FINANCE 650 - You have recently graduated

FINANCE 650 - You have recently graduated

FINANCE 650 - You have recently graduated
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You have recently graduated with a major in finance and landed a financial planner job with Barney Smith Inc., a large financial services corporation. Your first assignment is to invest $100,000 for a client.
• Because the funds will be invested in a new business the client plans to start at the end of the year, you have been instructed to plan for a 1-year holding period. Further, your boss has restricted you to the investment alternatives shown in Table 1 on the attached resource, "Topic 5 Assignment Graphic Tables." (Disregard for now the items at the bottom of the data; you will fill in the blanks later.)
• Note that the estimated returns of American Foam (Am. Foam), a bedding company, do not always move in the same direction as the overall economy.
• For example, when the economy is below average, consumers purchase fewer mattresses than they would if the economy were stronger.
• However, if the economy is in a flat-out recession, a large number of consumers who were planning to purchase a more expensive inner-spring mattress may purchase a cheaper foam mattress instead. Under these circumstances, we would expect American Foam’s stock price to be higher if there is a recession than if the economy was just below average.
• Barney Smith’s economic forecasting staff has developed probability estimates for the state of the economy, and its security analysts have developed a sophisticated computer program that was used to estimate the rate of return on each alternative under several state of the economy scenarios.
• Alta Industries (Alta Inds) is an electronics firm; Repo Men collects past-due debts; and American Foam, as per above, manufactures mattresses and various other foam products. Barney Smith also maintains an "index fund" which owns a market-weighted fraction of all publicly traded stocks; you can invest in that...

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