401K Financial Planning

Trebor Y asked:

Stock A has a beta of .80, Stock B has a beta of 1.40, and Stock C has a beta of -0.30. What is the rank of stock from most risky to least risky? If there is an anticipated major stock market decline, which stock should be added and why? If the return on the market portfolio increases by 12%, what change could be expected in the return for each of these stocks and why? If the return on the market portfolio declines by 5%, what change can be expected in the return for each of these stocks and why?

I hate stocks. How do i do this?


Question posted courtesy of: Charlene

bantyran asked:

Hey..

I’m a US citizen (indian ethnicity though) and my parents are indian origin and also citizens. My question is that a friend here had money saved in india in a NRI account. He invested in mutual funds through the bank and returns were about 35% in just the first year, they had invested close to $60K.. that was pretty marvelous returns. But they invested through the bank there in india from the money he had in the account there.

My question is, i want to invest in india too Those are emerging and monstrous markets in every field. So how can i invest from here? Which brokerage will be able to invest directly into the Mutual funds and stocks of the indian market? I want to be offered the same funds as the banks in india offer. I’ve researched and i’m not finding any investment firm here that is big name and investing into india for investors… I want to be able to bring the money back into Dollar currency later. What about Taxes?

Any and all info is appreciated…thanks


Question posted courtesy of: Ruby

Kevin S asked:

I am getting started in the market soon (bit more research yet), and I want to kick it off with a mutual fund purchase. I need a screener that is free, but still has enough features to find what I need. Any sites or information is helpful. It must provide information for international funds (I plan on having my own diversified U.S. stocks, I don’t need to waste my time getting more only to pay fees on them). This includes emerging markets, regionals, globals, etc. Thanks!


Question posted courtesy of: Mathew

sam k asked:

Simulation games are usually played on the internet, where people can experience the thrill of investing in the stock market without any risks, costs or any fear of losing money when and if they make a poor investment decision.

Many teachers and professors of banking and finance are now using stock market simulation games to teach their students about the rudiments of investing in stocks. Most stock market simulation games come with a fee to get started, but there are some that are free of any charge.One need not ve prior knowledge about the stock market to join.

This is how stock market simulation games usually work:

First, players must register. After registration, players are given an initial sum of “virtual” money to invest in companies of their choice. Players build a portfolio of stocks by buying and selling shares in companies. Most stock market simulation games use real-time market data.
objective of most stock market simulation games is

http://www.freewebs.com/allstocks


Question posted courtesy of: Ricardo

monaya asked:

I’m confused. I purchased stock using Sharebuilder let’s say for $500. My stock has gone down and the market value on the stock I own is now $300. Sharebuilder shows the “loss” of $200 as still existing in my Money Market account as a balance I can withdraw funds from or use towards investing.

How is that my stock price went down and the loss is still there? Shouldn’t that money be gone. That would mean you can’t lose the money you put in even if the stock went down?


Question posted courtesy of: Gary

rohit asked:

In Stock Ticker, you roll the dice to see what happens to the stocks. There are three possible outcomes for a stock: stock goes up, stock goes down, and stock pays dividend. We will ignore the case of dividends for this question. When a stock changes value, it can change by an amount of 0.05, 0.10, or 0.20.
(A) Write a pseudocode function that rolls the dice and figures out by how much a stock will change, returning the amount of change.
(B) Write pseudocode that initializes the stock values as an array, and then calculates the new values of the stocks after rolling all the dice 5 times. Call the function in (A) to figure out the amount of change, and roll one extra die to determine which stock to apply the result to.


Question posted courtesy of: Earl

Dr. Knowe Nuthing asked:

I’m trying to invest for financial security, Is five thousand dollars enough to start investing into something that will pay off down the road ?


Question posted courtesy of: Jeanette

elicia b asked:

ok i’m a 18 and my question is i want to invest my $200 in something maybe like stocks or something in a short time frame like months. should i do mutal funds,cds, but i can’t take them out until a year. i’m looking to make my $200 hundrend dollars to maybe $400 hundred in short period monthly time how would that be possible. is their anyway or any books(free books online ) or something about investing your money into something. i don’t have lot of money but it’s spare money i could waste on junk like normal teen but I’m trying to be ritch before my 20’s lol. but for reals someone please give me a site or leave email t explain to me about stocks and investing please. ok thanks bye. I’M NEW AT THIS INVESTING.


Question posted courtesy of: Leo

coolcatjazzman asked:

If you came into a large sum of money how would you invest it? I think I would go with ROTH IRA’s but you can only do $3000 a year and have to be making under $100,000 a year. Maybe throw in some mutual funds with that. What would you do?


Question posted courtesy of: Caroline

Gwapings asked:

i bought a stock today oct 01 for 700 per share, ididnt notice there where stock dividend happening. what do they mean by this?

Please be informed that the Board of Directors of China Bank at its special meeting held today approved to fix - a. 04 October 2007 as the record date of the twenty-five (25%) percent cash dividend of the par value of each share or P25.00 per share, adopting the same record date set by the Commission for the twenty-five (25%) percent stock dividend to meet the paid-in subscription requirement on the Bank’s increase in capital stock from Pesos Ten (P10.0B) B to Pesos Sixteen (P16.0B) B, and b. 30 October 2007 as the payment and/or issuance dates of the cash and stock dividends, and for said purpose to have the Bank’ transfer books closed from 05 October 2007 to 19 October 2007, inclusive. CASH DIVIDEND CASH - P25.00 per share EX-DATE - October 1, 2007 RECORD DATE - October 4, 2007 PAYMENT DATE - October 30, 2007 STOCK DIVIDEND STOCK - 25% EX-DATE - October 1, 2007 RECORD DATE - October 4, 2007 PAYMENT DATE - October 30, 2007


Question posted courtesy of: Erik