A mutual fund manager has a $100 million portfolio with a be…
A mutual fund manager has a $100 million portfolio with a beta of 1.00. The risk-free rate is 4%, and the market risk premium is 6%. The manager expects to receive an additional $50 million, which she plans to invest in additional stocks. After investing the additional funds, she wants the fund’s required and expected return to be 11.00%. What must the average beta of the new stocks be to achieve the target required rate of return?
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A 25-year bond making semi-annual coupon payments of $37.50 is currently trading at a price of $696.71. The face value of the bond is $1000. What is the EAR/EFF of this bond? Please write your answer in percentage terms to two decimal places (7.21 percent is 7.21, not 0.0721)
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Kiplinger’s listed the top 100 public colleges based on many factors. From that list, here is the average debt at graduation for various schools in four selected states. Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim the average (mean) debt at graduation differs for these four states. Results Table New York Virginia California Pennsylvania 14,734 14,524 13,171 18,105 16,000 15,176 14,431 17,051 14,347 12,665 14,689 16,103 14,392 12,591 13,788 22,400 12,500 18,385 15,297 17,976 State the claim and its opposite. State the Null and alternate hypotheses symbolically. Significance level Find the F test statistic. Find the p-value. State the decision State the conclusion
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Listed below are weights (lb) of samples of the contents of cans of regular Coke and Diet Coke. Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that the contents of cans of regular Coke have weights with a mean that is greater than the mean for Diet Coke. Results Table Regular 0.8192 0.8150 0.8163 0.8211 0.8181 0.8247 0.8062 0.8128 0.8172 0.8110 0.8251 0.8264 Results Table Diet 0.7773 0.7758 0.7896 0.7868 0.7844 0.7861 0.7806 0.7830 0.7852 0.7879 0.7881 0.7826 0.7923 0.7852 0.7872 0.7813 Claim: opposite: Null: Alternative: Significance level: Test statistic: P-value: Decision: Conclusion:
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The following data show the yearly budgets for leading business sectors in the United States. Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that there is a significant difference in the mean budgets of the business sectors. The data are in thousands of dollars. Results Table Beverages Electronics Food producers Supportive services 170 46 59 56 128 24 58 37 19 18 33 19 16 14 31 19 12 13 28 17 11 12 22 15 10 10 16 15 State the claim and its opposite. State the Null and alternate hypotheses symbolically. Significance level Find the F test statistic. Find the p-value. State the decision State the conclusion
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