Answer All Questions (Questions 1-33) On The Quiz Covering F ✓ Solved

Answer all questions (Questions 1-33) on the quiz covering f

Answer all questions (Questions 1-33) on the quiz covering finance topics including returns, systemic risk, beta, CAPM, dividends, bonds, portfolio theory, and efficient markets, selecting the correct option for each.

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  1. Q1. Answer: B) 45%. Explanation: Total return = (Dividends + Ending value − Initial cost) / Initial cost = (400 + 2500 − 2000) / 2000 = 0.45 (45%).
  2. Q2. Answer: A) Labor strike in the oil industry. Explanation: Systemic risk is market-wide; an idiosyncratic event like a single industry's strike is not inherently systemic unless it triggers broader market implications (A may be considered idiosyncratic). This distinction is discussed in standard risk frameworks (Bodie et al., 2014).
  3. Q3. Answer: D) standard deviation (or variance). Explanation: Total risk of a stock held in isolation is typically measured by its variability, i.e., standard deviation or variance (Bodie et al., 2014).
  4. Q4. Answer: A) 8%. Explanation: Market risk premium equals E[Rm] − Rf = 12% − 4% = 8% (CAPM framework; see Sharpe, 1964; Lintner, 1965; Black, 1972).
  5. Q5. Answer: A) US T-Bill rate. Explanation: Beta of zero implies a risk-free rate; CAPM reduces to Rf (Elton et al., 2014; Bodie et al., 2014).
  6. Q6. Answer: A) 1.47. Explanation: Portfolio beta = 0.20×2.3 + 0.30×0.7 + 0.50×1.6 = 0.46 + 0.21 + 0.80 = 1.47 (Bodie et al., 2014).
  7. Q7. Answer: B) The stock has more systematic risk than the overall market. Explanation: A beta greater than 1 indicates higher systematic (market) risk (Bodie et al., 2014).
  8. Q8. Answer: C) $28.57. Explanation: P0 = D1 / (r − g) with D1 = $2 and r = 12%, g = 5% → 2 / (0.12 − 0.05) = 28.57 (Gordon growth model; Damodaran, 2012).
  9. Q9. Answer: D) Coupons are not a liability of the firm. Explanation: Coupons are debt-related payments and are liabilities; the statement is false; other statements align with standard financial economics (Brealey et al., 2017).
  10. Q10. Answer: D) covariance between assets. Explanation: Diversification benefits arise from how assets covary; the covariance term determines the reduction in portfolio risk (Elton et al., 2014).
  11. Q11. Answer: E) $30. Explanation: With a $1,000 par and a 6% coupon, the semiannual coupon is 0.06×1000/2 = $30 (par value conventions; see Bodie et al., 2014).
  12. Q12. Answer: A) discount; discount. Explanation: YTM higher than coupon implies price below par (discount) for both 15% and 13% scenarios (Brealey et al., 2017).
  13. Q13. Answer: C) 13.79%. Explanation: Set after-tax yield equal to municipal yield: 5.0% = 5.8% × (1 − t) → t ≈ 13.79% (Damodaran, 2012).
  14. Q14. Answer: A) True. Explanation: Callable bonds expose the holder to reinvestment risk via call risk; hence they command higher yields (Bodie et al., 2014).
  15. Q15. Answer: E) Zero Coupon bonds sell at par value. Explanation: ZCBs sell at a discount to par; statement E is false; others are generally true (Brealey et al., 2017).
  16. Q16. Answer: D) All the above (A) – (C). Explanation: In strong-form efficiency, no information set—including inside, public, or historical information—can consistently earn abnormal returns (Fama, 1970; Bodie et al., 2014).
  17. Q17. Answer: E) All the above are false. Explanation: A: stocks move on the surprise component; B: historically, small-cap risk premiums are higher; C: return distributions for bonds vs stocks differ; D: portfolio variance includes covariances. Given common misinterpretations, E is correct in this framing (Fama & French, 1992; Elton et al., 2014).
  18. Q18. Answer: C) 0.9%. Explanation: Portfolio return = 0.25×0.06 + 0.55×(−0.04) + 0.20×0.08 = 0.015 − 0.022 + 0.016 = 0.009 = 0.9% (CAPM and portfolio basics; Bodie et al., 2014).
  19. Q19. Answer: D) 1%. Explanation: Arithmetic average = (12% − 8% − 1%) / 3 = 1% (Elton et al., 2014).
  20. Q20. Answer: A) 7.7%. Explanation: E[Rm] = Rf + MRP = 1.2% + 6.5% = 7.7% (CAPM framework; Sharpe, 1964).
  21. Q21. Answer: C) $86.667. Explanation: Price is D quarterly divided by (r/4) = 1.30 / 0.015 = 86.667 (preferred stock valuation; Damodaran, 2012).
  22. Q22. Answer: C) 7.955%. Explanation: Dividend yield ≈ D1/P0 = 3.50/44 ≈ 7.95% (Graham & Dodd-type valuation; Elton et al., 2014).
  23. Q23. Answer: C) Your capital appreciation is positive. Explanation: If there is no dividend, a positive price implies capital gains potential (Damodaran, 2012).
  24. Q24. Answer: D) $75. Explanation: Perpetuity with semiannual payments: PV = 3 / 0.04 = 75 (bonds and perpetuities; Bodie et al., 2014).
  25. Q25. Answer: A) True. Explanation: Long-term bonds generally show greater interest-rate risk than short-term bonds due to higher duration (Brealey et al., 2017).
  26. Q26. Answer: A) Risk is the absence of knowledge of the actual outcome of an event before it happens. Explanation: Risk is more precisely the distribution of possible outcomes and their probabilities; the statement is oversimplified (Merton, 1973; Fama & French, 1992).
  27. Q27. Answer: D) 0.258. Explanation: Weights = 4,000 / (4,000 + 4,500 + 7,000) = 4,000 / 15,500 ≈ 0.258 (portfolio construction basics; Bodie et al., 2014).
  28. Q28. Answer: E) We cannot say any of the above statements. Explanation: Without assuming correlations, the relative preferences cannot be universal; investors’ preferences depend on risk-return trade-offs (Elton et al., 2014).
  29. Q29. Answer: B) $105.122. Explanation: The dividend schedule requires a multi-stage valuation; using D1 = 10.764, D2–D9 = 4.70, then a perpetuity growing at 1.8% after year 9 with r = 6% yields approximately 105.12 (multi-stage dividend model; Damodaran, 2012).
  30. Q30. Answer: E) 0.034467. Explanation: Compute mean and variance from state probabilities; standard deviation ≈ 3.4467% (finance statistics; Elton et al., 2014).
  31. Q31. Answer: B) $1,035.158. Explanation: Price of a quarterly coupon bond with 12 years left (48 quarters), coupon 14.5, YTM per quarter = 5.4%/4 = 1.35%: P ≈ 14.5×[1 − (1.0135)−48]/0.0135 + 1000/(1.0135)48 ≈ 1,035.16 (bond pricing conventions; Brealey et al., 2017).
  32. Q32. Answer: C) 6.54%. Explanation:CAPM: E[R] = Rf + β × MRP = 0.6% + 1.8 × 3.3% = 6.54% (Sharpe, 1964; Lintner, 1965).
  33. Q33. Answer: A) most risk Stock B; most systematic risk Stock C; highest expected return Stock C. Explanation: Highest total risk corresponds to Stock B (largest variance 0.1456); highest systematic risk corresponds to Stock C (beta 3.1); under CAPM, higher beta suggests higher expected return, so Stock C is expected to have the highest return (Fama & French, 1992; Bodie et al., 2014).

Discussion and synthesis. The quiz integrates core ideas from portfolio theory, CAPM, dividend discounting, and fixed-income valuation. Each correct answer reflects standard relationships: diversification reduces risk via covariances, CAPM links expected return to systematic risk, and bond prices move inversely to yields with coupons priced accordingly. The solutions align with canonical texts and peer-reviewed summaries of market efficiency and valuation (Bodie et al., 2014; Brealey et al., 2017; Damodaran, 2012; Fama & French, 1992; Sharpe, 1964; Lintner, 1965; Black, 1972; Elton et al., 2014; Hull, 2018; Merton, 1973).)

Implications for practice. Mastery of these concepts enables precise decision-making for portfolio construction, risk assessment, and asset valuation. In particular, recognizing the difference between systematic and diversifiable risk (Q6, Q7, Q10) informs how to build resilient portfolios (Elton et al., 2014). The math of bonds (Q11–Q15, Q31) highlights how price moves with yield and coupon structure; dividend valuation (Q8, Q12, Q29) underscores how growth, timing, and tax considerations affect stock pricing; and the efficiency debate (Q16–Q18) frames expectations for abnormal returns under different EMH assumptions (Fama, 1970). By integrating these results, finance practitioners can build better investment strategies compliant with established theory (Brealey et al., 2017; Bodie et al., 2014).)

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  • Damodaran, A. (2012). Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset. Wiley.
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