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• BUS 405 Entire Course

• BUS 405 Week 1 Assignment Annualized Returns
  Chapter 3 problem 18

• Annualized Returns Complete problem 18 in Chapter
  3 (shown below) and submit to the instructor.
  Show your work to find the annualized return for
  each of the listed share prices. Write a 100 word
  analysis of the process to calculate these
  annualized returns.

• BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 1 Blumes Formula, Allocation,
  and Selection
• BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 2 Money Market Funds
• BUS 405 Week 1 Quiz Chapters 1-4
• BUS 405 Week 1 Assignment Annualized Returns
  Chapter 3 problem 18

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• BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 1 Blumes Formula, Allocation,
  and Selection

• BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 2 Money Market Funds

• Money Market Funds From Chapter 4, complete
  Problem 4 The Aqua Liquid Assets Money Market
  Mutual Fund has a NAV of 1 per share. During the
  year, the assets held by this fund appreciated by
  2.5 percent. If you had invested 50,000 in this
  fund at the start of the year, how many shares
  would you own at the end of the year?

• Blumes Formula, Allocation, and Selection From
  Chapter 1, answer Concept Question 5 What is
  Blumes formula? When would you want to use it in
  practice? Also, from Chapter 2, answer Concept
  Question 4 What is the difference between asset
  allocation and security selection?

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• BUS 405 Week 1 Quiz Chapters 1-4

• BUS 405 Week 2 Assignment Abbott Laboratories
  Problem

• Abbott Laboratories Problem After reading the
  Value Line figures and information on Abbott
  Laboratories in the Questions and Problems
  section of Chapter 6 (just before Problem 27),
  complete Problems 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31 and
  submit to your instructor.

• BUS 405 Week 1 Quiz Chapters 1-4

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• BUS 405 Week 2 DQ 1 Primary and Secondary Markets

• BUS 405 Week 2 DQ 2 Contrarian Investing

• Contrarian Investing Complete Concept Question 9
  from Chapter 8 What does it mean to be a
  contrarian investor? How would a contrarian
  investor use technical analysis? Post your
  answers to the discussion board. Remember to
  complete all parts of the question and support
  your answers with examples from the text and
  other resources.

• Primary and Secondary Markets Complete Concept
  Question 1 from Chapter 5 If you were to visit
  your local Chevrolet retailer, there is both a
  primary and a secondary market in action.
  Explain. Is the Chevy retailer a dealer or a
  broker?

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• BUS 405 Week 2 Quiz Chapters 5-8

• BUS 405 Week 3 Assignment Bootstrapping Chapter
  10 Problem 31

• Bootstrapping Complete problem 31 of Chapter 10
  (shown below), and submit to your instructor.
  Show your calculations and the algebraic
  manipulation of the price equation for the bond.
  In addition to solving the problem, write a 100
  to 200 word essay on the term structure of fixed
  income securities.

• BUS 405 Week 2 Quiz Chapters 5-8

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• BUS 405 Week 3 DQ 1 Forward Interest Rates

• BUS 405 Week 3 DQ 2 Bond Prices versus Yields

• Bond Prices versus Yields Complete Concept
  Question 9 of Chapter 10 (a) What is the
  relationship between the price of a bond and its
  YTM? (b) Explain why some bonds sell at a premium
  to par value, and other bonds sell at a discount

• Forward Interest Rates. Complete Problem 16 from
  the Questions and Problems section of Chapter 9
  According to the pure expectations theory of
  interest rates, how much do you expect to pay for
  a one-year STRIP on February 15, 2011? What is
  the corresponding implied forward rate?

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• BUS 405 Week 3 Quiz Chapters 9-10

• BUS 405 Week 4 Assignment Performance Metrics
  Chapter 13 Problem 22

• Performance Metrics Complete Problem 22 in the
  Questions and Problems section of Chapter 13
  (shown below). When you pick the best choice for
  your portfolio, defend your decision in a 100 -
  200 word essay.
• You have been given the following return
  information for two mutual funds (Papa and Mama),
  the market index, and the risk-free rate.

• BUS 405 Week 3 Quiz Chapters 9-10

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• BUS 405 Week 4 DQ 1 Expected Returns and Deviation

• BUS 405 Week 4 DQ 2 Portfolio Weights

• Portfolio Weights Complete Problem 10 from the
  Questions and Problems section of Chapter 12 A
  stock has a beta of .9 and an expected return of
  9 percent. A risk-free asset currently earns 4
  percent.
• a. What is the expected return on a portfolio
  that is equally invested in the two assets?

• Expected Returns and Deviation Complete Problems
  1, 2, and 3 from the Questions and Problems
  section of Chapter 11 (shown below). Remember to
  complete all parts of the questions, and report
  the results of your analysis. Respond to at least
  two of your classmates postings outside of your
  own thread.

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• BUS 405 Week 4 Quiz Chapters 11-13

• BUS 405 Week 5 DQ 1 Hedging with Futures

• Hedging with Futures Complete Concept Question 7
  from Chapter 14 The town of South Park is
  planning a bond issue in six months and Kenny,
  the town treasurer, is worried that interest
  rates may rise, thereby reducing the value of the
  bond issue.

• BUS 405 Week 4 Quiz Chapters 11-13

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• BUS 405 Week 5 DQ 2 Option Strategies

• BUS 405 Week 5 Final Project Construct a
  well-diversified portfolio

• Focus of the Final Project
• The student will construct a well-diversified
  portfolio using an initial investment stake of
  50,000 (the portfolio should use 95 of the
  fund, but they may not use more than 50,000).
  The student may include stocks, common or
  preferred bonds, corporate or U.S. Treasury
  bonds mutual funds and futures contract or
  options.

• Option Strategies Complete Concept Question 12
  from Chapter 15 Recall the options strategies of
  a protective put and covered call discussed in
  the text. Suppose you have sold short some shares
  of stock. Discuss analogous option strategies and
  how you would implement them.

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