FIN3320 Expected Return & Beta Measure Finance

FIN3320 California State Expected Return & Beta Measure Finance Questions
Answer all the following:
How important is the understanding of the risk involved in an investment to investors versus expected return?
What is the “Black Swan” problem?
What does beta measure?
What does standard deviation measure?
What does Value at Risk measure?
What is meant when we say that the measurement of risk is qualitative by nature?
Why are interest rates important when evaluating any investment and how do we use them to evaluate an investment?
What do we mean by nominal interest rates?
What do we mean by real interest rates?
When computing real interest rates using the approximate formula, when would the approximate real interest rates be more exact to actual real rates?
When computing real interest rates using the approximate formula, in which case would the approximation be perfectly exact to real rates?
What is continuous compounding and what is Euler’s number?
What is Holding Period Return?
What is Standard Deviation and how can we use this measurement to evaluate future stock prices?
What is Systemic Risk?
What is Systematic Risk?
What does the Nominal Wealth Index calculate?
What does the Real Wealth Index calculate?
What is APR?
What is EAR?