... Disregarded professor’s directions and failed to complete a significant part of the assignment. Did not complete the ePortfolio assignment. Creative Use of Technology Innovative use of graphics, sounds, e-mail, links, additional software and Internet resources: superior presentation. Several creative sounds, graphics, and links used; presentation: keeps readers attention. Some uses of interesting sounds and graphics: predictable presentation. No evidence of independent resources: monotonous presentation. Did not complete the ePortfolio assignment. Attractiveness & Organization Graphics, colors, font size attractive and easy to read: enhances the portfolio Graphics, colors, font size appropriate. Graphics, colors, font size slightly distracting or adds little to the portfolio...
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...W14232 INVESTMENTS: DELINEATING AN EFFICIENT PORTFOLIO Upasana Mitra and M. Kannadhasan wrote this case solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. This publication may not be transmitted, photocopied, digitized or otherwise reproduced in any form or by any means without the permission of the copyright holder. Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Business School, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, N6G 0N1; (t) 519.661.3208; (e) cases@ivey.ca; www.iveycases.com. Copyright © 2014, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation Version: 2014-06-20 Hi Rahul! I want your advice in suggesting a portfolio of mutual fund for investment of my retirement fund. Last year, when I retired, I invested the full amount in a balanced fund. As it was a diversified fund, I thought that investment in one balanced fund would allow me to diversify my investment and I would get a decent return. Unfortunately, the fund has given negative return in spite of the fact that the stock index during the period has gone up by 5 per cent. Being a retired person, I cannot take much risk but would like to get...
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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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...stock 2 and that of correlation between stock 1 and 2 prices on the overall portfolio risk. Introduction Standard deviation (SD) is used to measure risk by determining the volatility of a stock. It is a statistical term that measures the amount of variability around an average mean price. Correlation measures the relationship between two variables. Coefficient of Correlation can range between -1 and +1 depending on the degree and direction of the relationship. Positive correlation denotes that both stocks will follow similar movement whereas negative correlation denotes the opposite relationship. Portfolio risk is used to measure risk when investing in more than one security, where it can be reduced but never eliminated. Method 1. I chose two companies from the FTSE 100: BP (Stock 1) and HSBC (Stock 2) keeping in mind the dependency between them. I made sure I used companies from different industries to minimize the unsystematic risk. 2. I obtained prices of each stock and correspondingly calculated the SD of each and the correlation between them. The prices of each stock are from 1-10-2007 to 1-10-2012. 3. I created portfolios with different weights of each stock on current day prices (1-10-2012). 4. Calculated portfolio risk for each possible combination of the two stocks. 5. Changed the SD and correlation coefficient to measure the impact of each on the portfolio risk. Analysis Changes in...
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...Portfolio Management Exercise Report 1. Business Model Woodward, Inc. is an independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control solutions for the aerospace and energy markets. It has significant production and assembly facilities in the United States, Europe and Asia, and promotes its products and services through its worldwide locations. The Woodward, Inc is one of the world’s oldest and largest independent designer and supplier of energy control and optimization solutions. 2. Value Proposition We analyze two points to show Woodward’s value proposition. 2.1 Human Resources Employees of Woodward Inc are experts in their fields, dedicated to creating solutions and a lot of them are located out of United States. It’s believed that the relationships of Woodward’s employees with the representative unions are good. 2.2 Technology Woodward keeps financing their research and development activities and its competitive success is believed to be based on the development of innovative components and systems. 3. The “Moats” We analyze the “moats” according to Porte’s five forces model. 3.1 Threat of Entry New competitors face significant barriers to entry into many of the markets, including various government mandated certification requirements to compete in the aerospace markets in which they participate...
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...Letter of Transmittal Date: November 30, 2010 To Mr. Md. Maksudur Rahman Sarker, FCMA Professor Department of Accounting & Information Systems University of Dhaka Subject: Prayer for granting the Report. Dear Sir, Here is the report on “Personal Portfolio Management”. I shall be pleased to thank you for assigning me such an interesting topic. While dealing with the topic, I have gone through different books on portfolio management, local and international research papers, national dailies, annual reports, stock market websites and other world wide webs. It is a great pleasure for me that I have got a practical orientation with portfolio management and the relevant finance theories. Though I have tried my best to include all deserving and relevant information and discussion in the report, it might be considered insufficient to your expertise. But I think you would be generous enough to evaluate the report with a merciful look considering my attempt and effort. Sincerely Yours, Mohammad Munir Hossen MBA-EVENING ID No. 10814062 Department of Accounting & Information Systems University of Dhaka TAble of contents |SL. No. |Topic |Page | | |Executive Summary |v | |1 |Introduction ...
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...risk of investors, our objective is to maximize the return while minimizing the overall risk level of the investment to accomplish the maximized wealth. The major reason behind high level tolerance for risk is the return expected through the investment is high. Always we tried to maintain better relationship between the expected return and cost of investment. Except our main objective there are some co-objectives those are, * Mitigation of Risk To construct efficient and well diversified portfolio three persons are joined together through that we can manage and bear risk among us. On the other hand single marital status, young age and relax feeling of family responsibilities rub up the high tolerance level for risk. * Maintain an appropriate degree of portfolio diversification We will maintain efficient diversification portfolio at all time and it should be matches with the reasonable sector allocation. * Rebalancing of strategic allocation Assets allocation must matches the portfolio risk tolerance But as rational investors we cannot rely upon the stable objectives and time to time based on economic conditions objectives may differ. Therefore we have to alter our objectives according to economic condition to obtain highest return while maintaining lower risk....
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...FINANCE PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS FINAL WORK DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION OF THE PORTFOLIO THEORY Abstract The main objective of the work is to construct, through application of the Portfolio theory, an efficient frontier which represents a set of portfolios with optimum risk-return ratio for ten companies from Mexican IPC. The sample used in this work is composed of the most representative companies in this index. A descriptive analysis of the behavior of the stocks included in this study is carried out using the binomial risk-return, which significantly contributes in selecting the most suitable stocks to be included in the portfolio. The work is concluded with finding an optimal portfolio for a risk adverse investor. The main conclusions from study are the poor performance of the construction sector, which holds the lowest returns, the highest risk and negative performance ratios, and the usefulness of the theory of portfolios to get a set of portfolios with higher returns and lower risk than the general Mexican IPC index that represents the market. The importance of diversification of assets is also noted. Keywords: Portfolio theory, Efficient Frontier, Risk-Return, Minimum Variance, Portfolio Contents 1. Introduction 6 1.1 Introduction 6 1.2 Goals 7 1.3 Methodology 7 1.4 Structure 9 2. Theoretical Framework 11 2.1 Risk and Return 11 2.1.1 Portfolio’s Expected Return 12 2.1.2 Portfolio Risk (Standard Deviation) 13 2.2 Diversification...
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...SUMMARY Today’s business world is so much competitive as a result every person has to be very cautious while taking an investment decision. Various types of analysis are performed by the investors to choose the most perfect securities. In a portfolio construction a person analysis the whole macro as well as micro economic scenario of a nation, in industry analysis the industry condition, movement is closely examined and in a company analysis the specific firm is analyzed to take a decision. This are steps of fundamental analysis.. In this report all this are performed on ten firms. Our selected firms are from different industries. All of these companies’ shares are category A shares in DSE. We have collected our necessary information from primary and secondary sources. In our entire report we try to focus on portfolio construction from an investor’s perspective. We have divided the topics of the report into different segments. First we have discussed about the origin of the report, objectives and scope of the study, the method of preparing the report, limitation of the study. Then we have chosen the companies. At first we did the macro economic analysis, than industry analysis and last company analysis. Then we constructed the portfolio including with and without short sells. After all analysis we have given our suggestion as well as findings and conclude our report with a conclusion. ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------...
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...that is owing eight stocks will produce an improved return/risk product over time versus owing one stock. Therefore, in evaluating a portfolio it is critically important to compare returns and risks involved; but in order to compare and evaluate returns and risks the investor has to know how to calculate these two important criteria (Markowitz, 1970). The return of a stock is based on its current price, its expected price plus distributed dividends. Therefore, if the current price of a stock is $40.00, its expected market price, let us say after a year, is increased to $50.00 and the distributed dividends amount to $5.00, its return is calculated as: [(Pt-Po) + DIV]/Po; Po is the current price of the stock, Pt is the price of the stock after one year and DIV are the distributed dividends per share. Substituting the above assumed numbers into the equation we have [($50-$40) +$5]/$40 = 0.25 or 25%. The risk of a stock is mainly measured by the standard deviation (Markowitz, 1987). In the case of a portfolio the expected return is the weighted average return of the returns of all the stocks included in the portfolio. The weight represents the amount that has been invested in each of the stocks included in the portfolio (Markowitz, 1987). Based on the above the basic formula is ERp = W1R1 + W2R2. The symbol ERp represents the return of the portfolio p; W1 and W2 represent the amounts (expressed in percentages) invested in stocks A and B; R1 and R2 represent the returns of stocks...
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...4-5 Single-Index Model………………………………………………………………………..5 Geometric Mean…………………………………………………………………………….6 Recommendations…………………………………………………………………………………6-7 Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………7 Appendix A………………………………………………………………………………………………8 References……………………………………………………………………………………………….9 Client Description Joe Schedin is 45-years-old, who has spent the last 18 years working for Costco as a meat cutter. He will be switching jobs as he wants to do something new and more exciting so he will be able to contribute $110,000 to add to the current portfolio. He wants to be able to retire in 20 years, by age 65, and would like to have at least a million dollars for retirement as well as a surplus of greater than or at least $40,000 in order to pay for his new step-son’s college fund. He would like to be able to only use about half of the retirement to live off of, and keep the rest either invested in his portfolio, or set up college funds, IRA’s, etc. to help his family with his grandchildren and give them a chance for a higher education. With this information I was able to calculate a yearly rate of return needed to generate at least $1.1 million dollars with the initial investment of $152,212, compounded over 20 years. The minimum yearly rate of return needed is 10.4 percent. This number assumes the returns on the stocks will not vary and stay constant over time. When Joe and I were going over the numbers, I advised we add five percent to compensate for economic...
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...Portfolio Analysis A portfolio is a combination of securities. Portfolio analysis provides a framework by which the investors can identify optimal portfolios from a universe of infinite portfolios. Investors need to estimate the expected return and variance of each security under consideration for inclusion in the portfolio along with all the covariances between securities. With these measures the investors proceed to calculate the expected return and risk of alternative portfolios to evaluate their desirability and derive a set of efficient portfolios. Notations wi = percentage of investor’s funds invested in security i wj = percentage of investor’s funds invested in security j [pic] = expected return on security i [pic] = expected return on security j (2i = variance of return on security i (2j = variance of return on security j (ij = covariance of return on security i and j (ij = correlation of return on security i and j [pic] = expected return on the portfolio (2p = variance of return on the portfolio 2-Security Case The expected return of a portfolio is an weighted average of the expected return of the securities, where the weights are percentage of investor’s funds invested in the securities: [pic] = wi [pic] + wj [pic] The variance of a portfolio is a weighted average of the variance of the individual securities plus the covariance between the two securities in the portfolio: (2p = w2i (2i + w2j (2j + 2wi...
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...Portfolio Strategy Assignment Demetrie M. Howard University of Phoenix Introduction The organization I have chosen to plan a portfolio strategy for is O’Connor and Associates. This organization is my current employer and it will be a challenge to create one for them. The organization is a property tax firm, it assist clients with reducing the appraised value of their property, which in turn reduces the amount of property taxes due. The organization is diversifying; it is going into third party collections, judgment recovery, and mortgage loans. This firm has made substantial errors in the past therefore to understand the cause and effect of those errors we will attempt to model their market and business behaviour. This model is an effort to estimate the expected results of alternative strategies and processes. Consumer expectations and other variables as well as technology, the internet, telecommunications and globalization have accelerated the pace of change, and shortened product lifecycles has contributed to this strategic plan. Technology has augmented the capability to amass information and respond to change immediately and analytically. It is also important for corporations to achieve and maintain their competitive advantages. Cash Infusion The cash infusion allocated to enhance the company and to manage is $40 million dollars. Following is the description of portfolio strategy and a portfolio of assets in relation to the investment of $40 million...
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...The optimal risky portfolio asked me to shortsell the market for -1.6081 and invest 280.1% of my investable wealth in the active portfolio. Within the active portfolio itself, among 16 different tickers that I chose, my optimal weights were to invest in Kraft, General Mills, Visa, and Walmart. Running a regression of Risky Portfolio HPR against Market Portfolio HPR, we obtain the below line fit plot. Though the fit may not look all that bad, it is actually quite low with a R^2 of roughly 0.3. This does not come as too big of a surprise, though, as the risky portfolio utilizes active portfolio management that itself aims to break from the market. Also, the 16 tickers I used in this exercise could not possibly reflect all of the movements of the S&P market index. To extend our analysis of the relationship between the risky portfolio and market portfolio, we consult the following graph modeling their quantitative movements over roughly the past four months. As one would expect, the Risky HPR fluctuates a lot wilder than the Market HPR does. However, it does not consistently stray in any one direction away from 0%. Interestingly, looking at the dollar paths tells us a completely unexpected story. Usually we would expect an actively managed, risky portfolio to generate higher returns (barring transaction fees) than a passive, market portfolio. Yet here, we see that the dollar path of the market in fact outgrows the dollar path of the risky portfolio. In fact, by the...
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