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If the average firm-specific risk of a sample of stocks is 32%, what is the remaining firm-specific risk of an equal-weighted portfolio of 16 stocks?

Your fund’s risky portfolio has an expected return of 11% and a standard deviation of 22%. The risk-free rate is 3%. Based on your advice, your client goes with a risky portfolio allocation of 25%. What is the expected return on their complete portfolio?

A stock was bought for $57 and sold for $58 after one year. The stock paid a dividend of $4 during the holding period. What is the holding period return?

A fund manager purchases a stock with [m0]% margin at a margin loan interest rate of 0.[i0] percent per week and a maintenance margin of [mm0] percent. The stock’s price is $[P0] per share and the manager purchases [SHR] shares. What is the highest possible price per share, in one week, that will trigger a margin call?   Enter your answer as a number of dollars, rounded to the nearest $0.01.

Your fund’s risky portfolio has an expected return of 13% and a standard deviation of 23%. The risk-free rate is 6%. Based on your advice, your client goes with a risky portfolio allocation of 25%. What is the expected return on their complete portfolio?

You expect Fund Manager A to produce an alpha of 1% next year. You expect Fund Manager B to produce an alpha of 2% next year. Conclusively, Fund Manager B is the correct choice for you, regardless of your investing strategies or objectives.

Capital allocation refers to:

Cartographic modeling is broader than map algebra because it employes map algebra functions and other spatial analysis functions to perform the analysis.

“In formulating a cartographic model, say to conduct a suitability analysis, different criteria are given different weights, while options within a criterion should be ranked. “

  Given the above three raster layers, using map algebra concepts and functions, what should be the output layers (OutLayer) of the following operations? Provide your answers by cells from left to right, and then top to bottom. Layer C is not used in this question. OutLayer = ZonalAverage(LayerA, (Is.LayerB>=50)) where LayerA is the input layer, and the second parameter of the zonal function defines the zones (or the zone layer).