Exam 15: International Portfolio Investment

Exchange rate fluctuations contribute to the risk of foreign investment through three possible channels: (i)- the volatility of the investment due to the volatility of the exchange rate (ii)- the contribution of the cross-product term (iii)- its covariance with the local market returns Which of the following contributes and accounts for most of the volatility?

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Calculate the euro-based return an Italian investor would have realized by investing €10,000 into a £50 British stock using 50% margin.One year after investment,the stock pays a £1 dividend,and sells for £54 the exchange rate has changed from €1.25 per pound to €1.30 per pound.The interest on the margin loan is 1% per year.The margin loan was denominated in pounds.

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$\begin{aligned}H P R & = \frac { \frac { € 55 } { \text { share } } \times 2 \times \frac { \left[ € 10,000 \times \frac { £ 1.00 } { € 1.25 } \right] } { £ 50 / \text { share } } \times \frac { € 1.30 } { £ 1.00 } - 1.01 \times € 8,000 \times \frac { € 1.30 } { £ 1.00 } - € 10,000 } { € 10,000 } \\& = \frac { € 22,880 - € 10,504 - € 10,000 } { € 10,000 } = .2376 = 23.76 \%\end{aligned}$

The stock market of country A has an expected return of 5%, and standard deviation of expected return of 8%. The stock market of country B has an expected return of 15% and standard deviation of expected return of 10%. -Find the expected return of a portfolio with half invested in A and half invested in B.

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Calculate the euro-based return an Italian investor would have realized by investing €10,000 into a £50 British stock.One year after investment,the stock pays a £1 dividend,and sells for £54 the exchange rate has changed from €1.25 per pound to €1.30 per pound,although he sold £8,800 forward at the forward rate of €1.28 per pound.

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The stock market of country A has an expected return of 5%, and a standard deviation of expected return of 8%. The stock market of country B has an expected return of 15% and a standard deviation of expected return of 10%. -Assume that the correlation of expected return between security A and B is 0.2.Calculate the standard deviation of expected return of a portfolio that has half of its money invested in A and half in B.

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Calculate the euro-based return an Italian investor would have realized by investing €10,000 into a £50 British stock.The stock pays a £0.30 quarterly dividend,and after one year the investment sells for £54 the exchange rate has changed from €1.25 per pound to €1.30 per pound.

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The less correlated the securities in a portfolio,

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Which of the following is a true statement?

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Calculate the euro-based return an Italian investor would have realized by investing €10,000 into a $50 American stock.The stock pays a $0.30 quarterly dividend,and after one year the investment sells for $54 the exchange has changed from €.625 per dollar to €.6875 per dollar.

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The record of investing in U.S.-based stock mutual funds

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Suppose you are a euro-based investor who just sold Microsoft shares that you had bought six months ago.You had invested €10,000 to buy Microsoft shares for $120 per share; the exchange rate was $1.55 per euro.You sold the stock for $135 per share and converted the dollar proceeds into euro at the exchange rate of $1.50 per euro.How much of the return is due to the exchange rate movement?

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The stock market of country A has an expected return of 5%, and standard deviation of expected return of 8%. The stock market of country B has an expected return of 15% and standard deviation of expected return of 10%. -Assume that the correlation of expected return between A and B is negative 1.Calculate the standard deviation of expected return of the portfolio in the last question.

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With regard to the OIP,

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With regard to the OIP,

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Calculate the euro-based return an Italian investor would have realized by investing €10,000 into a £50 British stock.One year after investment,the stock pays a £1 dividend,and sells for £54 the exchange rate has changed from €1.25 per pound to €1.30 per pound.

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The "Sharpe performance measure" (SHP)is

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In the context of investments in securities (stocks and bonds),portfolio risk diversification refers to

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Question 19

A fully diversified U.S.portfolio is about

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The record of investing in U.S.-based international mutual funds

A closed end mutual fund

Calculate the euro-based return an Italian investor would have realized by investing €10,000 into a £50 British stock.The stock pays a £0.30 quarterly dividend,and after one year the investment sells for £54 the exchange rate has changed from €1.25 per pound to €1.30 per pound.

The less correlated the securities in a portfolio,

Which of the following is a true statement?

Calculate the euro-based return an Italian investor would have realized by investing €10,000 into a $50 American stock.The stock pays a $0.30 quarterly dividend,and after one year the investment sells for $54 the exchange has changed from €.625 per dollar to €.6875 per dollar.

The record of investing in U.S.-based stock mutual funds

With regard to the OIP,

With regard to the OIP,

Calculate the euro-based return an Italian investor would have realized by investing €10,000 into a £50 British stock.One year after investment,the stock pays a £1 dividend,and sells for £54 the exchange rate has changed from €1.25 per pound to €1.30 per pound.

The "Sharpe performance measure" (SHP)is

In the context of investments in securities (stocks and bonds),portfolio risk diversification refers to

A fully diversified U.S.portfolio is about

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