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XYZ stock price and dividend history are as follows:Year Beginning-of-Year Price Dividend Paid at Year-End2013 .....................$100.............. $42014 ......................120
What is the Treynor performance measure for portfolio P?
What is the Sharpe performance measure for portfolio Q?
A portfolio of stocks generates a - 9% return in 2013, a 23% return in 2014, and a 17% return in 2015. What is the annualized return (geometric mean) for the entire period?
What is the least-risky asset for each of the following investors?a. A person investing for her 3-year-old child's college tuition.b. A defined benefit pension fund with benefit obligations that have
Jarvis University (JU) is a private, multiprogram U.S. university with a $2 billion endowment fund as of fiscal year-end May 31, 2019. With little government support, JU is heavily dependent on its
Why did it take until the 1970s for the field of financial planning to begin?
What does a financial planner do?
Name some common financial problems with which planners deal with?
How do you think the financial planner will be of the most help to Dan and Laura? Be specific and explain why.
What is a contributing factor for the increasing demand for financial planners?
Do you think the amount of information available on the Internet regarding advice for financial planning is beneficial or detrimental to the financial planning career? Support your answer with
Do you believe Maria needed a financial planner? Why or why not?
How does household finance tie into financial planning?
Why does personal financial planning involve other disciplines as shown in Figure 1.3? Give some practical examples of their use.Figure 1.3: Origins of Personal Financial Planning
What are the differences between financial planning and a financial plan?
Describe the personal financial planning process and relate it to planning procedures?
Contrast a segmented and a comprehensive financial plan?
Describe some similarities and differences between a financial planning practitioner and a physician?
Why is integration so important in financial planning?
List and discuss the parts of a financial plan?
Sam went to a financial planner who proceeded to give him written recommendations in all areas of financial planning. Is that a financial plan? If not, what might be missing?
You receive a phone call from someone you have not spoken to recently. The caller is excited, having just heard that a brand new mutual fund is positioned to deliver large gains in the coming year.
Arrange the following financial planning functions in the logical order in which these functions are performed by a professional financial planner. 1. Interview clients, identify preliminary goals 2.
1. What do you think of Brad and Barbara's seeking help for Brad's parents? 2. What prompted Richard to seek assistance? Was it only because of Brad and Barbara? 3. What type of financial plan seems
What is compounding, and why is it important?
How is the Rule of 72 a helpful tool?
What is future value and how is it calculated?
What would be the consequence of not accounting for inflation?
What is the significance of IRR?
Why is knowledge of the time value of money useful?
Explain the terms PV and FV?
What rate is most often used for time value of money calculations?
If the discount rate on a proposed investment is raised, what happens to its present value? Why?
Would a lump sum today or the comparable amount in periodic payments deposited over time provide a higher FV? Why?
Explain regular annuity versus annuity due and give examples?
What is rate of return and why do we use inflation-adjusted return?
What are the differentiating factors between regular annuity and annuity due?
What is the present value of a $20,000 sum to be given six years from now if the discount rate is 8 percent?
What is the difference in amount accumulated for a $10,000 sum with 12 percent interest compounded annually versus one compounded monthly over a one-year period?
What is the difference in future value between savings in which $3,000 is deposited each year at the beginning of the period and the same amount deposited at the end of the period? Assume an
Kenneth made a $20,000 investment in year 1, received a $5,000 return in year 2, made an $8,000 cash payment in year 3, and received his $20,000 back in year 4. If his required rate of return is 8
John had $50,000 in salary this year. If this salary is increasing 4 percent annually and inflation is projected to rise 3 percent per year, calculate the amount of return he will receive in nominal
Becky made a $30,000 investment in year 1, received a $10,000 return in year 2, $8,000 in year 3, $11,000 in year 4, and $9,000 in year 5. What was her internal rate of return over the five-year
What is the future value of an investment of $18,000 that will earn interest at 6 percent and fall due in seven years?
Jason was promised $48,000 in 10 years if he would deposit $14,000 today. What would his compounded annual return be?
How many years would it take for a dollar to triple in value if it earns a 6 percent rate of return?
Marcy placed $3,000 each year into an investment returning 9 percent a year for her daughter's college education. She started when her daughter was two. How much had she accumulated by her daughter's
Todd was asked what he would pay for an investment that offered $1,500 a year for the next 40 years. He required an 11 percent return to make that investment. What should he bid?
Ann was offered an annuity of $20,000 a year for the rest of her life. She was 55 at the time, and her life expectancy was 84. The investment would cost her $180,000. What would the return on her
How many years would it take for $2,000 in savings a year earning interest at 6 percent to amount to $60,000?
Aaron has $50,000 in debt outstanding with interest payable at 12 percent annually. If Aaron intends to pay off the loan through four years of interest and principal payment, how much should he pay
1. Calculate what the $3,000-per-year deficit, had it been invested, would have amounted to at the end of the 15-year period. 2. Explain to Richard what compounding is and how it affected the
What is behavioral finance?
How does financial counseling differ from financial advising?
How should resistance to a question or recommended course of action be handled?
Why are goals important for financial planning?
What are some of the broad financial goals of people with whom you will come in contact?
How can financial planning goals be broken down into minimum, satisfactory, and higher-level components according to parts of the financial plan?
What does standard of living mean to you?
How do financial and personal interpretations of financial planning differ?
Are goals more short-term or long-term oriented? Explain your answer.
How is Maslow's hierarchy of needs related to income?
What is data gathering?
How does behavioral finance differ from quantitative finance?
Why is data gathering important?
What are two pieces of data that are needed in each of the six financial planning areas?
Which types of data should be gathered at an initial interview and which should be left for future meetings?
How do commission communications vary from other types?
What is the difference between feeling sympathy and empathy for the client? Is one more valuable than the other? Why?
What would you consider to be the financial equivalent of Maslow's hierarchy of needs? What are the basics? What comes last?
What is the significance of choosing to construct a segmented financial plan?
How would you interact and advise a client with goals you personally find outlandish but that the client values greatly. Creating a mock dialogue could be helpful?
Contrast the interests of young people and seniors?
What does nonverbal communication mean?
Why is listening important in the financial planning process?
What are four techniques that are helpful in becoming a good listener?
How do you establish trust?
Why is preplanning for an interview important?
What are some attractive interviewing techniques?
1. As a planner, what communication techniques would you review to prepare for the meeting with Brad and Barbara? 2. How would you open the interview? 3. Assuming you didn't know any of the
Define the household in financial terms?
How do finance and economics differ in emphasis?
Describe household operations according to household finance?
Why is it important to differentiate among the various types of household expenditures?
Outline the similarities and differences between a household and a business?
What is the importance of the theory of financial planning?
Are any of the outlays in Table 4.1 preferable to the others? Support your answer.Table 4.1: Household Organizational Summary* In some income circumstances, the opposite is true-for example, getting
When would it be beneficial for the household enterprise to outsource some activities, for example, cooking?
If operating efficiently is the main goal of a household enterprise, are there any drawbacks?
What is TPM and why is it valuable in the framework of household planning?
What is to be gained by incorporating both theory and practical tools, such as opportunity cost of time, into household planning?
What makes the household the financial structure for the individual?
List some of the advantages and disadvantages of various organizational structures for the individual?
How do people choose their goods?
How are spending decisions made according to the life cycle theory of savings?
What does life cycle theory say a household should have in savings at the end of its life? Is that practical? Explain your answer.
Define the term opportunity cost of time?
The cost of time is a noncash charge, so why is it important?
What makes the household an enterprise?
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