Percival Hygiene has $10 million invested in long-term corporate bonds. This bond portfolio's expected annual rate of return is 9 percent, and the annual standard deviation is 10 percent. Amanda Reckonwith, Percival's financial adviser, recommends that Percival consider investing in an index fund which closely tracks the Standard and Poor's 500 index. The index has an expected return of 14 percent, and its standard deviation is 16 percent.

A) Suppose Percival puts all his money in a combination of the index fund and Treasury bills. Can he thereby improve his expected rate of return without changing the risk of his portfolio? The Treasury bill yield is 6 percent.

B) Could Percival do even better by investing equal amounts in the corporate bond portfolio and the index fund? The correlation between the bond portfolio and the index fund is +.1

In its first year of operations, crane company recognized $31,700 in service revenue, $7,700 of which was on account and still outstanding at year-end. the remaining $24,000 was received in cash from customers. the company incurred operating expenses of $16,600. of these expenses, $12,690 were paid in cash; $3,910 was still owed on account at year-end. in addition, crane prepaid $3,260 for insurance coverage that would not be used until the second year of operations.

Cosmetic profits. sally is the executive vice president of big name cosmetics company. through important and material, nonpublic information, she learns that the company is soon going to purchase a smaller chain of stores. it is expected that stock in big name cosmetics will rise dramatically at that point. sally immediately buys a number of shares of her company's stock. she also tells her friend alice about the expected purchase of stores. alice wanted to purchase stock in the company but lacked the funds with which to do so. although she did not have the funds in bank a, alice decided to draw a check on bank a and deposit the check in bank b and then proceed to write a check on bank b to cover the purchase of the stock. she hoped that she would have sufficient funds to deposit before the check was presented for payment. of which of the following offenses, if any, is alice guilty of by buying stock?

Which statement best describes the variety of workplaces commonly found in the health science career cluster? a. workplaces in this cluster include healthcare facilities such as hospitals, physician offices, and clinics. b. workplaces in this cluster include healthcare facilities, laboratories, and other environments such as offices or homes. c . workplaces in this cluster include nonprofit hospitals, government-run clinics, and private physicians' offices. d. workplaces in this cluster include private and nonprofit hospitals and clinics, and dentists' offices.