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BUS 405 Entire Course For more course tutorials
visit www.bus405.com   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
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BUS 405 Week 1 Assignment Annualized Returns
Chapter 3 problem 18 For more course tutorials
visit www.bus405.com   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.
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BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 1 Blumes Formula, Allocation,
and Selection For more course tutorials
visit www.bus405.com   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?
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BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 2 Money Market Funds For more
course tutorials visit www.bus405.com   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?
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BUS 405 Week 1 Quiz Chapters 1-4 For more course
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Quiz Chapters 1-4
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BUS 405 Week 2 Assignment Abbott Laboratories
Problem For more course tutorials
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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 For more course tutorials
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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 For more
course tutorials visit www.bus405.com 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 For more course
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Quiz Chapters 5-8
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BUS 405 Week 3 Assignment Bootstrapping Chapter
10 Problem 31 For more course tutorials
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Times, RatingA 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.
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BUS 405 Week 3 DQ 1 Forward Interest Rates For
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rd 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?
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BUS 405 Week 3 DQ 2 Bond Prices versus Yields For
more course tutorials visit www.bus405.com   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?
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BUS 405 Week 3 Quiz Chapters 9-10 For more course
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Quiz Chapters 9-10
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BUS 405 Week 4 Assignment Performance Metrics
Chapter 13 Problem 22 For more course tutorials
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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
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BUS 405 Week 4 DQ 1 Expected Returns and
Deviation For more course tutorials
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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.
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BUS 405 Week 4 DQ 2 Portfolio Weights For more
course tutorials visit www.bus405.com   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?
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BUS 405 Week 4 Quiz Chapters 11-13 For more
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Week 4 Quiz Chapters 11-13
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BUS 405 Week 5 DQ 1 Hedging with Futures For more
course tutorials visit www.bus405.com   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?
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BUS 405 Week 5 DQ 2 Option Strategies For more
course tutorials visit www.bus405.com   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
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BUS 405 Week 5 Final Project Construct a
well-diversified portfolio For more course
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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.
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