...To: Susan Curtis From: Andrew Chin Date: 2/15 Re: Recommendation Letter Request Hello Mrs. Curtis! My name is Andrew Chin and I was in your Accounting 201 class from the spring semester of 2015. I am in the process of applying for an internship at RSM and I would deeply appreciate it if you wrote a letter of recommendation for me. It’s an accounting internship starting in December of 2017 at the RSM office in Chicago and I wanted to get my recommendation letter from you because I did very well in your course in which I learned material that directly correlates to what I will be doing at the internship. The date the letter needs to be sent in via email is March 15, 2016 at 11:55 pm to the address rsmwinterintership2017@rsm.com. The subject line should just say “Chin, Andrew” and please put a header in the actual email with your name and credentials before the letter. If you are unable to write the letter, I understand and I still appreciate everything you’ve done for me while I was your student. Otherwise, allow me to thank you in advance for the time spent fulfilling my recommendation request. Would it be beneficial for me to send you a reminder a week before the deadline? Yours Truly, Andrew Chin Complaint Letter To: Amazon Customer Service From: Andrew Chin Date: 2/10 Re: Faulty product, Replacement required On January 2, 2016, I purchased a Pentel GraphGear 500 Automatic Drafting Pencil Brown (PG523E) from the Amazon webstore. The pencil cost $15.99...
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...You Decide Scenario: Week 3 Detecting and preventing insider threats is its own discipline, with its own dynamics. If you put these countermeasures in place, you can reduce the threat dramatically. First, you can use an IP packet-filtering router. This type of router permits or denies the packet to either enter or leave the network through the interface on the basis of the protocol, IP address, and the port number. The protocol may be TCP, UDP, HTTP, SMTP, or FTP. The IP address under consideration would be both the source and the destination addresses of the nodes. The port numbers would correspond to the well-know port numbers (Vacca, 2009). Packet filtering lets you control data transfer based on the address the data is, the address the data is going to, and the session and application protocols being used to transfer data. The main advantage of packet filtering is leverage. It allows you to provide, in a single place, particular protections for an entire network. Consider the Telnet service. If you disallow Telnet by turning off the Telnet server on all your hosts, you still have to worry about someone in your organization installing a new machine (or reinstalling an old one) with the Telnet server turned on. On the other hand if Telnet is not allowed by your filtering router, such a new machine would be protected right from the start, regardless of whether or not its Telnet server was actually running. Another advantage of a packet filtering router is that...
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...run. In 2000 Black and Decker Corporation was still reeling from the financial and strategic problems stemming from the company's acquisition of Emhart Corporation in 1989. In late 1998 Black & Decker management celebrated the completion of an almost decade-long effort to divest nonstrategic business gained through its 1989 acquisition of Emhart Corporation and expected the company to enter a long-awaited period of growth as its entire management refocused its attention on its core power tools, plumbing, and security hardware business. Archibald believed that "This portfolio restructuring will allow us to focus on core operations that can deliver dependable and superior operating and financial results." However the portfolio restructuring did little to improve the market performance of the company's securities. Yet Archibald and the management continued to express confidence that the company's streamline portfolio would allow Black & Decker to achieve revenue and earnings growth that the market would find impressive. So far the 1998 divestitures have not produced steady increases in the company's stock price, but look promising for the future due to the efforts to refocus efforts on the successful power tools line. Strategic planning team evaluation Over the years, Black & Decker has branched off into many different directions in order to gain as much market share as possible. The diversification program in the 1980s produced mixed results for shareholders, and later...
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...work and needs to plan accordingly. One main question that is always a difficult one to answer is how long one needs to work before they can comfortably stop working and rely on their financial portfolio to take care of expenses after work. In order to analyze these questions, a deterministic model of an investment portfolio was created and stochastic modeling was used to determine the likelihood of being able to accumulate the necessary finances over the desired period of time. Quantitative Analysis: 1. Using the given deterministic model, the annual outflows were estimated from the retirement portfolio over the retirement years and the estimated return on the account was also calculated. It was determined that under these basic assumptions of salary and portfolio growth rate the portfolio could expect to grow to $452,900 within thirty years. However, this assumed a fixed salary growth rate of 5% as well as a 4% annual investment rate. Given the high rate of inflation and the projected expenses after retirement, it was calculated that if this money was to last for the retirement, then even pulling out $50,000 per year in expenses would cause the account to run out after just a few years. 2. Adjusting the annual rate to 8% from 4% had a major effect. Although the portfolio fell short of the one million dollar goal by only reaching $853,633, this was a major effect as it allows the individual the ability to pull $100,000 each year from this account and still sustain...
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...Kochman’s and Badarinathi’s mathematical case for upside deviation deals with portfolio upside deviations being divided by a market’s upside deviations to so show the resulting ratio and how it facilitates other tests for positive or negative skewness. The article discusses how CAPM is inappropriate for the evaluation of portfolios given that is not only assumed that the returns on distributions are symmetrical, but that the beta (performance and return-to-risk ratios) underestimates the risk of larger numbers of mutual funds. Kochman and Badarinathi needed to answer two questions; can upside deviation be the means for portfolio evaluations and can this be done by taking the upside deviation of portfolios and divide those figure by the upside deviation of the market? Kochman and Badarinathi believe that to make a case for upside deviation as a means for portfolio evaluations is to take the upside deviation of the portfolio(s) and dividing it by the market(s) upside deviation. This would result with a ratio that facilitates another test of positive or negative skewness. To test whether the ratio of portfolio-to-market upside deviations as a success, a test on fund returns would need to be conducted to ensure a meaningful difference between upside deviations, portfolios, and markets. The overall findings showed that the relationships between low betas and low upside volatility appeared to be weaker than the relationships between high betas and high upside volatility. In addition...
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...Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Investment Techniques (UOP) FIS 240 Week 5 DQs (UOP) FIS 240 Week 6 CheckPoint: So Many Businesses, So Little Money PART 1 OF 2 (UOP) FIS 240 Week 6 CheckPoint: So Many Businesses, So Little Money PART 2 OF 2 (UOP) FIS 240 Week 6 Assignment: Analyze This (UOP) FIS 240 Week 7 DQs (UOP) FIS 240 Week 7 CheckPoint: Income that Sticks PART 1 OF 2 (UOP) FIS 240 Week 7 CheckPoint: Income that Sticks PART 2 OF 2 (UOP) FIS 240 Week 8 CheckPoint: Lifetime Investment Matrix PART 1 OF 2 (UOP) FIS 240 Week 8 CheckPoint: Lifetime Investment Matrix PART 2 OF 2 (UOP) FIS 240 Week 8 Assignment: Living the Easy Life (UOP) FIS 240 Capstone Discussion Question (UOP) FIS 240 Final Project: Investment Policy and Portfolio Evaluation (UOP) ____________________________________________________ FIS 240 Week 1 CheckPoint: Is Time on My Side (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Resources: Appendix D and the Time Value of Money multimedia (enter into the Axia College student webpage first then copy and paste the link into the open browser) TUhttps://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/UBAM/Libraries/Flash/TVM.swfUT. Due Date: Day 5 [post to the Individual forum] Complete your responses to this week’s CheckPoint in Appendix D. Post the completed...
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...Modern Portfolio Theory in the Modern Economy: MPT During the Credit Crisis 0f 2008 Abstract There are various theories of risk and return as it pertains to measuring and predicting investment return in a portfolio- one of the oldest and most prominent being Modern Portfolio Theory .An example of a hypothetical portfolio utilizing the principles of MPT invested during the credit crisis of late 2008/early 2009 will be utilized in part. In direct application, does Modern Portfolio theory hold strong during a major financial crisis? Past research will be compared to present the mechanics and applications of MPT order to answer the questions poised and to create hypothetical portfolios based on past fund performance during the time period of 2007 -2010. It is expected that a portfolio using MPT would not have performed significantly better than any other less diversified investment. Contents Introduction……………………………………..........................................................................4-7 Credit Crisis Thesis Statement Modern Portfolio Defined Prior Research Prediction Method…………………………………………………….........................................................8-9 Parameters/ Source of Portfolios Results……………………………………………………......................................................10-19 A. Application/ graphs Conclusion…………………………………………...............………………………............19-20 Restatement of Thesis Discussion of Results Limitations Recommendation References……………………………………………………………………...
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...Premium และคำนวณ Standard Deviationเพื่อนำไปคำนวณหา Sharpe Ratio ที่มีอัตราส่วนที่สูงที่สุด ซึ่งอธิบายถึงผลตอบแทนที่ถูกปรับด้วยความเสี่ยง ที่ดีที่สุด เมื่อได้ทำการวิเคราะห์และคำนวณ Sharpe Ratio แล้ว พบว่า หุ้นที่เหมาะสมที่จะทำการลงทุนเพิ่ม ได้แก่ Pioneer Gypsum โดยลงทุนในสัดส่วน 4% จึงทำให้การลงทุนในตลาดเป็น 96% เนื่องจากเป็นสัดส่วนที่ทำให้ Sharpe Ratio มีค่าสูงที่สุด คือ 0.4702 ซึ่งถือได้ว่าเป็นการกระจายการลงทุนที่ทำให้ความเสี่ยงลดลง ซึ่งสอดคล้องกับทฤษฎี Modern Portfolio Theory ของ Harry M. Markowitz (1952) ที่กล่าวไว้ว่า “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” สรุปรายละเอียดของ Mini-Case : John & Marsha on Portfolio Selection John ทำหน้าที่บริหาร Portfolio ซึ่งมีมูลค่า 125 ล้านดอลลาร์ของนักลงทุนอยู่ เขาปรึกษากับ Marsha เกี่ยวกับปัญหาของการบริหารจัดการหุ้นใน Portfolio ของเขา โดย John คิดว่าที่ผ่านมาผลตอบแทนจาก portfolio ที่เขาดูแลอยู่นั้นมักจะใกล้เคียงกับอัตราผลตอบแทนของตลาดและอิงจากกราฟ S&P 500 market index ที่จัดทำขึ้น เขาจึงรู้สึกว่าการบริหารของเขาอ้างอิงแต่กับตัวเลขของตลาดมากเกินไป เขาอยากจะบริหารจัดการ portfolio เสียใหม่ให้มีความเป็นตัวของตัวเองมากขึ้น และได้รับผลตอบแทนที่สูงขึ้นกว่าอัตราผลตอบแทนของตลาด เพื่อทำให้การทำงานของเขามีประโยชน์ต่อลูกค้ามากขึ้น โดยเขาเลือกบริษัทที่ราคาตลาดของหุ้นต่ำกว่ามูลค่าที่ประเมินได้ (Undervalued) และที่ราคาตลาดของหุ้นสูงกว่ามูลค่าหุ้นที่ประเมินได้ (Overvalued) ามาส่วนหนึ่ง โดยบริษัทที่เขาคาดว่าน่าจะมีมูลค่า Undervalued และสมควรซื้อมากคือบริษัท Pioneer Gypsum และหุ้นของ Global mining นั้น Overvalued จึงไม่สมควรซื้อโดยข้อมูลต่างๆของทั้ง2บริษัทที่เขาหามาได้มีค่าตามตารางนี้ ...
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...Fidelity Large Cap Stock Fund and S&P 500 are similar funds. These two funds heavily invest in large market capitalization company common stock, topping 80% of its entire portfolio. Fidelity Large Cap Stock Fund consists of normally 11 different sectors for equities listed in highest portfolio weight with first five sectors making 80% of the portfolio: • Financials • Information Technology • Health Care • Energy • Industrials • Consumer Discretionary • Consumer Staples • Telecommunication Services • Materials • Utilities • Other Current year-to-date performance of the Fidelity Large Cap Stock Fund (FLCSX) was overall positive at 16.24% year-to-date return. The financial sector contributed and played a big part in making the successful performance this year resulting from a good portfolio mixture of securities and its positive gain. This mixture consists of some of the high return securities such as; JPMorgan Chase, MetLife and Charles Schwab returning, 29.38%, 48.68% and 54.99% respectively. The historic performance has shown that both MetLife and Charles Schwab performed well responding to the rising interest rates, and these two companies did not fail to positively react to the recent increase in interest rates. Both companies’ share price went up by more than 20%. Thanks to the uptick in interest rates due to many speculation of slow economy recovery in the market. S&P 500 also had a strong year-to-date return at 13.82%. Both FLCSX and S&P 500 topped...
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...price- $36.29 52 week range - $30.82-36.90 Expenses – 0.5% Management fees 0.38% Other expenses – 0.12% Type of Fund: open-ended fund. Class R shares are generally available only to retirement plans. Class R-5 are generally available only to fee-based programs or through retirement plan intermediaries. No dealer compensation is paid from fund assets on sales of Class R-5 or R-6 shares. I like that the expenses are low. It is a lower risk fund. Although it is a growth fund, it doesn’t seem to fluctuate that much. American Funds Capital World G/I R5 (RWIFX) 36.29 0.08(0.22%) Nov 27 Add to Portfolio Risk as of Oct 30, 2012 Get Risk for: Risk Overview Morningstar Risk Rating: 3 Number of Years Up 7 Number of Years Down 2 Best 1 Yr Total Return(Dec 30, 2003): 39.47% Worst 1 Yr Total Return(Dec 30, 2008): -38.21% Risk (Modern Portfolio Theory) Statistics 3 Years Statistic RWIFX Category Alpha (against Standard Index) 4.13 5.19 Beta (against Standard Index) 0.87 0.85 Mean Annual Return 0.68 0.76 R-squared (against Standard Index) 95.16 86.55 Standard Deviation 17.40 17.88 Sharpe Ratio 0.47 0.53 Treynor Ratio 7.89 10.04 5 Years Statistic RWIFX Category Alpha (against Standard Index) 2.91 2.36 Beta (against Standard Index) 0.87 0.89 Mean Annual Return 0.02 -0.03 R-squared (against Standard Index) 96.30 89.30 Standard Deviation 20.80 22.04...
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...The performance evaluation employs different methods namely Sharpe, Treynor, and Jensen indices. Analysis revealed that different methods yield different result. In order to enrich evaluation, Modigliani-risk adjusted performance metric and qualitative approach were included in the analysis. By using the mix criteria, it was found that the best investment is Schoder 90 Plus Equity Fund followed by Manulife Dana Saham and Mandiri Investa Dynamic Equity. This findings show that even though stock market performed negatively over the period, stock-based mutual fund may yield slightly better than the market. Key Words: Mutual Fund, Sharpe Index, Treynor Index, Jansen Index, M2. I. INTRODUCTION This paper aims at measuring portfolio performance of stock-based mutual funds from three different investment manager over the period of January 1, 2015 – July 30, 2015. Three randomly mutual fund was chosen, namely Schoder 90 Plus Equity Fund (Schroder Investment Management Indonesia), Mandiri Investa Dynamic Equity (Mandiri Manajemen Investasi), and Manulife Dana Saham (Manulife Aset Manajemen Indonesia). In the first step, all mutual funds data evaluated using Sharpe, Treynor, and Jensen indices. In the second step, other methods were introduced to test whether alternative evaluation give similar result. To conclude, all result from step one and step two evaluation would be presented in a radar or web chart to show relative performance of each mutual fund with respect...
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...Judge the Risk by Portfolio When the investors put their money into the stock market, it means that they must take the risk of the stock market, because risk is one of the natural qualities of the stock market. One company easy to get a poor performance and its stocks will go down. Therefore, there will be no way to complete avoid risk, but judge it. In finance, risk is best judged in a portfolio context. Because the possibility that many companies gets serious performances, and their stock price go down at the same time is lower than for only one company. This essay will discuss that why the portfolio context is the best way to judge the risk in the finance market. The first part will introduce the basic theories for portfolios. The methods of measuring risks and value of the portfolio will be explained in the second part to demonstrate that why it is better select portfolios. The third part will give the example of family groupings on performance of portfolio selection in the Hong Kong stock market. The conclusion will be given at the end of the essay. Firstly, the theory of portfolio and the five suppositions of portfolio selection need to be explained before the following discussion of the value of portfolios. The article ‘Portfolio Selection’, which was issued on Journal of Finance in 1952 and the book ‘Portfolio Selection: Efficient Diversification of Investments’ which was published in 1959 was known as the opening if the modern portfolio theory. The author of these...
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...long haul contributing is the conservation of capital. Warren Buffett, ostensibly the world's most excellent mogul, has one standard when contributing - never lose cash. This doesn't mean you ought to offer your venture property the minute they enter losing region, yet you ought to remain definitely mindful of your portfolio and the losses you're ready to persevere in an exertion to expand your riches. While it is difficult to stay away from danger completely when putting resources into the business sectors, these five strategies can help protect your portfolio. One of the foundations of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is diversification. In a business downturn, MPT pupils accept a generally expanded portfolio will beat a thought one. Speculators make deeper and all the more extensively broadened portfolios by owning countless in more than one asset class, along these lines decreasing unsystematic danger. This is the hazard that accompanies putting resources into a specific organization instead of deliberate danger, which is the danger connected with putting resources into the businesses by and large. As per some money related specialists, stock portfolios that incorporate 12, 18 or even 30 stocks can take out most, if not all, unsystematic danger. Shockingly, methodical danger is constantly present and can't be differentiated away. On the other hand, by including non-associating asset classes, for example, securities, items, monetary standards and land to a gathering...
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...Tradeoff,” “Diversification,” “Dollar Cost Averaging,” “Asset Allocation,” “Random Walk Theory,” “Efficient Market Hypothesis,” “The Optimal Portfolio,” and “Capital Asset Pricing Model” (Investopedia, 2010, p. 1-8). The Risk/Return Tradeoff concept is also known by another name. This name is “the ability-to-sleep-at-night-test.” Although some individuals can deal with the ups and downs of the financial market, some fear that they may fall off the ladder. With this, the investment’s risk will come into play. The company needs to decide how much risk will be necessary for them to be comfortable with their investments. The definition of risk in the investing world is the chance that in point of fact the return on the investment will be different from expected. Standard Deviation in statistics is the measurement used in this instant. In other words, risk means that there is a possibility of losing part or all of the original investment. So if this is the meaning of risk, then risk/return tradeoff means that there must be a balance between the lowest of risk and the highest of return (Investopedia, 2010). Diversification is another concept that the business uses. This is a technique that is used to mix a wide variety of investments that can be found in a portfolio to minimize the impact that any of the securities that can be found in a portfolio will have on the performance of that same investment....
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...PORTFOLIO CHECK SHEET/100 POINTS POSSIBLE The items listed on this page are worth a maximum of 74 points. Points will be deducted for each missing item. Items should appear in the order listed below. Required Artifacts ________ 3-ring notebook—organized into useable sections (2 points) ________ A title page with your name either on the outside of the portfolio or immediately inside (4 points). Do not add a date. ________ Resume and employment documentation (10 points) ________ A section for you to add documents/artifacts from your major. This section might be empty right now, but it should be there for future coursework. It should be labeled with the name of your major—not the word “Major.” (5 points) ________ Computer skills samples including Excel (5 points) word processing (5 points), PowerPoint (5 points) and any other software artifacts you might have. Note: word processing needs to be included in the computer section even if you have Word documents in other parts of your portfolio as well. Separate multiple pages of artifacts so each page is displayed for easy review* ________ Writing samples (10 points) Separate pages to display each page of your work.* (Must include two writing samples. These samples are intended to demonstrate writing ability, not word processing skills.) ________ Syllabus (plus any from previously taken courses)—put in a back section or pocket (no sleeves needed) (3 points) ________...
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