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Your firm faces an 8% chance of a potential loss of $50 million next year.If your firm implements new safety policies,it can reduce the chance of this loss to 3%,but the new safety policies have an upfront cost of $250,000.Suppose that the beta of the loss is 0 and the risk-free rate of interest is 5%.
-Assuming that your firm will purchase insurance,what is the minimum-size deductible that would leave your firm with an incentive to implement the new safety policies?

Understand the computation of dollar-weighted and time-weighted returns on investments.

Gain knowledge on the use of Sharpe, Treynor, Jensen, and information ratio measures to evaluate investment performance.

Calculate and analyze the performance measures of mutual funds and individual stocks.

Understand the impact of asset allocation and selection within markets on the total abnormal return of an investment.

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