Affirmative action programs a. are not imposed by federal law on employers. b. involve the recruitment, hiring, promotion, and training of qualified individuals. c. are not very commonly used anymore because of reverse discrimination concerns. d. only involve the training of individuals. e. involve the promotion of unqualified employees.

The de mesa family will soon be occupying their newly renovated house. however, the bathroom measuring 10ft. by 16 ft. still needs to be covered by tiles. if the tile that they desire measures 2/5 ft by 2/5 ft., how many tiles will they need to cover the bathroom floor?

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?

Agency costs do not involve costs that are incurred from managers pursuing their own interests at the expense of shareholder value and do not involve costs that are incurred by shareholders to make sure that managers pursue shareholder value.