MSc Corporate Finance Dr. Kirak Kim Before we start Main branches of finance Corporate Finance How do we value projects and (optimally) finance them? Asset Pricing How do we price securities more precisely? What’s the difference? Is it a Corporate Finance question or an Asset Pricing question? □ You are the manager of Intel Corp. You are reviewing the proposal for the new plant to be built in China. The new plant requires a large onetime investment but will provide significant
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disclosure of risk mean that a rigorous theoretical model of the relationship between accounting measures and market measures of risk is timely. In this paper such a model is developed. In addition, the assumptions required to develop the model are explicitly identified. By so doing it becomes possible to identify the potential cross-sectional differences which drive the empirical relationship between accounting and market based measures of risk. The model developed highlights a clear relationship between
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approach two major topics on the central debate of asset pricing theory: the returns to value and momentum strategies and also, the comparison of volatility models. Our analysis is divided in two parts: in the first, we provide a monthly view on 115 stocks from the S&P 500 index for the past twenty four years and the respective return premia resulting from value and momentum strategies. In the latter part, the main goal is to test different volatility models by analyzing historical data from Microsoft stocks
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Cheryl Mew FINS2624 – Portfolio Management Semester 1, 2011 L ECTURE 1 – B OND PRICING W HAT IS A BOND? A bond is a claim on some fixed future cash flows. A commonwealth government bond (CGB) is a bond which pays semi-annual coupons, in which the maturity date/ coupon payment date is on the 15th of every month. A zero coupon bond is a bond with no coupons. The important information of a bond: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Transaction date: T Settlement date:T+2 Coupon payment dates
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interaction of cashflows and hurdle rates, and the determinants of firms’ capital structure policies. Unlike previous studies which examine investment decisions by either using survey data or data obtained from financial tapes, we use both sets of data. This approach produced one of our primary findings that there is a hurdle rate premium puzzle, in that hurdle rates used by our sample of firms exceed their cost of capital that we calculate using Compustat data by 5%. We investigate the determinants
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Fin 502 Managerial Finance Andras Fekete PNC’s Weighted Average Cost of Capital Case 5 Due: November 6th, 2006 Prepared for Dr. James Haskins Managerial finance November 5, 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures 3 List of Tables 4 Executive Summary 5 Introduction 6 Statement of Opportunities and Problems 7 Methodology and Analysis 8 Summary and Conclusions 24 Recommendations 25 Works Cited 27 Appendix
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FALL 2013 JOI-KNUTZEN.indd 75 I n the past several years, asset managers have built investment strategies based on historical evidence that lower volatility stocks earn superior risk-adjusted returns. These approaches are being called low volatility, managed volatility, minimum variance, or similar names. They seek to exploit what has been identified in studies by academics and practitioners alike as an equity pricing anomaly. This anomaly joins previously identified persistent stock
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Journal of Business Case Studies – November/December 2010 Volume 6, Number 6 Calculating The Beta Coefficient And Required Rate Of Return For Coca-Cola John C. Gardner, University of New Orleans, USA Carl B. McGowan, Jr., Norfolk State University, USA Susan E. Moeller, Eastern Michigan University, USA ABSTRACT In this paper, we demonstrate how to compute the required rate of return for Coca-Cola using modern portfolio theory with data downloaded from the internet. We demonstrate how to
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PAWEL BILINSKI AND DANIELLE LYSSIMACHOU b1 The Risk Interpretation of the CAPM’s Beta: Evidence from a New Research Method This study tests the validity of using the CAPM beta as a risk control in cross-sectional accounting and finance research. We recognize that high risk stocks should experience either very good or very bad returns more frequently compared to low risk stocks, i.e. high risk stocks should cluster in the tails of the cross-sectional return distribution. Building on this intuition
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