Say you own an asset that had a total return last year of 10.3
percent. If the inflation rate last year was 4.1 percent, what was
your real return? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter
your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g.,
32.16.)
Say you own an asset that had a total return last year of 16
percent. If the inflation rate last year was 5.5 percent, what was
your real return? Multiple Choice • 9.85% • 9.95% • -9.05% • 10.05%
• 10.15%
Say you own an asset that had a total return last year of 10.7
percent. If the inflation rate last year was 4.9 percent, what was
your real return? (Do not round intermediate calculations
and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places,
e.g., 32.16.)
Real return
%
Say you own an asset that had a total return last year of 14
percent. If the inflation rate last year was 5.5 percent, what was
your real return?
Multiple Choice
7.96%
8.16%
8.26%
-7.46%
8.06%
Say you own an asset that had a total return last year of 16 percent. Assume the inflation rate last year was 3.8 percent. What was your real return? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Real return = _______ %
You have been given the following return data,
Expected Return
Year
Asset F
Asset G
Asset H
2018
17%
16%
13%
2019
18%
15%
14%
2020
19%
14%
15%
2021
20%
13%
16%
Alternative
Investment
1
100%
of asset F
2
55%
of asset F and
45%
of asset G
3
55%
of asset F and
45%
of asset H
F, G, and H over the period 2018 2021. Using these assets, you
have isolated three investment alternatives:
a. Calculate...
You own a stock with an average return of 18.7 percent and a
standard deviation of 19.6 percent. In any one given year, you have
a 95 percent chance that you will not lose more than ________
percent nor earn more than ________ percent on this stock.
A) 57.9; 20.5
B) 20.5; 38.3
C) 20.5; 57.9
D) 0.9; 57.9
E) 0.9; 38.3
The Wall Street Journal provides the net asset value, the
year-to-date percent return, and the three-year percent return for
748 mutual funds.† Assume that a simple random sample of 12 of the
748 mutual funds will be selected for a follow-up study on the size
and performance of mutual funds. Use the first column of the table
of random numbers, beginning with 63271, to select the simple
random sample of 12 mutual funds. Begin with mutual fund 271 and
use...
Suppose Ace, over the last few years, has had an 18 percent
average return on equity (ROE) and has paid out 20 percent of its
net income as dividends. Under what conditions could this
information be used to help estimate the firm’s expected future
growth rate, g? Estimate ks using this procedure for determining
g