Describe how making these investments will position the company to generate an attractive absolute and relative investment performance. Support with examples.

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FIN 640 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric Overview For the final project, you will submit an investment analysis report for a hypothetical company, based on provided constraints and research of market and industry trends. You will need to utilize the topics covered throughout the course in order to demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skill required of a corporate investment manager. Through research and calculations, you will be analyzing the company's place in the financial market, constructing a portfolio, and compiling your findings in an executive summary to justify your investment strategies and decisions, along with evaluating the investment performances. As a corporate investment manager, it is your responsibility to construct an investment portfolio that will generate the maximum rate of return within a given risk class. In order to be successful in this, you need to synthesize your knowledge of your company's industry and its place in the wider financial markets and of the modern portfolio theory, along with utilizing both qualitative and quantitative skills. This project addresses the following course outcomes: Evaluate financial market conditions in order to assess impact on companies and their portfolios Calculate rates of return for shareholders utilizing the dividend discount model and market multiples Determine appropriate balance between risk and return when constructing company portfolios Justify how securities in a portfolio reflect stakeholders' investment objectives and meet professional standards Analyze industry trends in relation to company valuation on an absolute and relative basis for informing investment decisions Implement portfolio management strategies that meet the investment objectives of a corporation Prompt You are a new investment manager of XYZ Tech Company. The CEO has asked you to produce an investment analysis report. Using the provided information and investment parameters for the company along with your own financial database research, prepare an investment analysis report for the company. Your analysis report should include compiled data spreadsheets, a complete portfolio, and a justification of your investment strategies in an executive summary. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Company and Market Analysis: In this section, you will analyze the company and its position in the financial markets. A. Financial Markets i. Analyze the five-year performance of the domestic economy relative to the financial markets. ii. Explain specific market performance data based on compiled asset valuation model inputs supported by database research of five-year sector and industry performance and current trends. iii. Evaluate the impact of the five-year and current macroeconomic data on asset prices. B. Company Valuation i. ii. Analyze the company's financial items and key ratios in order to demonstrate a comparison to peers and industry. Determine the intrinsic value of assets by inputting data into the various asset valuation models, and explain how each model was applied. C. Industry Trends i. Compile historic industry microeconomic data from database research for relative comparisons and inputs into asset valuation models. ii. Analyze quantitative data across sectors and industries to measure absolute and relative performance. D. Stakeholders i. Identify five key stakeholders and their needs in relation to the company's portfolio. ii. Identify the common stockholders' primary objective and their required return on equity. II. Portfolio: With your company and market analysis in mind, construct a complete portfolio that includes the following: A. Assets i. Explain the inclusion of specific asset classes for the portfolio, considering the portfolio's risk/return trade-offs and the company's investment objectives. ii. Apply the asset allocation weightings across asset classes, sectors, and industries. B. Securities i. Analyze the company's historical revenue and earnings growth in order to demonstrate a comparison to that of peers in the industry. ii. Determine the intrinsic value of assets utilizing the asset valuation models. C. Rates of Return i. Analyze the assets' historical risk and rates of return, utilizing a comparison of the assets' rates of return to similar securities or benchmarks for support. ii. Calculate required rates of return, utilizing various asset valuation models (e.g. stock valuation models, bond valuation models, real estate valuation models, etc.). D. Compare the risk/return trade-off on the investments. III. Executive Summary: Justify your investment strategies in a summary, utilizing your company and market analysis and portfolio for support. Include the following in your justification: A. Describe how making these investments will position the company within its industry in the market. Support with examples. B. Explain the benefits of the investments to stakeholders. C. Assess investment performance utilizing specific performance measurements. D. Assess investment performance based on risk/return metrics, citing specific examples. E. Explain how the strategies implemented in the portfolio meet the company's investment objectives. Milestones Milestone One: Company Profile In Module Three, you will submit your company profile. Using the investment parameters for XYZ Tech Company along with your own financial database research, you will complete several Excel spreadsheets and write a brief 1- to 2-page paper briefly outlining the securities and bonds that your company might possibly invest in to create a well-diversified investment portfolio. You will analyze each company and its performance in the financial markets over the past five years, include a company valuation for each firm, and identify stakeholders in the company. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone One Rubric. Milestone Two: Portfolio In Module Five, you will first complete the Company and Market Analysis portion of your final project. Using historic and quantitative data, you will provide a brief discussion of the absolute and relative performance of the chosen companies in terms of industry trends. Next, with your completed company and market analysis in mind, you will begin to construct an investment portfolio that includes a consideration of assets, securities, and rates of return for each of the companies that you will be including in the portfolio. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Two Rubric. Milestone Three: Portfolio Performance Analysis In Module Seven, you will first complete your portfolio by comparing the risk/return trade-off on the investments you are compiling. Then, as part of the beginning of your executive summary, you will describe how your investments performed on both an absolute and a relative basis. You will also assess investment performance for the seven securities by calculating the portfolio's overall investment performance and briefly note how each security contributed to the portfolio's performance. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Three Rubric. Final Submission: Investment Analysis Report and Executive Summary In Module Nine, you will submit your final project, the Investment Analysis Report, which should include data spreadsheets, a complete portfolio, and an executive summary. Note: Your executive summary must include the Section III critical elements B, D, and E as outlined in this document (you completed Critical Elements A and C in Milestone Three). This submission will be graded with the Final Project Rubric. Deliverables Milestone One Two Three Deliverable Company Profile Module Due Three Grading Graded separately; Milestone One Rubric Five Graded separately; Milestone Two Rubric Portfolio Performance Analysis Seven Graded separately; Milestone Three Rubric Final Submission: Investment Analysis Report and Executive Summary Nine Graded separately; Final Project Rubric Portfolio Final Project Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your final submission should be 7-11 pages in length. The Investment Analysis Report should include a spreadsheet of your compiled data, a complete portfolio, and a 2- to 3-page executive summary. The total page length includes the executive summary but does not include title, reference pages, or the spreadsheet. It should be written in 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, following the most recent APA standards for formatting and referencing. Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions. Critical Elements Company and Market Analysis: Financial Markets: Domestic Economy Exemplary Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and analysis demonstrates keen insight into the relation of economic performance to financial markets (100%) Proficient Analyzes the five-year performance of the domestic economy relative to the financial markets (90%) Company and Market Analysis: Financial Markets: Asset Valuation Model Inputs Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and the database research used exemplifies advanced knowledge of performance and trends (100%) Explains specific market performance data based on compiled asset valuation model inputs supported by database research of five-year sector and industry performance and current trends (90%) Company and Market Analysis: Financial Markets: Macroeconomic Data Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and evaluation demonstrates keen insight into the impact of macroeconomic data on asset pricing (100%) Evaluates the impact of the five-year and current macroeconomic data on asset prices (90%) Needs Improvement Analyzes the five-year performance of the domestic economy relative to the financial markets, but analysis is cursory or contains inaccuracies (70%) Explains specific market performance data based on compiled asset valuation model inputs, but explanation is cursory, is not supported by database research of five-year sector and industry performance and current trends, or contains inaccuracies (70%) Evaluates the impact of the five-year and current macroeconomic data on asset prices, but evaluation is cursory or contains inaccuracies (70%) Not Evident Does not analyze the performance of the domestic economy (0%) Value 5.28 Does not explain specific market performance data based on compiled asset valuation model inputs (0%) 5.28 Does not evaluate the impact of the macroeconomic data on asset prices (0%) 5.28 Company and Market Analysis: Company Valuation: Financial Items an Key Ratios Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and comparisons demonstrate keen insight into the relation of the company to industry peers in terms of key financial ratios (100%) Analyzes the company's financial items and key ratios in order to demonstrate a comparison to peers and industry (90%) Company and Market Analysis: Company Valuation: Intrinsic Value Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and explanations demonstrate advanced knowledge of how asset valuation models are used for determining intrinsic value of assets (100%) Determines the intrinsic value of assets by inputting data into the various asset valuation models and explains how each model was applied (90%) Company and Market Analysis: Industry Trends: Microeconomic Data Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and compilation demonstrates keen insight into the microeconomic data needed for asset valuation models (100%) Compiles historic industry microeconomic data from database research for relative comparisons and inputs into asset valuation models (90%) Company and Market Analysis: Industry Trends: Absolute and Relative Performance Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and analysis demonstrates keen insight into how data can measure absolute and relative performance (100%) Analyzes quantitative data across sectors and industries to measure absolute and relative performance (90%) Analyzes the company's financial items and key ratios in order to demonstrate a comparison to peers and industry, but analysis is cursory, comparison is incomplete, or response contains inaccuracies (70%) Determines the intrinsic value of assets by inputting data into the various asset valuation models, but determination contains inaccuracies, or asset valuation models are not used correctly, or lacks explanation (70%) Compiles historic industry microeconomic data from database research for relative comparisons and inputs into asset valuation models, but compilation is incomplete or contains inaccuracies (70%) Analyzes quantitative data across sectors and industries to measure absolute and relative performance, but analysis is cursory, contains inaccuracies, or is not used to measure absolute and relative performance (70%) Does not analyze the company's financial items and key ratios in order to demonstrate a comparison to peers and industry (0%) 5.28 Does not determine the intrinsic value of assets (0%) 5.28 Does not compile historic industry microeconomic data (0%) 5.28 Does not analyze quantitative data across sectors and industries (0%) 5.28 Company and Market Analysis: Stakeholders: Key Stakeholders Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and identification demonstrates keen insight into the needs of company stakeholders (100%) Identifies five key stakeholders and their needs in relation to the company's portfolio (90%) Company and Market Analysis: Stakeholders: Common Stockholders Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and identification demonstrates keen insight into objectives of common stockholders (100%) Identifies the common stockholders' primary objective and their required return on equity (90%) Portfolio: Assets: Asset Classes Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and explanation demonstrates keen insight into the relationship between the risk/return tradeoff, investment objectives, and asset classes (100%) Explains the inclusion of specific asset classes for the portfolio, considering the portfolio's risk/return tradeoffs and the company's investment objectives (90%) Portfolio: Assets: Allocation Weightings Portfolio: Securities: Historical Applies the asset allocation weightings across asset classes, sectors, and industries (100%) Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and analysis demonstrates keen insight into how the company's growth relates to its peers' (100%) Analyzes the company's historical revenue and earnings growth in order to demonstrate a comparison to that of peers in the industry (90%) Identifies key stakeholders and their needs in relation to the company's portfolio, but does not identify five stakeholders, needs are inappropriately identified in relation to the portfolio, or response contains inaccuracies (70%) Identifies the common stockholders' primary objective and their required return on equity, but identification is inaccurate or does not take into account either the objective or return on equity (70%) Explains the inclusion of specific asset classes for the portfolio, but does not consider risk/return trade-offs or investment objectives, explanation is cursory, or contains inaccuracies (70%) Applies the asset allocation weightings across asset classes, sectors, and industries, but application is incomplete or contains inaccuracies (70%) Does not identify key stakeholders and their needs in relation to the company's portfolio (0%) 5.28 Does not identify the common stockholders' primary objective or their required return on equity (0%) 5.28 Does not explain the inclusion of specific asset classes for the portfolio (0%) 3.17 Does not apply the asset allocation weightings across asset classes, sectors, or industries (0%) 3.17 Analyzes the company's historical revenue and earnings growth, but analysis is incomplete, does not demonstrate a comparison to peers, or contains inaccuracies (70%) Does not analyze the company's historical revenue or earnings growth (0%) 3.96 Portfolio: Securities: Intrinsic Value Portfolio: Rates of Return: Historical Meets \"Proficient\" criteria and demonstrates advanced knowledge of using asset valuation models in relation to intrinsic value (100%) Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and analysis masterfully uses the comparison of assets' rates of return to similar securities or benchmarks for support (100%) Portfolio: Rates of Return: Calculate Portfolio: Risks/Return Executive Summary: Position Executive Summary: Benefits to Stakeholders Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and comparison demonstrates keen insight into trade-off on investments (100%) Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and support used demonstrates keen insight into how investments can position a company in its industry and the market (100%) Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and explanation demonstrates keen insight into how the stakeholders will benefit from the investments (100%) Determines the intrinsic value of assets, utilizing the asset valuation models (90%) Analyzes the assets' historical risk and rates of return, utilizing a comparison of the assets' rates of return to similar securities or benchmarks for support (90%) Calculates required rates of return, utilizing various asset valuation models (100%) Compares the risk/return trade-off on the investments (90%) Describes how making these investments will position the company within its industry in the market, supported with examples (90%) Explains the benefits of the investments to stakeholders (90%) Determines the intrinsic value of assets, but determination does not utilize asset valuation models, is incomplete, or contains inaccuracies (70%) Analyzes the assets' historical risk and rates of return, utilizing a comparison of the assets' rates of return to similar securities or benchmarks, but analysis is cursory, is insufficiently supported, or contains inaccuracies (70%) Calculates rates of return, but calculations are incomplete or contain inaccuracies (70%) Compares the risk/return trade-off on the investments, but comparison is incomplete or contains inaccuracies (70%) Describes how making these investments will position the company within its industry in the market, but description is cursory, is insufficiently supported, or contains inaccuracies (70%) Explains the benefits of the investments to stakeholders, but explanation is cursory or contains inaccuracies (70%) Does not determine the intrinsic value of assets (0%) 3.96 Does not analyze the assets' historical risk and rates of return, utilizing a comparison of the assets' rates of return to similar securities or benchmarks (0%) 3.96 Does not calculate rates of return (0%) 5.28 Does not compare the risk/return trade-off on the investments (0%) 3.96 Does not describe how making these investments will position the company within its industry in the market (0%) 5.28 Does not explain the benefits of the investments to stakeholders (0%) 5.28 Executive Summary: Investment Performance Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and the performance measurements utilized demonstrate advanced knowledge into assessing performance (100%) Assesses investment performance, utilizing specific performance measurements (90%) Executive Summary: Risk/Return Metrics Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and examples used demonstrate keen insight into how risk/return metrics can be used to assess performance (100%) Assesses investment performance based on risk/return metrics, citing specific examples (90%) Executive Summary: Investment Objectives Meets \"Proficient\" criteria, and explanation demonstrates keen insight into the company's investment objectives (100%) Explains how the strategies implemented in the portfolio meet the company's investment objectives (90%) Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-toread format (100%) Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization (90%) Articulation of Response Assesses investment performance, utilizing specific performance measurements, but measurements used are inappropriate, or assessment is incomplete or contains inaccuracies (70%) Assesses investment performance based on risk/return metrics, but assessment is cursory, is insufficiently supported, or contains inaccuracies (70%) Explains how the strategies implemented in the portfolio meet the company's investment objectives, but explanation is cursory or contains inaccuracies (70%) Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas (70%) Does not utilize performance measurements to assess investment performance (0%) 3.17 Does not assess investment performance based on risk/return metrics (0%) 3.17 Does not explain how the strategies implemented in the portfolio meet the company's investment objectives (0%) 3.17 Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas (0%) 4.95 Total 100%