Scenario 5.10: Hillary can invest her family savings in two assets: riskless Treasury bills or a risky vacation home real estate project on an Arkansas river. The expected return on Treasury bills is 4 percent with a standard deviation of zero. The expected return on the real estate project is 30 percent with a standard deviation of 40 percent. Refer to Scenario 5.10. Hillary says that she always would like to take 1 percent higher stadnard deviation as long as the expected return also is 1 percent higher. Giving her preference, how she should invest her saving

Chester has a credit score of 595 according to the following table his credit rating is considered to be which of these

Outstanding stock consists of 8,300 shares of cumulative 7% preferred stock with a $10 par value and 4,300 shares of common stock with a $1 par value. during the first three years of operation, the corporation declared and paid the following total cash dividends. year dividend declared 2016 $ 0 2017 $ 7,300 2018 $ 45,000 the amount of dividends paid to preferred and common shareholders in 2018 is:

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