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

Which of the following are mechanisms that have evolved to mitigate potential agency problems?

I) Compensation in the form of the firm's stock options

II) Hiring bickering family members as corporate spies

III) Underperforming management teams being forced out by boards of directors

IV) Security analysts monitoring the firm closely

V) Takeover threats

A call option allows the buyer to

Assume you purchased 200 shares of GE common stock on margin at $70 per share from your broker. If the initial margin is 55%, how much did you borrow from the broker?

Management fees and other expenses of mutual funds may include?

A portfolio has an expected rate of return of 0.15 and a standard deviation of 0.15. The risk-free rate is 6 percent. An investor has the following utility function: U = E(r) − (A/2)s2. Which value of A makes this investor indifferent between the risky portfolio and the risk-free asset?

Consider a risky portfolio, A, with an expected rate of return of 0.15 and a standard deviation of 0.15, that lies on a given indifference curve. Which one of the following portfolios might lie on the same indifference curve?

You invest \$1000 in a risky asset with an expected rate of return of

0.17 and a standard deviation of 0.40 and a T-bill with a rate of return of

0.04. The slope of the Capital Allocation Line formed with the risky asset and the risk-free asset is equal to

Your client, Bo Regard, holds a complete portfolio that consists of a portfolio of risky assets (P) and T-Bills. The information below refers to these assets.

E(Rp) 12.00 %

Standard Deviation of P 7.20 % T-Bill rate 3.60 %

Proportion of Complete Portfolio in P 80 % Proportion of Complete Portfolio in T-Bills 20 %

Composition of P:

Stock A 40.00 % Stock B 25.00 % Stock C 35.00 % Total 100.00 %

What is the equation of Bo's capital allocation line?

An investor who wishes to form a portfolio that lies to the right of the optimal risky portfolio on the Capital Allocation Line must:

Which of the following portfolio(s) is (are) on the efficient frontier?