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A fund's risk appetite is such that it wants to be 97.5% certain it will not lose more than 25% in any one year. Using the performance of the S&P 500 between 1997 and 2016 (see Table 27.2), determine...
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A fund of funds divides its money between five hedge funds that earn –5%, 1%, 10%, 15%, and 20% before fees in a particular year. The fund of funds charges 1 plus 10% and the hedge funds charge 2 plus...
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Suppose that the principals assigned to the senior, mezzanine, and equity tranches for the ABSs and ABS CDO in Figure 6.4 are 70%, 20%, and 10% instead of 75%, 20%, and 5%. How are the results in Tabl...
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Regulators calculate that DLC bank (see Section 2.2) will report a profit that is normally distributed with a mean of $0.6 million and a standard deviation of $2.0 million. How much equity capital in...
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The expected return on the market is 12% and the risk-free rate is 7%. The standard deviation of the return on the market is 15%. One investor creates a portfolio on the efficient frontier with an exp...
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Good years are followed by equally bad years for a mutual fund. It earns +8%, –8%, +12%, and –12% in successive years. What is the investor’s overall return for the four years?
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