Financial Markets and Institutions
Section A
Select a company from the FTSE 100. This is the company whose fortunes you are going to follow. The activity period will be 12th October 2020 to 11th December 2020.
Required:
a. You are aiming to make a successful investment choice. Select your company based upon ratio analysis. Explain your choice of investment and support your decision with ratio analysis.
b. Choose up to 5 events that affected the company during the activity period. Describe what happened and how it influenced the company’s share price.
c. Compare the share price at the start and end date of the activity period. What happened to the share price and what observations can your draw from this?
1700 words
Section B
Section B
Select one of the financial markets covered in this module that is based in the UK.
How has that market responded to Covid19? What have been the biggest challenges it has faced?
500 words
Section C
Section C
Select one of the financial institutions covered in this module that is based in the UK.
How has that financial institution responded to Covid19? What have been the biggest challenges it has faced?
Section D
Select a dividend valuation model covered in this module. Outline the favourable and unfavourable evidence from recent literature with regards to the reliability of this model.