Investment Portfolio Analysis

Portfolio management is an important factor that determines the performance of the portfolio. To perform well in the portfolio, it is not only essential to develop personal investment strategies, but analyzing current financial trend is also vital. Stock Trak is an online portfolio simulation that allows students to try out different investment strategies, and also get a hand on experience in what the real market trading conditions are. By managing the portfolio, I have acquired some new knowledge of investment strategies and also become more familiar with the current market by following closely to the financial headlines.

Week 1 – Introduction – Financial Accounting (Review) Week 2 – Financial Markets and Net Present Value Week 3 – Present Value Concepts Week 4 – Bond Valuation and Term Structure Theory Week 5 – Valuation of Stocks Week 6 – Risk and Return – Problem Set #1 Due Week 7* – Midterm (Tuesday*) Week 8 - Portfolio Theory Week 9 – Capital Asset Pricing Model Week 10 – Arbitrage Pricing Theory Week 11 – Operation and Efficiency of Capital Markets Week 12 – Course Review – Problem Set #2 Due

First off, Verizon Wireless has the best coverage without a doubt. Even United States President Barack Obama stated that “the nation’s largest carrier provided LTE to just over half of the U.S. population”(A Huge 4G Milestone). This shows that more people use Verizon Wireless than any other cell service provider. As if that wasn’t enough, Verizon Wireless offers “Licensed broadband technologies to an approximate population of 312,996,328 (out of a total population of 323,785,881)”(Verizon Communications Inc.). Considering that these statistics are from 2014, imagine how much more those numbers have grown and how much better the quality has gotten since then. Overall, Verizon Wireless’ coverage is outstanding and undoubtable better than any of its competitors’.

For the three consecutive days of teaching reading and writing, the student will complete a mini portfolio to prepare for student teaching portfolio expectations. For this assignment you will be required to:

Verizon continues to impress the nation with its impressive 4G LTE network and the efficient coverage it provides across the US. The industry as a whole is under market saturation and with many individuals carrying a smartphone competitors must find other ways to expand. This may be a problem for Verizon because with excellent service comes a price. Many competitors are using this as advantage to gain new competitors.

Stock-Track Report Eugene Myslinsky - 208083420 For the past three months we have been participating in a Stock-Trak Simulation exercise to experience what it takes to trade in the stock market. In this report, we will explain which strategies I chose to follow, which investments were the most and least successful to my portfolio and lastly, what advice we would give those who are looking to trade with real money. Investment Strategy and Selection The strategy I employed for our Stock-Trak simulation was to diversify our portfolio among different sectors, various stocks with relatively low risk, and stocks which were positively/negatively

In this portfolio it will show a range of work that was completed in English 111. You will find a table of contents so you can locate each piece of work easily. There will be a sample of a writing from my religion class that I have previously taken. This writing is a research paper. The reason I chose this sample of writing is because research papers is not one of my strongest papers that I can complete but, this was an easier research paper because of the topic that it was on and I could use any source I wanted to as long as it was not Wikipedia. Also, you will find samples of each writing assignment that was completed in this course: Narration Essay, Comparison/Contrast Essay, and Argumentative Research Essay, along with some revisions

In the United States, a society plagued by capitalism, investing has become a way of life. To most Americans it begins with opening a savings account and slowly allowing that money to grow through the compounded interest rate over the years. While it may not seem like a big step in generating more income, nonetheless, this is a positive movement in the market of investments. With the many types of investments available knowing which are reliable, or safe, or yield good returns, are just some of the questions on the investors mind. Within each asset class there are investments to suit different kinds of risk, duration, returns and liquidity.

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This document is authorized for use only by Yen Ting Chen in FInancial Markets and Institutions taught by Nawal Ahmed Boston University from September 2014 to December 2014.

company’s reinvigorated focus on wireless phones, “RadioShack has established their position in the wireless phone business because of the one on one attention clientele can receive from shopping at RadioShack. This form of attention cannot be given on such a multifaceted product by anyone other than a highly-trained team member, such as at RadioShack. The company center of attention for 2006 is wireless phones, plain and simple. Employees are paid a commission on wireless sales. This is higher than any other item in our store. Our manager’s compensation is tied to store performance, which is most greatly impacted by performance of wireless sales. It is expected of us

In this report it will highlight the key events that have happened within the UK and the international Financial Market during the week starting from 2nd to 8th February 2015. This include main event in the stock market, the developments in foreign exchange markets as well as interest rate and major news in the banking sector.

Further, our strategy involved paying attention to current events and attempting to use them to generate a return. For example, Horizon Pharmaceuticals’ stock price took a nosedive after an October 19th New York Times article suggested that Horizon was attempting to thwart Express Scripts’ attempts to lower the price of prescription drugs. The decision was made to buy 100 shares of stock in Horizon when its price spiraled down to a measly $14.62 per share, as we expected Horizon would do something to stop the bleeding, and historically has been a pretty volatile stock. Horizon came back with a scorching rebuttal in an open letter later that day, spiking its stock price more than 30% on October 23rd, and by October 28th, this move landed us our greatest return of any stock that we purchased and held until the end of the period: 18% (see appendix).

According to the CAPM model:R_i=α+βR_m+ε, α represent the abnormal return gained by the portfolio. If the market is efficiency, the α has to be zero.

As indicated by the case study S&P 500 index was use as a measure of the total return for the stock market. Our standard deviation of the total return was used as a one measure of the risk of an individual stock. Also betas for individual stocks are determined by simple linear regression. The variables were: total return for the stock as the dependent variable and independent variable is the total return for the stock. Since the descriptive statistics were a lot, only the necessary data was selected (below table.)