Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York offers several types of investments for its member. Among the choice are investments with fixed and variables rates of return. There are several categories of variable-return investments. The Diversified Equity Fund consists of investments that are primarily made in stocks, and the Stable-Value Fund consists of investments in corporate bonds and other types of lower-risk instruments. The data in TRSNYC represent the value of a unit of each type of variable-return investments at the beginning of each year from 1984 to 2017.
a. plot the data.
b. compute the linear trend forecasting equation.
c. compute the quadratic trend forecasting equation.
d. compute the exponential trend forecasting equation.
e. determine the best-fitting autoregressive model, using
f. Perform a residual analysis for each of the model in (b) through (e).
g. compute the standard error of the estimate
h. On the basis of your results in (f) and (g), along with a consideration of the principle of parsimony, which model would you select for purposes of forecasting? Discuss.
i. Using the selected model in (h), forecast the until values for 2018.
j. Based on the result of (a) through (i) what investment strategy would you recommend for a member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of the city of New York? Explain.
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