Atlantis University Fin300 Week 2-Assignment

Week 2: Assignment

1. Corporate Governance and Ethics

Businesses and markets require trust to operate efficiently. Without trust, additional laws and regulations are required and all laws and regulations are costly. For a lucid article on ethics and the financial crisis see the article called "Three Ethical Dimensions of the Financial Crisis".

Use your text book and information from the aforementioned article to discuss this question:

Is more regulation the answer to corporate governance and ethics failures? Why or why not?

2. Derivative Securities

Discuss options and future contracts. How are they similar? What are the differences?

3. Mutual Funds

Describe the similarities and differences between “open-end” and “closed-end” mutual funds.

Instructions

Present assignment in word document (max 10 pages) according to APA manual guidelines (Template, Summary, Body of the document, conclusions and bibliographic references sheet).

Please number each of your answers. This is very important so that I understand which questions you are responding to.