Wawasan Open University (WOU) Questions

QUESTION 1  a) Corus Berhad is interested to invest in bonds. Currently, the financial manager is evaluating both Bond A and Bond B. Bond A pays an 8 percent coupon semi-annually and matures in 12 years. Bond B pays a 7 percent coupon annually having a maturity period of 13…

QUESTION 2  a) Explain five advantages of preferred stock. b) Elaborate any three (3) features of common stock. c) Describe the salient characteristics of the bond. d) Home Company paid an annual dividend of RM0.90 per share this year. The company expects that the dividend will grow at an annual…

QUESTION 3  Evaluate the three mutual funds using Sharpe and Treynor measure. Given the risk-free rate is 5%. a) Calculate the following measures for each fund and market portfolio: i) Sharpe measure ii) Treynor measure b) Rank the portfolios using both measures and discuss the differences you find in the…

Question a) You are in a senior management position in a leading international funds management firm. Your Board of Directors required you to analyze FOUR (4) benefits of allocating funds across various countries and geographical regions based on two market dimensions: i) Developed countries. ii) Emerging markets. cta_question_2

In April 1992, EuroDisney first opened in Paris, France. It later changed its name to Disneyland Paris. They expected to achieve the same tremendous success that they had achieved in Tokyo Disneyland. However, EuroDisney in Paris failed in its first few years. Financial losses were so heavy that the president…

QUESTION 1  The table below depicts the expected return for CCC Berhad and XXX Berhad for April and May: a) Calculate the betas for both stocks. b) Discuss the problems encounters when testing the CAPM empirically. c) In light of the problems in CAPM, the APT model was proposed as…

QUESTION 2  Suppose there are an infinite number of assets with an expected return of 12% p.a. and a standard deviation of 40%. Further, assume investors from equally-weighted portfolios. (a) If the correlation between any two assets is zero, calculate the expected return and standard deviation of a randomly selected…

QUESTION 3  (a) Explain the differences in how modern and traditional theories of a portfolio management approach the issue of diversification. (b) As an investor you have a required rate of return of 14 percent for investments in risky stocks. You have analyzed three risky firms and must decide which…

QUESTION 4  Merry Karthik is a bank executive who has just inherited a large sum of money. Having spent several years in the bank’s investments department, he is well aware of the concept of duration - convexity and decides to apply it to his bond portfolio. In particular, Merry intends…