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students for leadership and management roles in various industries. It focuses on critical thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, and understanding organizational processes. A typical business program
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Diversification Acquiring assets with low or negative correlations
to each other with the goal of lowering overall risk
Correlation - a relative measure of the degree to which the
returns of two assets move together
- range from +1.0 to -1.0
- in practice negative correlations are rare
- the further a correlation is from +1.0, the more
diversified
Asset allocation - the apportioning of available funds among a
number of asset classes in a way that meets the
needs of a particular client, dampens the effects of
periodic market fluctuations, and meets investment
goals
Four steps in the asset allocation 1) select asset classes to be represented
process 2) determine the percentage that each asset class
should represent in the total portfolio
3) Select individual securities
4) Review and rebalance
,Strategic Asset Allocation - determine asset mix that provides optimal
balance of expected risk and ROR
- asset classes selected and % weight determined
- Used to develop long-term allocation policy
- utilizes rebalancing to maintain targeted weight
Tactical Asset Allocation - used to develop short term strategies to exploit
changes in market conditions
- ofter viewed as a contrarian strategy
- periodic revisions of asset mix; moving funds
from over valued investments to undervalued
investments
- market timing strategy
Core-Satellite asset allocation 70-80% invested in broad index fund or etfs
- remaining satellite consists of actively managed
MF's in niches such as sector funds or alt
investments like hedge funds
Contrarian Strategy
Dollar-Cost averaging - investing regular amounts at regular intervals
- reduce market timing risk, improve cost per share
Low P/E strategy Ratio of 1= fair value
Ratio > 1= overvalued
Ratio < 1= undervalued
** The long-term average P/E for stocks is 16 students for
leadership and management roles in various industries. It focuses on critical thinking, decision-
making, problem-solving, and understanding organizational processes. A typical business
program might cover topics like accounting, finance, marketing, management, economics,
entrepreneurship, and international business.1.2. Structure of Business ExamsBusiness
, Bond Investment strategies (2) 1) Ladder: Owning equal amounts of bonds along
with maturities of equal intervals; ex. 50k of bonds
with 10k each in 2,4,6,8,10 year maturities
2) Barbell: Owning short-term and long-term
bonds, each with a ladder; ex. 100k of bonds with
10k each in 1,2,3,4,5 year maturities and in
16,17,18,19,20 year maturities
Systematic Risk P-purchasing power risk
R- reinvestment risk
I- interest rate risk
M- market risk
E- exchange rate risk
Social Security- Fully insured - having 10 years of employment covered by social
security; expressed as "40 quarters of coverage"
- Must be fully insured for retirement benefits
- fully insured workers are also eligible for disability
if he has earned at least 20 work credits in last 10
years
Social Security- currently insured - individual must has at least 6 quarters of
coverage in the 13-quarter period proceeding the
event for which eligibility is sought
- child's benefit, mother/fathers benefits, and lump-
sum death benefit are available if a worker is only
currently insured at death
Components of SS calculation - age he starts
- earnings history students for leadership and management roles in various
industries. It focuses on critical thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, and
understanding organizational processes. A typical business program might cover topics like
accounting, finance, marketing, management, economics, entrepreneurship, and
international business.1.2. Structure of Business ExamsBusiness