Bob is your clients and you advise him in his portfolio selections and investment decisions. According to your analysis, Bob has a degree of risk aversion of 3.5. The risk-free rate is currently 3%, the expected return on the market portfolio is 7.2%, and the volatility of the market portfolio is 17%. Advise Bob on his optimal capital allocation by giving the weight (in percentage) to put in the risky market portfolio.

Herman is covered by a cafeteria plan by his employer. his adjusted gross income (agi) is $100,000. he paid unreimbursed medical premiums in the amount of $10,500 and he itemizes deductions. what amount will herman be able to deduct for his medical insurance premium expenses?

King fisher aviation is evaluating an investment project with the following case flows: $6,000 $5,500 $7,000 $8,000 discount rate 14 percent what is the discounted payback period for these cash flows if the initial cost is 15,000? what if the initial cost is $12,000? what if the cost is $16,000?

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do