Scenario: You are 29 years old and willing to invest $1,750 every other month for the next 15 years. You prefer a conservative-to-moderate investment strategy and have a risk-averse to risk- neutral tolerance for risk. Your highest priority in your investment strategy is preparing you and any family that you might have in the future for your retirement. You also regularly set aside money into savings and CDs to pay for vacations or similar large-ticket items. You've assembled a table of information and company descriptions for some new stocks and bonds that you are thinking about adding to your investment portfolio. Currently, your portfolio consists of 20 blue- chip stocks, and you're thinking about increasing your diversification by adding some different types of stocks. The following are descriptions of potential firms to be added to your portfolio: Celestial Crane Cosmetics, Inc. is its industry leader with sales of $1.25 billion. It is a safe and solid investment, and has a beta of 1.0. Green Fish Semiconductor Company is a large diversified provider of internet, network, and wireless services. It will be the first firm to commercialize an underwater wifi system. Hungry Whale Electronics is a small firm on the bleeding edge of technology. It has a market capitalization of $800 million. It exhibits solid sales and share-price performance but participates in an extremely competitive industry. Red Melon Fruit Company is a solid firm whose share price is temporarily below what it should be based on the company's sales, earnings, dividends. It pays a high dividend but currently exhibits a low P/E ratio. If you wanted to invest in a blue-chip stock company (based on index), you should invest in If you wanted to invest in a tech stock company, you should invest in If you wanted to invest in a small-cap company, you should invest in If you wanted to invest in a value stock company (based on industry), you should invest in Now, think about the available attributes of common and preferred stock issues and bond issues, and answer the following questions. If you want to invest in a security that pays you a fixed cash flow every quarter, then you should consider investing in If you want to invest in a security that allows you to participate in the selection of a company's management team, including its board of directors, then you should invest in If you want to be able to purchase additional shares before new shares are offered to the public, then you should ensure that common shares have a Assume that you've selected the investments that you want to add to your portfolio. Now you must consider who to contact to make the purchases and the types of orders to place. If you wanted to discuss and verify your ideas with a real person (broker) and review firm-provided research reports, then you should use If you wanted to place a buy order that requires your new shares to be purchased at the best possible price that does not exceed a specified price, then you should ask for a order
