Warren E. Buffett‚ 2005 Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives Suggested complementary case about investment managers and superior performance: “Bill Miller and Value Trust” (Case 2). Set in May 2005‚ this case invites the student to assess Berkshire Hathaway’s bid‚ through MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company‚ its wholly owned subsidiary‚ for the regulated energy-utility PacifiCorp. The task for the student is to perform a simple valuation of PacifiCorp and to consider the reasonableness
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FINANCIAL PLANNING REPORT FOR MR.AJAY SHARMA Prepared By TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents: Page nos. Assumptions & Risk Profile -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Asset Allocation Bucket --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Existing Investments Review ---------------------------
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Mercury Athletic Footwear Case Study John Liedtke head of Active Gear‚ Inc. (AGI) is contemplating whether to invest in Mercury Athletic a subsidiary of West Coast Fashions (WCF). Mercury was purchased by WCF in hopes to increase business revenue however this was not the case. Business did not do as expected‚ WCF was then eager to abandon its apparel. John Liedtke saw this as an opportunity to take over Mercury and as result increase its business revenue. In order to determine whether this is
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session • I move to fast through the material • I will slow down this time and go over 2 hours if necessary • I should correspond with Prof Bower more • Met with Professor Bower and created my slides based on the information she provided • Some one on one time would be really helpful • I will be in the library tomorrow from 12.30-3.30 if you need help with specific issues • The package • This time I personally created the package Format of Exam and Review Session
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likely to keep them low in the future. Such was certainly the case‚ for example‚ with JDS Uniphase‚ which paid way too much for SDL because a huge drop in demand in the wake of the dot-com crash‚ was turning its optical components industry into a huge money loser. The “Better Off” Test If the acquirer and the target boost their market share and growth potential in the industry as a result of their combined capabilities‚ then the deal passes the better off test. A second reason for merger failures
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firms. How is this possible? Does this violate our basic principle of stock valuation? Explain. Our basic principle of stock valuation is that the value of a share of stock is simply equal to the present value of all of the expected dividends on the stock. According to the dividend growth model‚ an asset that has no expected cash flows has a value of zero‚ so if investors are willing to purchase shares of stock in firms that pay no dividends‚ they evidently expect that the firms will begin paying
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Joseph L. Rotman School of Management RSM332 PROBLEM SET #1 1. Suppose you own a farm that‚ if run efficiently‚ can produce corn according to the following “transformation” formula: W1 = 400 I0 where I0 is the number of bushels of corn planted in date 0‚ and W1 is the number of bushels turned over to you in date 1‚ net after all payments to labor and other hired inputs. Your utility function of consumption at date 0 and consumption at date 1 is: U (C0 ‚ C1 ) = minimum(C0
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2012 The Modified Internal Rate of Return is an underused measure for selection of projects that a company can choose because it is more effective at dealing effectively with periodic free cash flows that develop from the time that an asset is purchased through its life to the point where it is sold‚ ranking projects and variable rates of return through the project life. The Internal Rate of Return is an inefficient model to make decisions with because it lack the ability
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Fig. 4.2). Given that supply is fixed then at any given quantity of money (M1) there will be a corresponding demand that varies inversely to the price level‚ i.e. a downward sloping demand curve and there will be an equilibrium price level that ‘clears the market’‚ i.e. demand equals supply. If the quantity of money is increased (M2) the demand curve will shift to the right‚ i.e. at the same price level demand will increase but‚ again‚ supply is fixed. A new equilibrium will be established at
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