Quantitative Finance

QUESTION 6 D- Based on the AW value you got in the previous 3 questions, which machine we should select? type you explanation below For the toolbar, press ALT+F10 (PC) or ALT+FN+F10 (Mac).

Dagmar has a 4-year car loan at an annual interest rate of 6.5%. She has made 28 payments of $978.77. If Dagmar decides to pay off her loan, what is her payoff amount (in dollars)? (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)

According to Descarte's rule of signs, the possible number of rate of return values for the net cash flow

→ Plot the minimum-variance frontier (without the riskless asset) generated by the ten industry portfolios, with expected (monthly) return on the vertical axis and standard deviation of (monthly) return on the horizontal axis. This plot should cover the range from 0% to 2% on the vertical axis, in increments of 0.1% (or less).

Industry Portfolios.xlsx contains monthly nominal (net) returns for ten industry portfolios, expressed in percent. These returns cover the ten-year period from Jan 2004 through Dec 2013. Use these returns to estimate the vector of mean returns and the covariance matrix of returns for the ten industry portfolios. → Create a table showing the mean return and standard deviation of return for the ten industry portfolios.

QUESTION 2 B- Based on the AW value you got in the previous question, is this investment economically justified or not? type you explanation below For the toolbar, press ALT+F10 (PC) or ALT+FN+F10 (Mac).

The rate of return for alternative X is 18% per year and for alternative Y is 17%, with