An insurance company’s projected loss

6.An insurance company’s projected loss ratio is 77.5 percent, and its loss adjustment expense ratio is 12.9 percent. It estimates that commission payments and dividends to policyholders will add another 16 percent. What is the minimum yield on investments required in order to maintain a positive operating ratio? (LG 15-6)7.An insurance company collected $3.6 million in premiums and disbursed $1.96 million in losses. Loss adjustment expenses amounted to 6.6 percent and dividends paid to policyholders totaled 1.2 percent. The total income generated from their investments was $170,000 after all expenses were paid. What is the net profitability in dollars? (LG 15-6)20.An investor notices that an ounce of gold is priced at $1,318 in London and $1,325 in New York. What action could the investor take to try to profit from the price discrepancy? Which of the six trading activities would this be? What might be some impediments to the success of the transaction? (LG 16-2)2.An investment bank pays $23.50 per share for 3,000,000 shares of the KDO company. It then sells these shares to the public for $25. How much money does KDO receive? What is the investment banker’s profit? What is the stock price of KDO? (LG 16-2)2.Open-end Fund A has 165 shares of ATT valued at $25 each and 50 shares of Toro valued at $45 each. Closed-end Fund B has 75 shares of ATT and 100 shares of Toro. Both funds have 1,000 shares outstanding. (LG 17-4)a. What is the NAV of each fund using these prices?b. Assume that another 165 shares of ATT valued at $25 are added to Fund A. The funds needed to buy the new shares are obtained by selling 647 more shares in Fund A. What is the effect on Fund A’s NAV if the prices remain unchanged?c. If the price of ATT stock increases to $26.25 and the price of Toro stock declines to $43.375, how does that impact the NAV of both funds? Assume that Fund A has only 100 shares of ATT.5.An employer uses a final pay formula to determine retirement payouts to its employees. The annual payout is 3 percent of the average salary over the employees’ last three years of service times the total years employed. Calculate the annual benefit under the following scenarios. (LG 18-2) YEARS WORKED AVG. SALARY DURING LAST 3 YEARS OF SVC17 $40,00020 $47,000 22 $50,000