What are the alternative maturity strategies for managing Investment Portfolios?

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1. What are the alternative maturity strategies for managing Investment Portfolios?

2. What are the key banking services under lifeline banking for low-income individuals?

3. Explain non-deposit sources of funds.  

4. Suppose a banking company decides to add insurance services to its existing products menu It expects to earn a 15 percent average return from sales of its traditional banking products and a 25 percent return from selling or underwriting insurance services. These two service lines are equally risky in the variance of their cash flows (with a standard deviation of about 5 percent each). The banking firm expects to receive 40 percent of its revenues from insurance sales and 60 percent from sales of traditional banking products. Calculate the bank’s overall return from sales of traditional and non-traditional products in this case.

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5. Why is stock valuation more difficult than bond valuation?

6. Explain why ethics is an appropriate topic in the study of corporate finance.

7. Identify the basic forms of business organization in the Saudi Arabia and their respective strengths and weaknesses.

8. If a Volkswagen Passat costs ,350 in Baltimore and €21,675 in Frankfurt, what is the implied exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the euro?