Investment problems

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NEED THIS TO BE DONE IN 45 MINUTES. URGENT PLEASE. all the names and data in the problem are made up.

1)Susanne constructed a value-weighted index portfolio of AMZN, INTL, and CMCSA stocks last month (t=0) when the stock prices were $3156.13, $50.32, and $46.46, respectively. The number of shares outstanding is 0.5 billion for AMZN, 4.25 billion for INTL, and 4.64 billion for CMCSA. Today’s stock prices (t=1) are $3,286.42, $52.97, and $44.95, respectively. There were neither dividend payments nor any changes in the number of shares outstanding. Tim constructed a portfolio at the same time using the same three stocks as Susanne but he constructed an equally weighted index portfolio.

A) What is the return on Susannes value-weighted index?

B) What is the return on Tims equally-weighted index?

You should show all steps and calculations to find the answer to earn full credit.

Hint: It does not matter how much Susanne and Tim invested in their portfolios because I am asking you to calculate returns. However, if you want to use how much money they invested in their portfolios for convenience in your calculations, you can choose any amount, $100 million, for example.

2)Ms. Scott’s hedge fund focusing on growth stocks began with $200 million and reported 8%, 12%, and -2% returns during the next three months. At the end of the second month, the fund had net inflows of $50 million from new investors. Calculate the arithmetic average, geometric average, and dollar-weighted average returns of this fund. You should show all calculations to find the three average returns to earn full credit.

Natural Disaster

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Recovery efforts are crucial when a disaster devastates a community. The federal government must evaluate the extent of damage to a community to officially declare a disaster. To facilitate recovery, communities rely on the National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) to ensure a recovery plan is in place prior to and after a disaster.

For this assignment, research a natural disaster of your choice that has affected a community within the last five years. It is acceptable to select a disaster in a major surrounding area, if preferred. Identify the communitys existing recovery plans before the disaster and evaluate how the recovery plans met the needs of the state, local and tribal governments, and the community as a whole.

In a summary (500-750 words) include the following:

Provide a brief overview of the selected disaster. Include the community involved, the frequency of disasters in the community, and the population affected by the disaster.
Discuss the role of the federal government during the disaster recovery efforts. What factors contributed to the federal government declaring it a disaster? Did the federal government offer additional support in the response and recovery efforts? If so, how?
Did the community have a mitigation plan developed prior to the disaster? Did those plans help the community in responding to and recovering from the disaster?
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Aligning Performance Appraisals and Compensation Plans

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Aligning Performance Appraisals and Compensation Plans

During the past few weeks, we have learned that there are various methods of conducting employee performance appraisals (e.g., trait, behavioral, ranking, MBO, etc.). Your task for this assignment is to pick one of those methods, explain it, and discuss how it could be effectively used to impact employee compensation.

Your response should consider the potential impact the performance evaluation method could have on at least three different organizational stakeholder groups. Also, your assignment must include your thoughts on what organizations can do to prevent ethical and legal challenges that might from arise from linking the method of performance appraisal you chose to employee compensation.

Your assignment should be approximately 5-7 pages in length (not including cover page and reference list) and include ample scholarly and professional sources to support your key ideas. This assignment will be graded according to the rubric attached below.

the poem is momma by chrystal meeker.

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1. Paper 1 focuses on your interpretation of the meaning of one poem chosen from the previous pages of this module.

2. The paper has a short introduction paragraph, which includes

a lead-in line to get the paper started [don’t start the first line of the paper with the thesis]; this is just a general statement of the topic of the paper,
the title of the poem [in quotation marks],
the name of the poet,
the thesis [your opinion about what the poem means or its major theme or idea].
3. The thesis makes one arguable point about the theme (point, meaning, your interpretation) of the poem. Your thesis is arguable; that is, it takes a stand that other people who read the poem might disagree with but one which you support. The thesis is your interpretation of a theme, point, or meaning of the poem.

4. Include at least two body paragraphs. In the body paragraphs, you will want to

thoroughly explain all your ideas,
make every sentence clear and understandable to the reader
not use any contractions,
not use the words you, your, yours, (second person point of view)
not use the words I, me, mine, our, us (first person point of view)
use the literary present tense of verbs to talk about your poem.  For example, “the man stands in the house remembering”, not “stood”; or “the poem is about a man who has lost his family,”  not “was about a man.”
5. Back up your ideas in your body paragraphs with quotations from the poem.  Put quotation marks around the quotations.  After the quotation, put the line number in parenthesis.  Be sure to lead into the quotation before giving the quotation.  After the quotation tell what the quotation suggests to you or your interpretation of the quotation.  Link this discussion to the topic sentence of the paragraph and to the thesis of the paper. 

6. Since this is a paper about a poem, be sure to use the forward slash correctly between lines of the poem that you quote .  When you quote, quote accurately. Use ellipsis to indicate any omissions you have made from the original quotation. Use square brackets to enclose any change you make in the original, including ellipsis. If your quotation from the poem is long (more than 4 lines of the poem), display the quotation as a long quotation. See pages 52-57 in The Little, Brown Essentials Handbook for information on writing about literature.

7.  End the paper with a short conclusion paragraph that echoes or mirrors the thesis in some way and that wraps up the entire paper.

8. Since this is a first writing, you do NOT need to write title page.  You do NOT need to write an outline page.  You do NOT need to write a Work Cited page. 

9. Give your paper a title that is NOT the title of the poem. Type the title, at the top and centered, on the first page of the paper itself.

10. Assigned length: 300-500 words

11. Avoid using first person (“I” or “me” or “my”) and second person (“you” or “your” or “yours) pronouns.  These pronouns make the paper less formal than a paper for college should be.

12. Avoid using contractions such as “doesn’t” or “isn’t” or “can’t”.  Instead write out the full words “does not” or “is not” or “can not.”  Using contractions make the paper less formal than a paper for college should be.

13. Underline the thesis in your introduction paragraph.  Your thesis shou