Solution Manual for Fundamentals of Investments Valuation and Management 9th Edition by Bradford Jordan, Thomas Miller, Steve Dolvin

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Fundamentals of Investments Valuation and Management 9th Edition By
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Chapter 1-21 S1




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A Brief History of Risk and Return
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Concept Questions
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1. For both risk and return, increasing order is b, c, a, d. On average, the higher the risk of an
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investment, the higher is its expected return.
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2. Since the price didn’t change, the capital gains yield was zero.
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percent, then the dividend yield must be four percent.
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3. It is impossible to lose more than –100 percent of your investment. Therefore, return
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distributions are cut off on the lower tail at –100 percent; if returns were truly normally
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distributed, you could lose much more.
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4. To calculate an arithmetic return, you sum the returns and divide by the number of returns.
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As such, arithmetic returns do not account for the effects of compounding (and, in
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particular, the effect of volatility). Geometric returns do account for the effects of
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compounding and for changes in the base used for each year’s calculation of returns. As an
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investor, the more important return of an asset is the geometric return.
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5. Blume’s formula uses the arithmetic and geometric returns along with the number of
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observations to approximate a holding period return. When predicting a holding period
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return, the arithmetic return will tend to be too high and the geometric return will tend to
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be too low. Blume’s formula adjusts these returns for different holding period expected
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returns.
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6. T-bill rates were highest in the early eighties since inflation at the time was relatively high.
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As we discuss in our chapter on interest rates, rates on T-bills will almost always be
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slightly higher than the expected rate of inflation.
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7. Risk premiums are about the same regardless of whether we account for inflation. The reason
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is that risk premiums are the difference between two returns, so inflation essentially nets
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out.
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8. Returns, risk premiums, and volatility would all be lower than we estimated because aftertax
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returns are smaller than pretax returns.
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9. We have seen that T-bills barely kept up with inflation before taxes. After taxes, investors in
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T-bills actually lost ground (assuming anything other than a very low tax rate). Thus, an all
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T-bill strategy will probably lose money in real dollars for a taxable investor.
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, 10. It is important not to lose sight of the fact that the results we have discussed cover over 80
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years, well beyond the investing lifetime for most of us. There have been extended periods
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during which small stocks have done terribly. Thus, one reason most investors will choose
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not to pursue a 100 percent stock (particularly small-cap stocks) strategy is that many
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investors have relatively short horizons, and high volatility investments may be very
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inappropriate in such cases. There are other reasons, but we will defer discussion of these to
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later chapters.
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Solutions to Questions and Problems
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NOTE: All end of chapter problems were solved using a spreadsheet. Many problems require
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multiple steps. Due to space and readability constraints, when these intermediate steps are
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included in this solutions manual, rounding may appear to have occurred. However, the final
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answer for each problem is found without rounding during any step in the problem.
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Core Questions
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1. Total dollar return = 100($41 – $37 + $.28) = $428.00
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Whether you choose to sell the stock does not affect the gain or loss for the year; your
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stock is worth what it would bring if you sold it. Whether you choose to do so or not is
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irrelevant (ignoring commissions and taxes).
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2. Capital gains yield = ($41 – $37)/$37 = .1081, or
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10.81% Dividend yield = $.28/$37 = .0076, or
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.76%
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Total rate of return = 10.81% + .76% = 11.57%
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3. Dollar return = 500($34 – $37 + $.28) = –$1,360
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Capital gains yield = ($34 – $37)/$37 = –.0811, or –
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8.11% Dividend yield = $.28/$37 = .0076, or .76%
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Total rate of return = –8.11% + .76% = –7.35%
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4. a. average return = 6.2%, average risk premium = 2.6%
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b. average return = 3.6%, average risk premium = 0%
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c. average return = 11.9%, average risk premium = 8.3%
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d. average return = 17.5%, average risk premium = 13.9%
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5. Cherry average return = (17% + 11% – 2% + 3% + 14%)/5 =
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Straw average return = (16% + 18% – 6% + 1% + 22%)/5 = 10.20%
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Var = 1/4[(.17 – .086)2 + (.11 – .086)2 + (–.02 – .086)2 + (.03 – .086)2 + (.14 – .086)2] = .00623
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Standard deviation = (.00623)1/2 = .0789, or 7.89%
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Var = 1/4[(.16 – .102)2 + (.18 – .102)2 + (–.06 – .102)2 + (.01 – .102)2 + (.22 – .102)2] = .01452
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Standard deviation = (.01452)1/2 = .1205, or 12.05%
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7. The capital gains yield is ($59 – $65)/$65 = –.0923, or –9.23% (notice the negative sign).
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, S 1 With a dividend yield of 1.2 percent, the total return is –8.03%.
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