LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Com. DEGREE EXAMINATION – COMMERCE
THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2012
CO 3802 – SECURITY ANALYSIS & PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Date : 21-04-2012 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
SECTION – A Answer ALL questions ( 10 x 2 = 20 )
- What is mean by investment?
- What are the two components of Indian capital market?
- What are the determinants of expected return?
- In what way the financial investment is different from general investment?
- On what basis strong form of efficient market hypothesis differ from the weak form?
- Explain any two key factors involved in firm specific analysis.
- What are the features of contingent investment?
- What do mean by portfolio?
- Information about return on an investment is as follows: (a) risk free rate 10%; (b) market return is 15%; (c) beta is 1.2. What should be the return from the investment?
- Security A and B have standard deviations of 5% and 8%. Mr. Shyam is planning to invest 30% of his funds in security A and the balance in Security B. Ascertain portfolio risk, if correlation is 1.
SECTION – B Answer any five questions ( 5 x 8 = 40 ) |
- What is charting technique? What are its underlying basic concepts?
- Enumerate the assumptions of Random walk theory.
- On what basis efficient market theory is criticized?
- What are the points to be considered in Portfolio evaluation?
- Give an account of various tests conducted under Semi-strong form.
- Distinguish between systematic and unsystematic risk.
- What are the assumptions of CAPM?
- Novel owns a portfolio of two securities with the following expected returns, standard deviations, and weights:
Security | Expected Return | Standard deviation | weight |
X | 12% | 15% | .40 |
Y | 15% | 20% | .60 |
What are the (i) Maximum and (ii) Minimum portfolio standard deviations for varying levels of correlation between two securities?
SECTION – C Answer any TWO questions ( 2 x 20 = 40 )
- Give a brief of the economic wide factors involved the investment decision making process.
- What is portfolio construction and revision? Identify and discuss the factors contributing to portfolio management.
- Write short notes on:
- a) Titular investment
- b) Speculation
- c) Stock split
- d) Dow Theory
- e) Foreign institutional investors
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