Which of the following are examples of portfolios? More than one answer may be correct. Multiple select question. An investment of $100,000 in 100 shares of the best performing stock on the New York Stock Exchange An investment of $100,000 in the stocks of 50 publicly traded corporations An investment of $100,000 in a combination of stocks and bonds An investment of $100,000 in a combination of Canadian and Asian stocks An investment of $100,000 in 100 shares of the best performing stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange

Suppose you visit with a financial adviser, and you are considering investing some of your wealth in one of three investment portfolios: stocks, bonds, or commodities. Your financial adviser provides you with the following table, which gives the probabilities of possible returns from each investment: Stocks Bonds Commodities Probability Return Probability Return Probability Return 20% 15% 0.15 20% 0.6 10% 0.2 0.2 12.5% 0.4 7.5% 0.2 0.25 0.2 0.4 3.8% 0.2 0.2 0% To maximize your expected return, you should choose O A. commodities. B. bonds. OC. stocks. OD. All of the portfolios have the same expected return

Suppose you manage an equity fund with the following securities. Use the following data to calculate the information ratio of each stock.                           Input Data Vogt Industries Isher Corporation Hedrock, Incorporated       Alpha 0.012 0.006 0.016       Beta 0.277 1.015 1.630       Standard Deviation 0.156 0.168 0.181       Residual Standard Deviation 0.117 0.048 0.113                     Required:             Using the information in the table above, please calculate the information ratio for each stock.                           (Use cells A5 to D8 from the given information to complete this question.)                             Vogt Industries Isher Corporation Hedrock, Incorporated       Information Ratio

As the chief investment officer for a money management firm specializing in taxable individual investors, you are trying to establish a strategic asset allocation for two different clients. You have established that Ms. A has a risk-tolerance factor of 8, while Mr. B has a risk-tolerance factor of 27. The characteristics for four model portfolios follow: ASSET MIX Bond 93% 75 32 13 Portfolio 1 2 3 4 Stock 7% 25 GB 87 a. Calculate the expected utility of each prospective portfolio for each of the two clients. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places. 1 2 3 Portfolio Ms. A ER 8% 9 10 11 b. Which portfolio represents the optimal strategic allocation for Ms. A? Which portfolio is optimal for Mr. B? Portfollo-Select-represents the optimal strategic allocation for Ms. A. Portfolio Select is the optimal allocation for Mr. B. c. For Ms. A, what level of risk tolerance would leave her indifferent between having Portfolio 1 or Portfolio 2 as her strategic…