Discussion Question 7 – CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO 3, CLO 4, CLO 5, CLO 6   Please answer each of the following questions in detail and provide in-text citations in support of your argument with at least 5 peer reviewed articles as references

Discussion Question 7 – CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO 3, CLO 4, CLO 5, CLO 6

Please answer each of the following questions in detail and provide in-text citations in support of your argument with at least 5 peer reviewed articles as references . Include examples whenever applicable. Make sure to provide examples for each of the questions below.

1. Explain the criteria for assessing performance of a security, namely, expected rate of return, standard deviation of rate of return, and coefficient of variation (CV). Explain how by forming a portfolio an instrument can be generated that has properties better than each of its constituents in terms of the standard deviation of rate of return and CV.

1. Please, consider the information you obtained in answering part 1 of the PA 2 in week 6 again . Suppose that the corporation is offered an investment which has the following cash flows. Please justify if the project is feasiblebased on WACC that you calculated in your PA 2.

Table 2

Cash flows for the proposed project In million dollars