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Assume you have $100,000 in savings. Create an investment portfolio of securities worth $100,000. Decide what financial instruments you would like to use then find their current prices. You can use financial instruments from anywhere in the world, however you may only use a maximum of 4 different ones. [Financial instrument = investment choice: (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, business, property. etc.)] 1. Calculate your holdings of each security based on their current prices 2. Provide details for each of the financial instrument that you are using. Country of origin, company name, historic values, etc. 3. Why did you select the financial instruments that you did? Describe the benefits of the investment you chose. High returns? Good reputation? Safe, low risk investment? 4. Explain how each of the following economic events would directly affect the value of your portfolio, if at all he An increase or decrease in interest rates b. A recession A depreciation of the Canadian dollar