Sultan Qaboos University Saudi Telecom Company Stock Market Problems

I’m working on a finance multi-part question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

Assignment Part 1:

Portfolio Return •To create the portfolio choose three stocks: one from any GCC stock market, one from the US stock market, and one from the London stock market. •Collect data related to three years: 2017, 2018, 2019 for the following items: •Price at the beginning of the year and price at the end of year •Dividends declared during the year -both cash dividend and stock dividend. •Check if there was any stock split, rights issue or bonus issue. •Calculate HPR and HPY for each stock for each year. •Calculate portfolio HPR and HPY for each year. •Plot the portfolio HPY in the form a graph

Assignment Part 2:

Asset Allocation •Choose two mutual funds from any part of the world. •Collect the following information related to the two mutual funds. •Asset allocation –asset allocation can include allocation into different types of assets or geographical asset allocation or sector allocation (include as many as possible. Report the asset allocation using a pie chart. •Style box if available •Performance of the two mutual funds in terms of return. •Performance of the two mutual funds in terms of risk. Risk measures include standard deviation, variance, coefficient of variation and Sharpe ratio. •Benchmark index •

Assignment Part 3

FIND THE NAV FOR ANY TWO MUTUAL FUNDSFROMWEBSITES SUCH AS INVESTING.COM, YAHOO FINANCE, MORNINGSTAROR ANY OTHER WEBSITE

Get NAVfor1^st June 2020 (or any date in June 2020).

Get NAV as of today 18^th November 2020 (or any date in November 2020)

Calculate HPR and HPY

Report the information you collected – name of the fund, source of data, NAV in June and november and HPR, HYP you calculated in the form of a table

Investments

Assignment Part 4

In part 1 you have selected stocks from three countries.For the same three countries collect data related to the stock market index in that country for the same period:

Mention the name of the index for which you are collecting data

Collect data for 2017, 2018, and 2019:Index at the beginning of the year and index at the end of the year.

Calculate HPR and HPY for each index for each year.

Plot the HPYs of the indexes in form of a graph.

Compare and comment on the performance of your portfolio which you created in part 1 with the performance of the three indexes.

Create another graph showing HPY of your portfolio and the HPYs of the three indexes.

As an investor where would you make more money, investing in your portfolio or investing in any one of the indexes? Explain.