Chapter 1: Q12I. (page 105)
If the offering price of an open-end fund is $12.30 per share and the fund is sold with a front-end load of 5%, what is its net asset value?
$11.69
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Why are high-tax-bracket investors more inclined to invest in municipal bonds than are low-bracket investors?
Log on to finance.yahoo.com and enter the ticker symbol “RRD” in the Get Quotes box to find information about R.R. Donnelley & Sons.
a. Click on company Profile. What is Donnelly’s main line of business?
b. Now go to Key Statistics. How many shares of the company’s stock are outstanding? What is the total market value of the firm? What were its profits in the most recent fiscal year?
c. Look up Major Holders of the company’s stock. What fraction of total shares is held by insiders?
d. Now go to Analyst Opinion. What is the average price target (i.e., the predicted stock price of the Donnelly shares) of the analysts covering this firm? How does that compare to the price at which the stock is currently trading?
e. Look at the company’s Balance Sheet. What were its total assets at the end of the most recent fiscal year?
Suppose you short-sell 100 shares of IBM, now selling at \(200 per share.
a. What is your maximum possible loss?
b. What happens to the maximum loss if you simultaneously place a stop-buy order at \)210?
Suppose you observe the investment performance of 350 portfolio managers for five years and rank them by investment returns during each year. After five years, you find that 11 of the funds have investment returns that place the fund in the top half of the sample in each and every year of your sample. Such consistency of performance indicates to you that these must be the funds whose managers are in fact skilled, and you invest your money in these funds. Is your conclusion warranted?
How do security dealers earn their profits?
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