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Which statement is true: The minimum variance hedge
Select one:
a. is the point at the utmost left of the efficient frontier of risky assets
b. minimizes the variance of the hedged position of spot and futures
c. can be obtained from linearly regressing the changes in the spot price on the changes of the market portfolio
d. None of the above statements is true.
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- Suppose you identify 50 possible investments whose payoffs are completely independent of one another. All the investments have the same expected value and standard deviation. You have $5,000 to invest. In terms of risk, would the benefit of spreading your $5,000 across all 50 investments be the same, greater, or smaller compared with dividing your funds between just two investments? OYes. The gains from spreading your investments would be larger if you spread the $5000 across 50 investments. No. Because in this case diversification does not help to spread risk, it doesn't matter how many investments you spread your $5,000 across. No. Because the payoffs from these investments are independent, it doesn't matter how many investments you spread your $5,000 across, as there is no benefit in terms of reduced risk. O Yes. Because the payoffs from these investments are negatively correlated with one another, spreading your $5,000 across a targer number of investments reduces your risk.Eunice, the industry analyst of H&M, wants to determine the propensity of Major Clothingcompanies toward risk. She was able to determine the utility distribution of H&M, Uniqloand Dickies. For H&M, If the expected payoff of a venture is a loss of 125,000, the utilityvalue is 0.00, if a loss of 75,000, the utility value is .2, if breakeven, the utility value is .5,if gain of 75,000 .8 and if gain of 125,000 utility value is 1. For Uniqlo, if loss of 125,000utility value is 0, if loss of 75,000 utility value is .1, breakeven is .4, if a gain of 75,000,utility value is .7 and if gain of 125,000 utility value is 1. For Dickies, if loss of 125,000,utility value is 0, if loss of 75,000, utility value is .3 breakeven is .6, if gain of 75,000, utilityvalue is .9 and gain of 125,000, utility value is 1. What is the propensity to risk of the threeinternet companies? Explain your graph.1) Explain the importance of continuous variables. 2) How do we define the probability P(X) of a continuous random variable? Provide two examples of continuous random variables. 3) Explain what is meant by a discrete random variable (X), its expected value and standard deviation. 4) What is the usefulness of the Central Limit Theorem?
