Business in Ethical Focus

The following post has two assignments namely;

1.Business in Ethical Focus

Answer the following two questions in one page. 1. Summarize in your own words Schwartz's proposal for "career and family women." Do you agree with it? Briefly explain. (You may want to discuss one of the criticisms of this proposal made by Ehrenreich and English - either way, make sure to assess Schwartz's proposal in your own words.) 2. In her essay, Anita Superson defends what she calls the "controversial" view that "only men can sexually harass women" and not the other way around. What - in a nutshell - is her argument on this point? Do you agree with her? Briefly explain.

2.Management

Choose five securities among different asset classes (domestic stocks and bonds, foreign stocks and bonds, mutual funds, commodities (futures), ETFs) and perform the following: Obtain 5 years monthly price data for each security; Calculate average return and standard deviation of the return for each security; Calculate variance-covariance and correlation matrices; Calculate the return and standard deviation of the portfolios comprising: all of the securities with equal weights the highest and lowest return securities with the following weights (1;0), (0.9;0.1), (0.8;0.2), etc. securities with the lowest correlation coefficient using following weights (1;0), (0.9;0.1), (0.8;0.2), etc. securities with the highest correlation coefficient using following weights (1;0), (0.9;0.1), (0.8;0.2), etc as well as analyze and compare risk and return of all of the above portfolios. Plot each of the above portfolios on risk-return space. 5. Assuming the current risk free rate equal to a yield on a three-month treasuries, determine the weights of securities in an optimal portfolio (use this excel templatePreview the document). Calculate the return and standard deviation of the market portfolio. Plot the original securities, the risk-free rate and the market portfolio on the risk-return space and show the capital market line.