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Assignment #2-1

BANK3004 (SP2, 2022)

Portfolio and Fund Management

Assessment 2-1: Portfolio Analysis

INTRODUCTION

In this assessment, you will investigate the risk and returns of portfolios of selected securities. You will use Excel to calculate and prepare the key measures, tables and charts. You will       prepare a report in which you examine, explain, and evaluate your results. This report should reflect your learning on portfolio theory, CAPM, and portfolio performance evaluation.

TEAMWORK

This Assignment will be done in a team of 2-4 students. Therefore, you must form your  group with at least one other student. Since this is a group assignment, only one final    assignment document must be submitted by one member of the group.  The full names and student email IDs (usernames) of all the group members must be shown clearly on the cover sheet and in the document’s footer.

WHAT TO SUBMIT?

1.       Submit group allocation details by 1 Apr.

Download and fill in the Group Allocation Submission Form” available on the course website. Email this form to the lecturer (winston.wu@unisa.edu.au). The group should nominate a team

leader” who can be contacted, if necessary. The team leader must be identified on the list of names for the team (along with his or her email contact).

2.       Submit the assignment as a team by 24 Apr 2022 at 23:00:00 (Adelaide time). The assignment will be submitted by one member of the team, preferably, the leader of the team.

3.       Submit  filled  Assessment  of Group  Member  Contribution  Form”  via  your assessment 2- 1 submission link. The template is available on the course website in Assessment section. ALL group members need to be peer reviewed.

In summary, one member of the group (preferable the team leader) will submit the group report, along with his/her Assessment of Group Member Contribution Form” . Other member of the group will submit his/her Assessment of Group

Member Contribution Form” only.                                                                          An assignment grade will not be awarded to students who fail to submit the peer reviews.

ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES:

Please read below the detailed instructions for the task you need to do in this assessment.

The Task

A.     Selecting the Companies and Collecting the Dataset

1.       To simulate a securities research environment, you need to collect your research data from public data providers. Detailed instructions on how to collect the assignment data are  available.  See  Acquiring  Assignment  2  Data  from  Yahoo  Finance”  in  the Assessment section on the course website.

Please note that the document provides instruction on how to download data from Yahoo Finance, its date range is not relevant to this assignment.

In total, you should download a dataset contains 5 selected companies over the 10-year period between Jan 2012 and Dec 2021.

2.       To form your portfolio, select 5 companies that:

•    are constituents of the current ASX200 index. See ASX200 Share List” in the Assessment section on the course website;

•    are present at the beginning of the 10-year sample period;

•   have no more than  10 months of missing data over the  10-year period. You should use linear approximation to fill in missing monthly prices. That is, if the

price in Month 1 is $2 and the price in Month 3 is $4 then fill in the missing price in Month 2 as $3; and

•   your choice of companies should be guided by some underlying philosophy’ as explained next.

This selection should be done qualitatively but be guided by some principle(s) or theory or financial idea(s) (such as consideration of diversification in your portfolio) to achieve intended outcomes, and be logical. You should be able to explain your rationale for the selection of the 5 companies in the report. No calculations should be necessary for this selection of 5 companies. However, you may use any information that is readily available for these companies.

B.     Portfolio Analysis using Excel

Use Excel and its relevant functions or tools (including the matrix procedures and array’ functions) to complete the tasks listed below.

For  help  with Excel  and  Solver,  please  download  Solver  and  Covariance  Matrix Examples.xlsx under Assessment Information and Resources.

For each of the 5 chosen shares:

1.       Collect the stock’s beta (5Y monthly) from Yahoo! Finance. It is available under “Summary” .

2.       Generate monthly returns.

3.       Use the monthly rates of return to find the mean and standard deviation of the monthly returns.

4.       Construct a covariance matrix of monthly returns for your chosen shares.

5.       For an equally weighted portfolio comprised of the chosen shares, calculate its monthly mean return and standard deviation of returns. Call this portfolio V.

6.       Construct an equally weighted portfolio using any three of your chosen shares. Calculate its monthly mean return and standard deviation of returns. Call this portfolio W.

Use the sample statistics in Excel, wherever appropriate, for steps 2 and 3 (namely, STDEV.S and COVARIANCE.S).

Next, assume that no short sales are allowed. Use the Excel Solver tool to complete tasks 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.

6 .      Produce the global minimum variance portfolio based on all of your chosen shares.

Calculate its monthly mean return and standard deviation of returns. Call this portfolio G.

7 .      Find three points on the efficient frontier available through appropriate weighting

of each of all your chosen shares. Call these portfolios E1, E2 and E3 . (Hint: think about adding a constraint for the expected return for each efficient portfolio in Solver).

Find    an    appropriate    risk-free    rate.    Go    to    the    website    of   the    RBA (https://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/tables/#interest-rates table F2. 1) to look for the yield of long-term Treasury Bonds. You should use the yield as of the end of the sample period (i.e. December 2021). Convert the annual rate to a monthly rate for use in this work as your returns (and price) data are monthly.

Make sure that you show this annual rate and its source clearly in Part 2 of the report.

8 .      Identify the optimal risky portfolio based on your chosen shares and find its

monthly mean return and standard deviation of returns. Call this portfolio O.

9 .      Identify the efficient portfolio with the highest expected return. Call this portfolio

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1 0 .   Calculate the Sharpe Ratio, Treynor Ratio, Jensen’s Alpha and any other measures

that could provide useful information when comparing the portfolios. Hint: To compute Jensen’s Alpha, you can use 6. 1% as the annual market risk premium. (Brailsford, T., Handley, J. C., & Maheswaran, K. (2012). The historical equity risk premium in Australia: Post GFC and  128 years of data. Accounting and Finance, 52(1), 237-247)

1 1 .   Plot all the created portfolios and individual shares, in one chart, in an Expected

Return-Standard Deviation graph using the Excel charting functions.

You must label all the portfolios and shares clearly in this chart so that these can be easily identified. This chart should be pasted into the body of the written Word report, which you will convert into PDF format.

The Report- Specific Requirements

Your report includes two parts as follows.

Part 1  Portfolio Analysis (Essay)

Evaluate the risk-return attributes of the portfolios, their importance, and your choice of the 5 shares, using any principles and/or theory to inform your analysis.

In particular, in your report, you should ensure that you properly:

1.       Evaluate the underlying rationale for your selection of the 5 shares.

2.       Evaluate the risk-return characteristics of the portfolios based on theory. Examine if the portfolios that you have generated exhibit the properties suggested by the insights you have gained from your study of the topics we considered. Consider if any portfolios have unusual or unexpected characteristics and why this may be so.

3.       Compare the portfolios using the risk-adjusted measures you have calculated. Rank the portfolios  based  on  these  measures.  Consider  if  any  portfolios  have  unusual  or unexpected ranks and why this may be so.

Note: The word limit for this part is 1200 words, with about 400 words for the security selection and about 800 words for the portfolio analysis parts.

This count does not include the reference list, tables, charts or figures and their headings.        Show the word count at the end of the essay (use the Word Count in the Tools menu of Word).

Part 2  Portfolio Results (Data Analysis)

This section should be presented as an Appendix in the following format using no more than three single-sided pages.

1.      Identify your portfolios and shares to present all the key performance and risk measures. Naturally, an identification of a portfolio implies giving the weights assigned to each share in the portfolio and the name of each share. Identify the names of the companies using their names, ASX identification codes and numbers assigned in the data set.

Present  all  the  information  for the  companies  in  alphabetic  ascending  order. Each company must be identified by its Name and Code.

2.      Include the covariance matrix.

Note: Do not present the raw share prices or the returns data.

3.      Present a mean-standard deviation chart to represent all the portfolios and shares in the

one chart. Clearly label each portfolio and share. This chart must be prepared using Excel. Present the chart on one A4-size page.

Note: Use percentage format to three decimal places for the relevant numbers. A neat, concise and compact presentation of number work is essential and will be rewarded.

General Requirements

1.  You must use the matrix procedures in Excel for this activity, wherever these procedures are appropriate. However, do not submit any Excel files. Please read the report requirements given later carefully.

2.  In your final report, show your monthly statistics in percentages, to three decimal places, and present the information in percentage format. Your workings should be done in decimals but their presentation in the report is required in percentages.

3.  Do not include the assessment questions in your submission. Do not include the Excel files in your submission, as these are not required for marking. The relevant table(s) and charts can be inserted from Excel into your document.

4.  The Report should initially be prepared entirely in a Word format and then converted to PDF format. The complete report must be presented as one document in PDF format. Use Word’s “Save As” function with the PDF option.

5.  Prepare your typed report, using 1.5 line spacing, three centimetre margins, and single-sided pages, covering the assessment requirements as indicated above. Use Word to number all the pages in your Report appropriately.

6.  Do not submit any Excel file(s) as these are not required and will not be marked.

7.  Record the report’s title and the names of each member of your team on the cover sheet, with the surname (last name) first, followed by the first name (given name) and the student number.

8.  By submitting the work as a group with your name, each group member undertakes that the work is their own effort and is done as a group project with each member contributing to every part and to the whole.

9.  You should read the Assessment Feedback form and note the listed requirements to enhance the content and presentation of your report.

10.As this report is based on several calculations, clear presentation is essential for your results (as in tables and charts), measures and variables.

11.The report must be written clearly (with content well organised). It is strongly recommended to have someone check your grammar and writing before submission.

12.UniSA  treats  academic  misconduct  seriously.  You  should  use  the  Harvard-UniSA referencing  style  and  list  the  bibliographic  references  at  the  end  of your  report  that correspond to your in-text citations. The library has information on referencing  styles https://www.library.unisa.edu.au/referencing-roadmap.   Please   contact   the   Academic Library Team ([email protected]) if you have general questions about referencing or credible sources of information. Please contact the Student Engagement Unit, Study  Help  (https://lo.unisa.edu.au/course/view.php?id=4074)  if  you  have  a  specific question on how to refer to a particular source. Violation of this requirement will result in a penalty of 10% deducted from the total awarded mark for the assessment 2- 1. Also, please have a quick look at this video (http://helix.unisa.edu.au/flash/11460547_hi.mp4) that may

help you figure out the scope of Academic Integrity. More information about Academic Integrity is available at https://lo.unisa.edu.au/mod/book/view.php?id=252142.

Please be careful about paraphrasing. The definition of paraphrasing and extra information can  be  found  at  https://lo.unisa.edu.au/mod/book/view.php?id=252144.  Any  academic integrity misconduct will be reported to the UniSA integrity officer who will examine the case independently and decide your final mark for the assessment.

13.Submission due date is 24 Apr 2022 at 23:00:00, Adelaide time. Submit your complete introduction including references and appendices as one document via TurnItIn on the LearnOnline system. Please write your names, student IDs and the word count of your document at the first page of your report. One member of the team should submit the report.

14.Late submission: a 10% penalty (of the maximum mark allocated for the assessment) will be incurred for each calendar day the assignment is late by. The closing date is 1 May, 2022 at 23:00:00. No submission will be accepted after the closing date.

15.While you may consult with others, please note that this is a team assignment. To protect the academic integrity of the course, if there are doubts that the work that you, as a team, have submitted for an assessment item is your own, you may be asked to complete an additional test (which may be verbal). This test would be held within 2 weeks of the submission of the assessment. If it appears that your submitted assignment is not your own, the mark for the team for this assignment item will be automatically zero and your case will be reported to the integrity office.