief executive. The Indian legal services industry
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Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project The maximum per-film price for the sequel rights that Arundel Partners should pay is $5.12M. If Arundel Partners were to use the traditional DCF methods to find the value of the sequel rights‚ the NPV would be -$8.42M loss per-film (see Appendix 1). Calculation Details We assume that Arundel Partners will purchase a portfolio of films similar to one used in the analysis. The average hypothetical net inflow of the sequel ($21.57M) is used to figure out the value
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Rebecca Lamb Jessica Avalos Leah Anderson Stonemor Partners LP Stonemor Partners’ primary sources of liquidity is cash flow from operations and amounts available under their Credit Facility. In the past the company been able to increase their liquidity through long-term bank borrowings and the issuance of additional common units and other partnership securities‚ including debt‚ subject to the restrictions in their Credit Facility and under their senior secured notes. The
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Assuming that Arundel Partners is a purely financial company with no experience in the movie industry whatsoever‚ one reason for them to buy the rights to create sequels would be to exploit a possible arbitrage in between the price they would pay for an option to sequels and its real value. Therefore valuing the said option correctly is of the most importance. 1.2 We believe that portfolio negotiation rather than on a film-by-film basis will level the playing field. Since the partners do not have experience
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possible for the right price if at all rejecting the takeover bid will strengthen USG’s negotiation strategy and encourage the tendering company to increase their price. The bid was considered to be unsolicited‚ coercive and inadequate. Desert Partners has indicated a willingness to increase their tender offer to $50.00 per share in cash‚ debt‚ and stock. This change is not official and we feel that this makes their true intentions uncertain.
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----------------------------------- spootyhead Apr 17‚ 2007 Arundel Partners Case Analysis ----------------------------------- Arundel Partners Case Analysis Executive Summary: A group of investors (Arundel group) is looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights are to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wants to come up with a decision to either purchase all the sequel rights for
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Why This is an Attractive Project The Arundel Partners’ believe that they can make money on this project as it allows them to capitalize on the idiosyncratic risk of the motion picture business. Producing and distributing motion picture films is a risky business due to the uncertainty of moviegoers’ tastes and a studio never knows if they have a blockbuster on their hands until after the movie has started production or even later after it has been released. The financial resources of even the largest
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