Four Finance Questions Set

1. Go to the Federal Reserve Board’s website at www.federalreserve.gov and find the most recent distribution of life insurance industry assets for Table 6–2 . Click on “Economic Research and Data.” Click on “Flow of Fund Accounts of the United States.” Click on the most recent date. Click on “Level tables.” This will bring the file (Table L.115) onto your computer that contains the relevant data. How have the values of government securities, corporate securities, mortgages, and policy loans changed since 2012?

2. Go to the Insurance Information Institute’s website at www.iii.org and use the following steps to find the most recent data on the largest life insurance companies by total revenue. Click on “Facts & Statistics.” Click on “Life Insurance.” This will bring the file onto your computer that contains the relevant data.
What are total revenues and assets of the top 10 life insurance companies?

3. Go to the Fidelity Investments website and look up the annual 1-, 5-, and 10-year returns on Fidelity Select Biotechnology Fund using the following steps. The website is www.fidelity.com . Click on  Investment Products.” Click on “Mutual Funds.” Click on “Fidelity Funds.” Click on “Browse all
Fidelity Funds.” Click on “S.” Click on “Select Biotechnology Portfolio.” This will bring the file onto your co??uter that contains the relevant data.

4. Go to the Investment Company Institute website and look up the most recent data on the asset values and number of short-term and long-term mutual funds using the following steps. The website is www.ici.org . Click on “Publications.” Click on “Fact Books.” Click on the most recent year for “XXXX
Investment Company Fact Book.” Go to “Data Tables.” This section contains the relevant data. The data on asset values and number of mutual funds are along the first few pages. How have these values increased since those for 2012 reported in Table 5–1 ?