Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780132992473
Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 13, Problem 14P

a.

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To determine: The alpha which the investors in DS’s fund expect to receive.

Introduction: Stock alpha is overabundance risk of the required return; it implies that it is controlled by subtracting the required return of the stock as per SML (security market line) from the expected return of the stock.

b.

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To determine: The money DS has under the management.

c.

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To determine: The money HDAM generates with fee income.

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