Arecent innovation by amazon, the vendor flex program, seeks to lower overall transportation costs but also creates new forms of channel conflict with competitors. as a partner in the vendor flex program, p& g agreed to allow amazon to build fulfillment centers within p& g's own warehouses, thus to eliminate some of the costs of transporting p& g's products to amazon's fulfillment centers. believing that the program was giving its competitor amazon an unfair advantage, target reacted vigorously, moving all p& g products from prominent end-cap positions in its stores to less prestigious and less visible locations. target also stopped using p& g as its primary source of advice for planning merchandising strategies within each category. this is an example of channel conflict.

You manage an equity fund with an expected risk premium of 10% and a standard deviation of 14%. the rate on treasury bills is 6%. your client chooses to invest $60,000 of her portfolio in your equity fund and $40,000 in a t-bill money market fund. what is the expected return and standard deviation of return on your client’s portfolio?

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The east asiatic company (eac), a danish company with subsidiaries throughout asia, has been funding its bangkok subsidiary primarily with u. s. dollar debt because of the cost and availability of dollar capital as opposed to thai baht-denominated (b) debt. the treasurer of eac-thailand is considering a 1-year bank loan for $247,000.the current spot rate is b32.03 /$, and the dollar-based interest is 6.78% for the 1-year period. 1-year loans are 12.04% in baht. a. assuming expected inflation rates of 4.3 % and 1.24% in thailand and the united states, respectively, for the coming year, according to purchase power parity, what would the effective cost of funds be in thai baht terms? b. if eac's foreign exchange advisers believe strongly that the thai government wants to push the value of the baht down against the dollar by5% over the coming year (to promote its export competitiveness in dollar markets), what might the effective cost of funds end up being in baht terms? c. if eac could borrow thai baht at 13% per annum, would this be cheaper than either part (a) or part (b) above?