Investments 1. (1 point) You want to purchase XYZ stock at $60 from your broker using as little of your own money as possible. If initial margin is 50% and you have $3000 to invest, how many shares can you buy? A) 100 shares B) 200 shares C) 50 shares D) 500 shares E) 25 shares Ans: A Rationale: 3000 / [60 * 50%] = 100 2. (1 point)You sold short 300 shares of common stock at $55 per share. The initial margin is 60%, which was exactly met. At what (closest) stock price would you receive a margin call if the maintenance margin is 35%? A) $51 B) $69 C) $62 D) $45 Ans: B Rationale: $ 55 + $ 55 * [60%-35%] = $ 68.75 3. (1/2 point) Which of the following countries has an equity index that lies on the efficient frontier generated by allowing international diversification? A) the United States B) the United Kingdom C) Japan D) Norway E) none of the above œ each of these countries' indexes fall inside the efficient frontier. Ans: 4. E (1 point) What is an ETF? Give two examples of specific ETFs. What are some advantages they have over ordinary open-end mutual funds? What are some disadvantages? Investments Ans: Exchange-traded fund‘s allow investors to trade index portfolios. Some examples are spiders (SPDR), which track the S&P500 index, diamonds (DIA), which track the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and qubes (QQQ), which track the Nasdaq 100 index. Other examples are listed in Table 4-3, page 117. (It is anticipated that there may soon be ETFs that track actively managed funds as well ad the current ones that track indexes.) Advantages 1. ETFs may be bought and sold during the trading day at prices that reflect the current value of the underlying index. This is different from ordinary open-end mutual funds, which are bought or sold only at the end of the day NAV. 2. ETFs can be sold short. 3. ETFs can be purchased on margin. 4. ETFs may have tax advantages. Managers are not forced to sell securities from a portfolio to meet redemption demands, as they would be with open-end funds. Small investors simply sell their ETF shares to other traders without affecting the composition of the underlying portfolio. Institutional investors who want to sell their shares receive shares of stock in the underlying portfolio. 5. ETFs may be cheaper to buy than mutual funds because they are purchased from brokers. The fund doesn't have to incur the costs of marketing itself, so the investor incurs lower management fees. Disadvantages: 1. ETF prices can differ from NAV by small amounts because of the way they trade. This can lead to arbitrage opportunities for large traders. 2. ETFs must be purchased from brokers for a fee. This makes them more expensive than mutual funds that can be purchased at NAV. 5. (1 point) An open-end mutual fund had year-end assets of $279,000,000 and liabilities of $43,000,000. If the fund‘s NAV was $42.13, how many shares must have been held in the fund? A) 43,000,000 B) 6,488,372 C) 5,601,709 D) 1,182,203 E) None of the above. Ans: C Rationale: (279‘000 œ 43‘000‘000) / 42.13 = 5‘601‘709 6. (1 point) You have the following information on 4 different securities: Investment 1 Expected Return E(r) 0.12 Standard Deviation σ 0.3 2 3 4 0.15 0.21 0.24 Utility function 0.3 0.16 0.21 U = E ( r ) − A ⋅ 0.005 ⋅ σ 2 Where A = 4.0. Based on the utility function above, which investment (only one position) would you select? A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) cannot tell from the information given Ans: C Rationale: 7. (1/2 point) The straightforward generalization of the simple CAPM to international stocks is problematic because __________. A) inflation risk perceptions by different investors in different countries will differ as consumption baskets differ B) investors in different countries view exchange rate risk from the perspective of different domestic currencies C) taxes, transaction costs and capital barriers across countries make it difficult for investor to hold a world index portfolio D) all of the above E) none of the above. Ans: 8. U for 1 = 0.1182 U for 2 = 0.1482 U for 3 = 0.2095