Wawasan Open University (WOU) Questions

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…

You are currently working as an analyst at Financial Consulting Bhd. Your boss has instructed you to form an equity fund portfolio which consists of TWO SERVICE COMPANIES. The portfolios have total fund size of RM10 million. Before you can start with your analysis, you have to collect the monthly…

Task: For this assignment, you are required to conduct at least a 20 – 30 minutes interview session with one (1) individual who have at least two (2) years of experience working in a group using the following questions: 1. What are two (2) problems you have encountered and two…

A central bank, reserve bank, or monetary authority, is an entity responsible for the monetary policy of its country or of its group of member states. In most countries, the central bank is state-owned and has a minimal degree of autonomy to allow for the possibility of government intervention in…