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• BUS 405 Entire Course
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• BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 1 Blumes Formula, Allocation,
  and Selection
• BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 2 Money Market Funds
• BUS 405 Week 1 Quiz Chapters 1-4
• BUS 405 Week 1 Assignment Annualized Returns
  Chapter 3 problem 18
• BUS 405 Week 2 DQ 1 Primary and Secondary Markets
• BUS 405 Week 2 DQ 2 Contrarian Investing
• BUS 405 Week 2 Assignment Abbott Laboratories
  Problem
• BUS 405 Week 2 Quiz Chapters 5-8

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• BUS 405 Week 1 Assignment Annualized Returns
  Chapter 3 problem 18
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• Annualized Returns. Complete problem 18 in
  Chapter 3 (shown below) and submit to the
  instructor. Show your work to find the annualized
  return for each of the listed share prices. Write
  a 100 word analysis of the process to calculate
  these annualized returns.
• Suppose you have 28,000 to invest. Youre
  considering Miller-Moore Equine Enterprises
  (MMEE), which is currently selling for 40 per
  share. You also notice that a call option with a
  40 strike price and six months to maturity is
  available. The premium is 4.00.

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• BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 1 Blumes Formula, Allocation,
  and Selection
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• Blumes Formula, Allocation, and Selection. From
  Chapter 1, answer Concept Question 5 What is
  Blumes formula? When would you want to use it in
  practice? Also, from Chapter 2, answer Concept
  Question 4 What is the difference between asset
  allocation and security selection? Remember to
  complete all parts of the questions and support
  your answers with examples from the text and
  other resources. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings outside of your own thread.

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• BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 2 Money Market Funds
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• Money Market Funds. From Chapter 4, complete
  Problem 4 The Aqua Liquid Assets Money Market
  Mutual Fund has a NAV of 1 per share. During the
  year, the assets held by this fund appreciated by
  2.5 percent. If you had invested 50,000 in this
  fund at the start of the year, how many shares
  would you own at the end of the year? What will
  the NAV of this fund be at the end of the year?
  Why? Remember to complete all parts of the
  question, show your work, and report the results
  of your analysis. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings outside of your own thread.

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• BUS 405 Week 1 Quiz Chapters 1-4
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• BUS 405 Week 1 Quiz Chapters 1-4

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• BUS 405 Week 2 Assignment Abbott Laboratories
  Problem
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• Abbott Laboratories Problem. After reading the
  Value Line figures and information on Abbott
  Laboratories in the Questions and Problems
  section of Chapter 6 (just before Problem 27),
  complete Problems 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31 and
  submit to your instructor. Show your calculations
  and in your response to problem 31 write a 100 to
  200 word defense of your position as to the value
  of Abbott Laboratories stock at its current price
  of 50 per share.

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• BUS 405 Week 2 DQ 1 Primary and Secondary Markets
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• Primary and Secondary Markets. Complete Concept
  Question 1 from Chapter 5 If you were to visit
  your local Chevrolet retailer, there is both a
  primary and a secondary market in action.
  Explain. Is the Chevy retailer a dealer or a
  broker? Remember to complete all parts of the
  question and support your answers with examples
  from the text and other resources. Respond to at
  least two of your classmates postings outside of
  your own thread.

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• BUS 405 Week 2 DQ 2 Contrarian Investing
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• Contrarian Investing. Complete Concept Question 9
  from Chapter 8 What does it mean to be a
  contrarian investor? How would a contrarian
  investor use technical analysis? Post your
  answers to the discussion board. Remember to
  complete all parts of the question and support
  your answers with examples from the text and
  other resources. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings outside of your own thread.

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• BUS 405 Week 2 Quiz Chapters 5-8
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• BUS 405 Week 2 Quiz Chapters 5-8

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• BUS 405 Week 3 Assignment Bootstrapping Chapter
  10 Problem 31
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• Bootstrapping. Complete problem 31 of Chapter 10
  (shown below), and submit to your instructor.
  Show your calculations and the algebraic
  manipulation of the price equation for the bond.
  In addition to solving the problem, write a 100
  to 200 word essay on the term structure of fixed
  income securities.
• One method used to obtain an estimate of the term
  structure of interest rates is called
  bootstrapping. Suppose you have a one-year zero
  coupon bond with a rate of r1 and a two-year bond
  with an annual coupon payment of C. To bootstrap
  the two-year rate, you can set up the following
  equation for the price (P) of the coupon bond

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• BUS 405 Week 3 DQ 1 Forward Interest Rates
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• Forward Interest Rates. Complete Problem 16 from
  the Questions and Problems section of Chapter 9
  According to the pure expectations theory of
  interest rates, how much do you expect to pay for
  a one-year STRIPS on February 15, 2011? What is
  the corresponding implied forward rate? How does
  your answer compare to the current yield on a
  one-year STRIPS? What does this tell you about
  the relationship between implied forward rates,
  the shape of the zero coupon yield curve, and
  market expectations about future spot interest
  rates?

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• BUS 405 Week 3 DQ 2 Bond Prices versus Yields
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• Bond Prices versus Yields. Complete Concept
  Question 9 of Chapter 10 (a) What is the
  relationship between the price of a bond and its
  YTM? (b) Explain why some bonds sell at a premium
  to par value, and other bonds sell at a discount.
  What do you know about the relationship between
  the coupon rate and the YTM for premium bonds?
  What about discount bonds? For bonds selling at
  par value? (c) What is the relationship between
  the current yield and YTM for premium bonds? For
  discount bonds? For bonds selling at par value?
  Remember to complete all parts of the questions,
  and report the results of your analysis.

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• BUS 405 Week 3 Quiz Chapters 9-10
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• BUS 405 Week 3 Quiz Chapters 9-10

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• BUS 405 Week 4 Assignment Performance Metrics
  Chapter 13 Problem 22
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• Performance Metrics. Complete Problem 22 in the
  Questions and Problems section of Chapter 13
  (shown below). When you pick the best choice for
  your portfolio, defend your decision in a 100 -
  200 word essay.
• You have been given the following return
  information for two mutual funds (Papa and Mama),
  the market index, and the risk-free rate.
  Year Papa Fund Mama Fund Market Risk-Free
• 2008 -12.6 -22.6 -24.5 1

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• BUS 405 Week 4 DQ 1 Expected Returns and
  Deviation
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• Expected Returns and Deviation. Complete Problems
  1, 2, and 3 from the Questions and Problems
  section of Chapter 11 (shown below). Remember to
  complete all parts of the questions, and report
  the results of your analysis. Respond to at least
  two of your classmates postings outside of your
  own thread.
• a. Use the following information on states of the
  economy and stock returns to calculate the
  expected return for Dingaling Telephone.
• State of Economy Probability of State of the
  Economy Security Return if State Occurs

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• BUS 405 Week 4 DQ 2 Portfolio Weights
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• Portfolio Weights. Complete Problem 10 from the
  Questions and Problems section of Chapter 12 A
  stock has a beta of .9 and an expected return of
  9 percent. A risk-free asset currently earns 4
  percent.
• a. What is the expected return on a portfolio
  that is equally invested in the two assets?
• b. If a portfolio of the two assets has a beta of
  .5, what are the portfolio weights?
• c. If a portfolio of the two assets has an
  expected return of 8 percent, what is its beta?
• d. If a portfolio of the two assets has a beta of
  1.80, what are the portfolio weights?

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• BUS 405 Week 4 Quiz Chapters 11-13
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• BUS 405 Week 4 Quiz Chapters 11-13

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• BUS 405 Week 5 DQ 1 Hedging with Futures
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• Hedging with Futures. Complete Concept Question 7
  from Chapter 14 The town of South Park is
  planning a bond issue in six months and Kenny,
  the town treasurer, is worried that interest
  rates may rise, thereby reducing the value of the
  bond issue. Should Kenny buy or sell Treasury
  bond futures contracts to hedge the impending
  bond issue? Remember to complete all parts of the
  question and support your answers with examples
  from the text and other resources.

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• BUS 405 Week 5 DQ 2 Option Strategies
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• Option Strategies. Complete Concept Question 12
  from Chapter 15 Recall the options strategies of
  a protective put and covered call discussed in
  the text. Suppose you have sold short some shares
  of stock. Discuss analogous option strategies and
  how you would implement them. (Hint Theyre
  called protective calls and covered puts.)
  Remember to complete all parts of the question
  and support your answers with examples from the
  text and other resources. Respond to at least two
  of your classmates postings outside of your own
  thread.

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• BUS 405 Week 5 Final Project Construct a
  well-diversified portfolio
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• Focus of the Final Project
• The student will construct a well-diversified
  portfolio using an initial investment stake of
  50,000 (the portfolio should use 95 of the
  fund, but they may not use more than 50,000).
  The student may include stocks, common or
  preferred bonds, corporate or U.S. Treasury
  bonds mutual funds and futures contract or
  options. The student will use the closing prices
  from the first day of the class to determine the
  price of each issue. Only whole lots of any
  issues may be acquired, that is no less than 100
  shares of common or preferred stock no less than
  5 corporate bonds or 10,000 for U.S. Treasury
  Bonds no fewer than the minimum required
  investment for any mutual fund and no fewer than
  5 contracts for any option or futures position.

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