VSK enterprises can issue a 30-year, bonds with an annual rate of 10%. Its investment bankers also also stated that the company can sell an issue of annual payment preferred stock to corporate investors who are in the 21% tax bracket. The after tax premium on preferred stock will exceed the after tax cost on bonds by 2%, which would represent the higher risk on preferred stock. What coupon rate must be set on the preferred in order to issue it at par

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Monthly price data for mdltx and ekwax from yahoo finance is contained in the excel spreadsheet for this exercise. there are 37 months of price data for the period from september 2009 to september 2012. (note: these prices already incorporate dividend payments.) the 36 monthly returns for each fund are also provided. calculate average (arithmetic) monthly return and standard deviation for each fund. you can use the excel functions average, stdev to derive these stats. annualize these statistics. use the correl function in excel to derive the correlation coefficient between the two sets of returns. (annual correlation is the same as monthly correlation. hence, no need to annualize this stat.) using the annualized statistics derived in step 1, compute the expected return and standard deviation for portfolios containing from 0% to 100% mdltx (and 100% to 0% ekwax) by 10% increments. graph the resulting portfolios. based on your analysis, is there any potential benefit to diversification across these two funds? explain. of the 11 portfolios you graphed, which are efficient?

Which of the following methods is designed to determine the demographics of a particular target market? primary market research secondary market research diversity marketing differentiated marketing