Which of the following is not common to all investments?
A) Investors are required to pay some price to acquire them.
B) Owners are given the opportunity to receive future payments.
C) Future payments are typically risky.
D) Paying a positive rate of interest.

Option D is the correct answer

Explanation:

Investors are typically expected to part with their funds today in expectation for a future amount,hence the funds so invested are invested for speculative reasons.

Owners are given the option of future payments at redemption of the investments while some investments can be divested before maturity.

Future payments are naturally risky because investment is like two sides of a coin, it either has a positive or negative outcome such loss of the entire invested sum.

Not all investments pay positive rate of interest, the US bank deposit interest was negative during the global meltdown in 2009.

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

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