A company in Hong Kong, where there is no taxes on dividends and capital gains, is considering either paying a special dividend or repurchasing its own shares. Shareholders of the company would have

What does the term "1/10, net 45" mean?

County Farm Insurance Co. manages a portfolio of corporate bonds for the purpose of producing cash flows sufficient to meet liabilities originating from its sale of life insurance policies. Credit rating and the size and timing of coupon and principal payment have been the criteria used to select bonds for the portfolio. An unexpected decrease in the level of market yields may:
I). increase the market value of bonds in the portfolio
II). reduce income realized from reinvestment of coupons
III). cause callable bonds to be called by issuers

Consider the following information about a fund. The fund has been in existence for 3 years. Over this period it has achieved a mean monthly return of 3% with a sample standard deviation of monthly returns of 5%. It was expected to earn a 2.5% mean monthly return over the 3-year period.
You want to test a claim that the investment disciplines of the fund results in a standard deviation of monthly returns of less than 6%.
The test statistic for conducting this hypothesis test is:

A defined benefit pension plan: