The essay must have the prescribed cover sheet page
Submission: (hard copies)
Submit no later than 17h30 on 17 March 2020 the hardcopy of the typed report in the box in the EMS building, Level 3, outside room 3.34. In addition to the hard copy that is handed in, an electronic version of your excel calculations (in Microsoft’s EXCEL) must be submitted electronically to uwcfintutor@gmail.com no later than 17h30 on 17 March 2020 No excuses for emailing problems will be accepted!!. (Late submissions will not be accepted.)
Also, a composite benchmark, against which the fund will be measured, will be constructed according to the following weights to the asset classes:
Show your recommended optimal portfolio based on the use of the Beta constraints indicated by the Trustees.
Motivate your final proposed optimal portfolio that you believe will best meet the needs of the Fund.
MAN307: Length: The body of the report (excluding cover page, table of content, bibliography, graphs and tables) should not exceed 7 pages.
Should be typed: 12 font; 1,5 spacing, Arial
Cover sheet:
The cover sheet below must be completed, printed and attached to the FRONT of your assignment that is handed in. The cover sheet must be page one of your assignment.
Too much reproduction of the assignment question - should be succinct and in students own words.
No mention of treatment of data. For example: Was the data left in its “raw” state? Were any asset class returns transformed using logarithms?
Efficient frontier lines that miss the data points substantially.
Graphs and tables that are shaded very dark, have dark backgrounds and very difficult to read.
Models, other Internet material and accessible content is used and not acknowledged.
The conclusion does not address the question directly by providing the required output. Alternatively, the “Results” should be positioned immediately before the conclusion and provide a clear picture of the necessary output for the answer to the assignment question.
When completing your assignment, imagine that the audience is a delegation of executives from the IMF and other central banks. You should assume that the audience consists of highly knowledgeable, experienced and qualified professionals. Do not waste their time by:
Repeating pages of textbook material
Honours students are expected to compete with ALL other post graduates in the “real” world or work place (i.e. masters’ graduates, doctorates etc.). Do not assume that other post graduates have sympathy or care that you may not be a PhD holder and that they should expect you to be a “non-competitor”.
Undergraduates (more so for sophomore students) are expected to show a concerted effort toward building a convincing presentation based on facts and material that they have been taught in class. Additional material is always beneficial if it provides further insight, validation etc. and strengthens the presentation in achieving its objectives.
We, ____________________________ and ____________________________, the undersigned, hereby declare that the work contained in this assignment is our own original work.
Furthermore, we declare that:
We have not allowed, and will not allow, anyone to use our work (in paper, graphics, electronic, verbal or any other format) with the intention of passing it off as his/her/their own work.
We know that a mark of zero may be awarded to assignments with plagiarism and also that no opportunity be given to submit an improved assignment.
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Plagiarism is to use another's work (even if it is summarised, translated or rephrased) and pretend that it is one's own.
Each contribution to and quotation (e.g. "cut and paste") in this assignment from the work(s) of other people has been explicitly attributed, and has been cited and referenced. In addition to being explicitly attributed, all quotations are enclosed in inverted commas, and long quotations are additionally in indented paragraphs.
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