The Financial Markets are Dynamic Business is“Proactive But Regulators are \Reactive\ not “Proactive The System of Regulation and Enforcement can never be completely Flexible and Dynamic Importance of Fiduciary Responsibility
INVESTMENTS Two-Security Portfolio: Return rp =W+W2r2 W Proportion of funds in Security 1 W2 Proportion of funds in Security 2 =Expected return on Security 1
Capital allocation The choice of proportion in safe asset and proportion in risky asset; Most institutional investors follows top- down analysis---The first part is asset allocation and the next part is security selection decision
Types of market efficiency The weak-form of efficiency: price accurately reflect all information that can be derived by examining market trading data such as past prices, trading volume, short interest rate, etc