Financial Institutions Management A Risk Management Approach 9th edition Anthony Saunders, Marcia Millon Cornett - Solutions

Explain how annuity activities represent the reverse of life insurance activities.
What is a 12b-1 fee? Suppose you have a choice between a load fund with no annual 12b-1 fee and a no-load fund with an annual 12b-1 fee of 25 basis points. How would the length of your expected investment horizon, or holding period, influence your choice between these two funds?
Open-end fund A owns 165 shares of AT&T valued at $35 each and 30 shares of Toro valued at $75 each. Closed-end fund B owns 75 shares of AT&T and 72 shares of Toro. Each fund has 1,000 shares of stock outstanding.a. What are the NAVs of both funds using these prices?b. Assume that in
A mutual fund owns 300 shares of General Electric, currently trading at $30, and 400 shares of Microsoft, Inc., currently trading at $54. The fund has 1,000 shares outstanding.a. What is the net asset value (NAV) of the fund?b. If investors expect the price of General Electric shares to increase to
Suppose today a mutual fund contains 2,000 shares of J.P. Morgan Chase, currently trading at $64.75, 1,000 shares of Wal-mart, currently trading at $63.10, and 2,500 shares of Pfizer, currently trading at $31.50. The mutual fund has no liabilities and 10,000 shares outstanding held by investors.a.
Why did the proportion of equities in long-term funds increase from 38.3 percent in 1990 to more than 70 percent by 2000 and then decrease to 56.4 percent in 2015? How might an investor’s preference for a mutual funds objectives change over time?
Using the data in Table 5-2, discuss the growth and ownership holdings over the last 35 years of long-term funds versus short-term funds.
How did the National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996 (NSMIA) change the regulatory structure of the securities industry?
Based on the data in Table 4-7, what were the largest assets and liabilities of securities firms in 2015? Are these asset and liability categories related? Exactly how does a repurchase agreement work?
An investor notices that an ounce of gold is priced at $1,018 in London and $1,025 in New York. a. What action could the investor take to try to profit from the price discrepancy?b. Under which of the four trading activities would this action be classified?c.
One of the major activity areas of securities firms is trading.What is the difference between position trading and program trading?
What is the difference between an IPO and a secondary issue?
What have been the major changes in the accounts receivable balances of finance companies over the 38-year period from 1977 to 2015?
How does the asset structure of credit unions compare with the asset structure of commercial banks and savings institutions? Refer to Tables 2-5, 2-9, and 2-12 to formulate your answer.
What happened in 1979 to cause the failure of many savings institutions during the early 1980s? What was the effect of this change on the financial statements of savings associations?
Use the data in Table 2-6 to answer the following questions.a. What was the average annual growth rate in OBS total commitments over the period from 1992-2015?b. Which categories of contingencies have had the highest annual growth rates?c. What factors are credited for the significant growth in
How does the liability maturity structure of a bank’s balance sheet compare with the maturity structure of the asset portfolio? What risks are created or intensified by these differences?
What are five risks common to all financial institutions?

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