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alternative investments HC1
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What are financial assets?Financial assets are claims to the income generated
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What is productive capacity a function of?Real assets (land, building, machines etc)
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How do governments finance their activities?Government bonds
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What are characteristics of equity?1) Ownership share in corporation
2) Income determined by dividends or by increase/decrease stock price
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What is available on the primary market?1) Newly issued securities
2) Stocks ; IPO, Seasoned/secondary equity offering
3) Investment bankers and underwriting
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What does the Firm-Foundation theory mean? Name 4 characteristics1) Intrinsic value (IV)
2) Present and past conditions, and future prospects
3) When market price < IV then buy, otherwise sell
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What does the Castle-In-The-Air Theory mean? Name 3 characteristics1) Behaviour of investors
2) When E(future price) > current price then buy, otherwise sell
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How do you measure stock return?Rt = 100 * ((Divt +Pt -P(t-1))/P(t-1))
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Alternative Investment HC2
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What is the weak form of EMH?Security prices reflect all price history information
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Alternative Investments HC4
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Name 4 ways to measure the performance of an investment?
- Sharpe ratio
- Comparison with benchmark
- Comparison against a static strategy
- Using asset pricing model
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