Discuss the general investment environment in the U.S

Discuss the general investment environment in the U.S

Subject: Business    / Finance
Question

1. Discuss the general investment environment in the U.S. and comment on the need to invest in global securities.

2. Discuss how an investor can account for risk in a portfolio, including the need to adjust the risk of a portfolio relative to an investors individual needs.

3. Financial theory normally supports coporate use of debt to lower the overall cost of capital. Research an S & P 500 firm with little to no debt and discuss their strategic reasoning for not borrowing and the ramifications associated with their WACC.

4. Find the current beta for an S & P 500 company and discuss why you believe the firm has such a Beta, and discuss the ovweall riskiness of the firm from a stockholders viewpoint.

5. Present and analyze the effectiveness of the current Federal Reserve monetary policy

6. Discuss the impacts of large negative current account balances for a country. In addition, is a negative acount balance always bad for a country’s economy?

7. Discuss why an international firm may or may not have a lower cost of capital than a similar domestic only firm:

8. Discuss key points of the recent Dodd-Frank legislation and discuss the important pros and cons of this legislation on major financial institutions