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Problem 1
a) Base on the Bank of Canada website, as of December 31, 2014, the total balance outstanding of Treasury Bills and Bonds is 628,665,887,500("Government of Canada Treasury Bills and Domestic Marketable Bonds Outstanding", 2016), as of April 30, 2016, the total balance outstanding of Treasury Bills and Bonds is 655,400,506,500 ("Government of Canada Treasury Bills and Domestic Marketable Bonds Outstanding", 2016)
What happened: The total balance outstanding of Treasury Bills and Bonds is increasing.
I would invest in bonds.
2 examples of fixed-income:
Preferred stock, corporate bonds
Additional risk:
Interest rate risk: When the interest rate goes up, the bond price will goes down.
Inflation risk: When the inflation comes …show more content…

Second, when the growth happens for the stock, the investor can achieve more money. Third, the investor can avoid inflation through buying stocks.
Investing call options: First, to achieve the benefits from differences in price. If the future price increases, the investor can sell it at a higher price to get benefit. Second, investing call options can reduce transaction exposure. Third, the investor can achieve leverage effect and take advantage of the leverage effect to do the transaction.
Investing put options: First, to achieve the benefits from differences in price as well. Second, the investor can achieve leverage effect. Third, investing put options can protect book profit.

c) Cumulative returns:
S&P/TSX is: 8.10% Nikkei 225 is: -8.33% FTSE 100 is: 3.08% DAX is: -1.44%
Plot:
S&P/TSX:

Nikkei 225:

FTSE 100:

DAX:

How to calculate: Using excel. First finding out the price data from the beginning of 2016 to the end of April on the internet (yahoo finance), and then using everyday’s price to calculate the returns. Base on the returns, using I dollar invest as a transaction to calculate the monthly cumulative returns. Finally, adding monthly cumulative returns to get cumulative returns of these four months.
Highest performance and reasons: S&P/TSX: The highest performance is at the end of April, 2016 (April 29, 2016). Because mining stocks increased to a highest price

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