A notepad company is looking to repackage and reposition its small notepads. It is thinking of coloring the pages yellow, resizing them into the shape of a stick of butter, and selling them through novelty stores. The company needs this repositioning of its product to succeed. In order for the company to avoid common pitfalls, which areas it should cover in the repositioning process?

Stocks a, b, and c are similar in some respects: each has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 25%. stocks a and b have returns that are independent of one another; i.e., their correlation coefficient, r, equals zero. stocks a and c have returns that are negatively correlated with one another; i.e., r is less than 0. portfolio ab is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half in stock b. portfolio ac is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half invested in stock c. which of the following statements is correct? a. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.b. portfolio ac has an expected return that is less than 10%.c. portfolio ac has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.d. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is equal to 25%.e. portfolio ac has an expected return that is greater than 25%.

Aprice control is: question 1 options: a)a tax on the sale of a good that controls the market price.b)an upper limit on the quantity of some good that can be bought or sold.c)a legal restriction on how high or low a price in a market may go.d)control of the price of a good by the firm that produces it.

Suppose you hold a portfolio consisting of a $10,000 investment in each of 8 different common stocks. the portfolio's beta is 1.25. now suppose you decided to sell one of your stocks that has a beta of 1.00 and to use the proceeds to buy a replacement stock with a beta of 1.55. what would the portfolio's new beta be? do not round your intermediate calculations.