1. What is beta?
a. What would you expect from a
low or high beta portfolio?
b. What type of macroeconomic
regimes would help or hurt each portfolio?
c. How to determine if a
portfolio is diversified?
If high tree diversity increases soil stocks of nitrogen and
organic carbon, how would you expect to plant multiple tree species
to affect the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle? Can biodiversity
be considered an ecosystem service? Why or why not?
You
are a fund manager and have a portfolio of high risk stocks. The
beta of a firm is more likely to be high under which two
conditions?
A.
high cylical busniess activity and high operating leverage
B.
high cylical business activity and low operating leverage
C.
low cylical business activity and low financial leverage
D.
low cylical business activity and low operating leverage
E.
low financial leverage and low operating leverage
If
you had a high hematocrit, would you expect your hemoglobin
determination to be high or low?
Wouldn’t a high hematocrit indicate
that the RBCs have a low oxygen carrying capacity (anemic) =
low hemoglobin (?)
1. You are a portfolio manager
with $10 million in stocks. You like the stocks you own, but the
portfolio beta is 1.2 and you are concerned about a market decline.
Your investors expect you to be “fully invested”, so you do not
want to eliminate risk entirely. You decide that you would like to
reduce the portfolio’s beta using futures, but only for the next 3
months. You know that the spot S&P index is at 1900. The
dividend...
1.
a) Which of the following atoms would you expect to be smallest
in the follow set of elements? - K, Na, P, Cl, Ar
b) Which of the following elements is likely to have the biggest
gap between second and third ionization energies? - Na, Mg, Al, Si,
P
c) Which group on the periodic table has the highest electron
affinity (most negative value)
d) Which of the atoms do you expect to have the greatest
electron affinity (that...
If ADH levels are high, you would expect the concentration of
urine to be close to?
a. The concentration of interstitial fluid deep in the
medulla
b. The concentration of fluid at the junction of the cortex and
medulla
c. The concentration of fluid in the superficial cortex
You want to compile a $1,000 portfolio which will be invested in
Stocks A and B plus a risk-free asset. Stock A has a beta of 1.2
and Stock B has a beta of .7. If you invest $300 in Stock A and
want a portfolio beta of .9, how much should you invest in Stock
B?
$700.00
$268.40
300.00
$771.43
$608.15
You want to compile a $1,000 portfolio which will be invested in
Stocks A and B plus a risk-free asset. Stock A has a beta of 1.2
and Stock B has a beta of .7. If you invest $300 in Stock A and
want a portfolio beta of .9, how much should you invest in Stock
B?