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2. BUS 405 ASH Courses • BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 1 Blumes Formula, Allocation, and Selection • BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 2 Money Market Funds • BUS 405 Week 1 Quiz Chapters 1-4 • Annualized Returns. Complete problem 18 in Chapter 3 (shown below) and submit to the instructor. Show your work to find the annualized return for each of the listed share prices. Write a 100 word analysis of the process to calculate these annualized returns BUS 405 Entire Course BUS 405 Week 1 Assignment Annualized Returns Chapter 3 problem 18

3. BUS 405 ASH Courses • Blume’s Formula, Allocation, and Selection. From Chapter 1, answer Concept Question 5: What is Blume’s formula? When would you • Money Market Funds. From Chapter 4, complete Problem 4: The Aqua Liquid Assets Money Market Mutual Fund has a NAV of $1 per share. During the year, the assets held by this fund appreciated by 2.5 percent. If you had invested $50,000 in this fund BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 1 Blumes Formula, Allocation, and Selection BUS 405 Week 1 DQ 2 Money Market Funds

4. BUS 405 ASH Courses • BUS 405 Week 1 Quiz Chapters 1-4 • Abbott Laboratories Problem. After reading the Value Line figures and information on Abbott Laboratories in the Questions and Problems section of Chapter 6 (just before Problem 27), complete Problems 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31 and submit to your instructor. Show your calculations and in your response to problem 31 write a 100 to 200 word defense BUS 405 Week 1 Quiz Chapters 1-4 BUS 405 Week 2 Assignment Abbott Laboratories Problem

5. BUS 405 ASH Courses • Primary and Secondary Markets. Complete Concept Question 1 from Chapter 5: If you were to visit your local Chevrolet retailer, there is both a primary and a secondary market in action. Explain. Is the Chevy retailer a dealer or a broker? Remember to complete all parts of the question and support your answers with examples from the text and other resources • Contrarian Investing. Complete Concept Question 9 from Chapter 8: What does it mean to be a contrarian investor? How would a contrarian investor use technical analysis? Post your answers to the discussion board. Remember to complete all parts of the question BUS 405 Week 2 DQ 1 Primary and Secondary Markets BUS 405 Week 2 DQ 2 Contrarian Investing

6. BUS 405 ASH Courses • BUS 405 Week 2 Quiz Chapters 5-8 • Bootstrapping. Complete problem 31 of Chapter 10 (shown below), and submit to your instructor. Show your calculations and the algebraic manipulation of the price equation for the bond. In addition to solving the problem, write a 100 to 200 word BUS 405 Week 2 Quiz Chapters 5-8 BUS 405 Week 3 Assignment Bootstrapping Chapter 10 Problem 31

7. BUS 405 ASH Courses • Forward Interest Rates. Complete Problem 16 from the Questions and Problems section of Chapter 9: According to the pure expectations • Bond Prices versus Yields. Complete Concept Question 9 of Chapter 10: (a) What is the relationship between the price of a bond and its YTM BUS 405 Week 3 DQ 1 Forward Interest Rates BUS 405 Week 3 DQ 2 Bond Prices versus Yields

8. BUS 405 ASH Courses • BUS 405 Week 4 Quiz Chapters 11-13 • Hedging with Futures. Complete Concept Question 7 from Chapter 14: The town of South Park is planning a bond issue in six months and Kenny, the town treasurer, is worried that interest rates may rise, thereby reducing the value of the bond issue. Should Kenny buy or sell Treasury bond futures contracts to hedge the impending bond issue? Remember to complete BUS 405 Week 4 Quiz Chapters 11-13 BUS 405 Week 5 DQ 1 Hedging with Futures

9. BUS 405 ASH Courses • Option Strategies. Complete Concept Question 12 from Chapter 15: Recall the options strategies of a protective put and covered call discussed in the text. Suppose you have sold short some shares of stock. Discuss analogous option strategies and how you would implement them. (Hint: They’re called protective calls and covered puts.) Remember • Focus of the Final Project • The student will construct a well-diversified portfolio using an initial investment stake of $50,000 (the portfolio should use 95% of the BUS 405 Week 5 DQ 2 Option Strategies BUS 405 Week 5 Final Project Construct a well-diversified portfolio

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