You have been working as a senior consultant in Zambia for a Multinational Company that specializes in providing investment advisory services to clients that include individual investors as well as corporations. Recently, you were invited to a local investor’s seminar to present a paper on Investment and portfolio management/Portfolio management.
Required:
Using a business of your choice, identify any FOUR risks faced by the business, discuss their impact on the business and cite specific measures that the business can put in place to address the said risks (if any). In your presentation, ensure to:
a) Justify the relationship between risk and return.
b) Outline circumstances under which coefficient of variation is preferred over standard deviation for comparing risks.
c) Explain the influence of beta values in portfolio construction and identify circumstances when beta values are negative.