What is the purpose of tax-deferred retirement accounts?
°δ°to encourage consumers to invest money before it is taxed
°δ°to level high taxes on a consumer at retirement age
°δ°to collect taxes during retirement at higher rates
°δ°to trick consumers into investments that will incur fines and penalties

Beta coefficients and the capital asset pricing model personal finance problem katherine wilson is wondering how much risk she must undertake to generate an acceptable return on her porfolio. the risk-free return currently is 4%. the return on the overall stock market is 14%. use the capm to calculate how high the beta coefficient of katherine's portfolio would have to be to achieve a portfolio return of 16%.

Your mother's well-diversified portfolio has an expected return of 12.0% and a beta of 1.20. she is in the process of buying 100 shares of safety corp. at $10 a share and adding it to her portfolio. safety has an expected return of 15.0% and a beta of 2.00. the total value of your current portfolio is $9,000. what will the expected return and beta on the portfolio be after the purchase of the safety stock?

When slick heating company switched to an activity based costing system, it realized that it was allocating a much lower percentage of factory overhead to a product line that the marketing department was trying to push. the product line may contain which type of products?