Mr. David Smart just sold 100 shares of Nestlé, a Swiss firm, for SF5,080 per share. The shares were bought for SF4,600 per share a year ago. The exchange rate is SF1.60 per U.S. dollar now and was SF1.78 per dollar a year ago. Mr. Smart received SF120 as a cash dividend per share immediately before the share was sold. Compute the rate of return on this investment in terms of U.S. dollars and show your detailed calculations.

Suppose you have an opportunity to invest in a fund that pays 11% interest compounded annually. Today, you invest $5,000 into this fund. Three years later (EOY 3), you borrow $2,500 from a local bank at 6% annual interest and invest it in the fund. Two years later (EOY 5), you withdraw enough money from the fund to repay the bank loan and all interest due on it. Three years from this withdrawal (EOY 8) you start taking $1,000 per year out of the fund. After five withdrawals of $1,000, you have withdrawn your original $5,000. The amount remaining in the fund is earned interest. How much remains? Click the icon to view the interest and annuity table for discrete compounding when i = 6% per year. Click the icon to view the interest and annuity table for discrete compounding when i= 11% per year. www

Suppose you win a raffle held at a neighborhood elementary school fundraiser and are given the choice between two different ways to be paid. You can either accept the money in a lump sum immediately or in a series of payments over time. If you choose the lump sum payout, you receive $2,950 today. If you choose to collect payments over time, you receive three payments: $1,000 today, $1,000 1 year from today, and $1,000 2 years from today. At an interest rate of 10% per year, the winner would be better off accepting the present value. At an interest rate of 12% per year, the winner would be better off accepting lump sum The lump sum is always better. The payments over time are always better. It will depend on the interest rate; advise her to get a calculator. O None of these answers is good advice. payments over time 7 since that choice has the greater since it has the greater present value. A couple years after you win the raffle, you and your friend are back at the same event. This…

The common stock of XYZ paid $1.32 in dividends last year. Dividends are expected to grow at an 8% annual rate for an indefinite number of years. If the require rate of return is 10.5%, should you make this investment? Why?