Jordan Jones (JJ) and Casey Carter (CC) are portfolio managers at your firm. Each manages a well-diversified portfolio. Your boss has asked for your opinion regarding their performance in the past year. JJs portfolio has a beta of 0.6 and had a return of 8.5%; CCs portfolio has a beta of 1.4 and had a return of 9.5%. Which manager had better performance? Why?

What does market equilibrium mean? If equilibrium does not exist, how will it be established?

MINI CASE STIID Assume that you recently graduated and landed a job as a financial planner with Cicero Services, an invest. ment advisory company. Your first client recently inherited some assets and has asked you to evaluate them. The client presently owns a bond portfolio with E1 million invested in zero coupon treasury bonds that mature in 10 years. The client also has 2 million invested in the stock of Blandy, a company that produces meat and potato frozen dinners. Blandy's slogan is "Solid food for shaky times." Unfortunately, Congress and the president are engaged in an acrimonious dispute over the budget and the debt ceiling. The outcome of the dispute, which will not be resolved until the end of the year, will have a big impact on interest rates one year from now. Your first task is to determine the risk of the client's bond portfolio. After consulting with the economists at your firm, you have specified five possible scenarios for the resolution of the dispute at the end of the year. For each scenario, you have estimated the probability of the scenario occurring and the impact on interest rates and bond prices if the scenario occurs. Given this information, you have calculated the rate of return on 10-year zero coupon for each scenario. The probabilities and returns are shown below: You have also gathered historical returns for the past 10 years for Blandy and Gourmange (a producer of gourmet speciality foods), and the stock market