Class #03:  Thursday 11-Nov-2010 and Saturday 13-Nov-2010

Each group MUST have a clean USB key with no files on it
other than their model and the files posted on this page.

L1: please email assignment to Lei Sun by Thurs at 7:00pm
L2: please email assignment to Lei Sun by Sat at 9:00am
  • Style analysis questions
  • Data for students
  • Fama-French and Rf data for students

Please bring the following file to class:
  • HF portfolio data

Clarifications, help, and hints:
  • Example making variable dates with EOMONTH and VLOOKUP
  • Example of with graph tricks

Related articles and material
  • Berkshire Hathaway style analysis

Class notes from the 1st half of class
  • Printed 1 slide per page
  • Printed 6 slides per page

Class notes from the 2nd half of class
  • Printed 1 slide per page
  • Printed 6 slides per page

What should our model include?
  • At an absolute minimum, your model should do a Sharpe (1992) style analysis
    and output results in a user-friendly format.
  • Your model can also provide the user with some overview statistics about the
    fund such as average monthly return, stdev, return(APR), etc.  If you would
    like to calculate more statistics such as a Sharpe Ratio, I've attached/posted
    some data to help.  Your model can draw graphs, etc.

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