In 2009, Currency and____were the least significant financial assets of Taiwanese households in terms of total value.

In 2009, ________was the most significant financial asset of Taiwanese households in terms of total value.

In 2009, ______of the total assets of Taiwanese households were domestic financial assets.

The smallest component of domestic net worth of Taiwan in 2009 was_______.

Investment bankers perform the following role(s) ________.

Mortgage-backed securities were created when _________began buying mortgage loans from originators and bundling them into large pools that could be traded like any other financial asset.

A mutual fund had NAV per share of \$37.12 on January 1, 2009. On December 31 of the same year the fund's rate of return for the year was 11.0%. Income distributions were \$2.26 and the fund had capital gain distributions of \$1.64. Without considering taxes and transactions costs, what ending NAV would you calculate?

Closed end funds are frequently issued at a ______to NAV and subsequently trade at a ________to NAV.

In a return-standard deviation space, which of the following statements is (are) true for risk-averse investors? (The vertical and horizontal lines are referred to as the expected return-axis and the standard deviation-axis, respectively.) I) An investor's own indifference curves might intersect; II) Indifference curves have negative slopes; III) In a set of indifference curves, the highest offers the greatest utility; IV) Indifference curves of two investors might intersect.

You invest \$100 in a risky asset with an expected rate of return of 0.11 and a standard deviation of 0.20 and a T-bill with a rate of return of 0.03. What percentages of your money must be invested in the risky asset and the risk-free asset, respectively, to form a portfolio with an expected return of 0.08?

As the number of securities in a portfolio is increased, what happens to the average portfolio standard deviation?