Two investment advisers are comparing performance. Adviser A averaged a 20% return with a portfolio beta of 1.5, and adviser B averaged a 15% return with a portfolio beta of 1.2. If the T-bill rate was 5% and the market return during the period was 13%, which adviser was the better stock picker?

Upscale hotels in the united states recently cut their prices by 20 percent in an effort to bolster dwindling occupancy rates among business travelers. a survey performed by a major research organization indicated that businesses are wary of current economic conditions and are now resorting to electronic media, such as the internet and the telephone, to transact business. assume a company's budget permits it to spend $5,000 per month on either business travel or electronic media to transact business. graphically illustrate how a 20 percent decline in the price of business travel would impact this company's budget set if the price of business travel was initially $1,000 per trip and the price of electronic media was $500 per hour. suppose that, after the price of business travel drops, the company issues a report indicating that its marginal rate of substitution between electronic media and business travel is 1. is the company allocating resources efficiently? explain.

Susan is a 5th grade teacher and loves getting up every day and going to work to teach her students. this is an example of a. extrinsic value b. interests c. intrinsic value d. external value

On december 1, 2017, bigham corporation pays a dividend of $4.00 on each share of its common stock. vanessa and gena, two unrelated shareholders, each own 5,000 shares of the stock. vanessa has owned her stock for two years while gena purchased her stock on november 3, 2017. how does each shareholder treat the $20,000 dividend from bigham