Book 3 Pages 52-100 Flashcards
uncertainty of an investment’s realized (actual) rate of return will not equal its expected or forecasted rate of return
investment risk
risk measured by standard deviation
total risk
true or false?
total risk includes both systematic risk and unsystematic risk
true
true or false?
total risk does not include diversifiable risk
false
as more securities are added to the portfolio the level of unsystematic risk ____
decreases
purchasing power risk is a ____ risk
systematic
reinvestment rate risk is a ____ risk
systematic
financial risk is a ____ risk
unsystematic
market risk is a ____ risk
systematic
business risk is a ____ risk
unsystematic
political risk is a ____ risk
unsystematic
tax risk is a ____ risk
unsystematic
interest rate risk is a ____ risk
systematic
exchange rate risk is a ___ risk
systematic
default risk is a ___ risk
unsystematic
investment manager risk is a ____ risk
unsystematic
liquidity risk is a ____ risk
unsystematic
risk that are inherited by investing in the market
systematic risks
the risk the inflation will erode the real value of an investor’s assets
purchasing power risk
the risk that proceeds available for reinvestment must be reinvested at a lower rate of return than that of the investment vehicle that generated the proceeds
reinvestment rate risk
investments with longer terms to maturity have ____ reinvestment rate risk
greater
are zero coupon bonds subject to reinvestment rate risk?
no
are non-dividend paying stocks subject to reinvestment rate risk?
no
the risk that changes in interest rates will affect the value of a security
interest rate risk
as interest rates rise the value of a bond will ___
decrease
true or false?
rising interest rates usually have a positive effect on stocks
false
the risk that a change in the relationship between the value of the dollar and the value of the foreign currency during the period of investment will negatively affect the investor’s return
exchange rate risk
calculate an investors gain in the following scenario:
John invests $1 million in ABC corp which is based in Mexico. The current exchange rate for pesos to dollars is 10 to 1. Jon sells his investment for 15 million pesos but the exchange rate has chanaged to 12 to 1.
John will get 15 million / 12 = $1,250,000 which is a $250,000 gain or 25% gain
what does PRIME stand for in regards to systematic risk?
Purchasing power risk Reinvestment rate risk interest rate risk market risk exchange rate risk
risk that is unique to a single security, business, industry, or country
unsystematic risk
risk associated with the uncertainty of operating income
business risk
the risk that a firm’s financial structure will negatively affect the value of an equity investment
financial risk
true or false?
if two firms have the same net income but one uses more debt than the other, the debt firm will have a higher return on equity
true
the risk that a borrower will be unable to service its debt obligations
default risk
true or false?
default risk is also known as credit risk
true
true or false?
obligations of the US government are considered default risk free
true
the risk that the political or economic climate of a country will negatively affect an investment
political risk
the risk associated with the skills or philosophy of an individual manager of an investment fund or account
investment manager risk
the ability to find a ready market where the investor may sell the investment
marketability
the ability to sell an investment quickly and at a competitive price, with no loss of principal and little price concession
liquidity
real estate is ____ but usually not ____
marketable ; liquid
true or false?
treasury bills are not liquid but they are marketable
false, they are both liquid and marketable
money market accounts are liquid but not ___
marketable
true or false?
cash is the most liquid and marketable asset
true
the risk that taxation of investment gains or losses will negatively affect investment return
tax risk
the sum of observations divided by the number of observations
mean
midpoint of the values after they have been ordered from smallest to largest
median
the observation that appears with the greatest frequency
mode
if the bell curve is skewed to the right (longer right tail) then this is called ______ skewness
positive
which of the three averages (mean, median or mode) is greatest when there is positive skewness?
mean
which of the three averages (mean, median, or mode) is greatest when there is negative skewness?
mode
if the bell curve is skewed to the left (longer left tail) then this is called ____ skewness
negative
measures if a distribution is more or less peaked than a normal distribution
Kurtosis
when a distribution is more peaked than a normal distribution
leptokurtic
when a distribution is less peaked than a normal distribution
playkurtic
when more distributions are cluttered around the mean
leptokurtic
true or false?
investors who want to minimize volatility in their portfolios would prefer leptokurtic distributions
true
when greater than 50% chance that an observation selected at random will fall on the left side of the mean
lognormal probability distribution
lognormal distribution is skewed to the _____
right
used to evaluate the risk associated with a given investment and assesses the impact of different variables on an investment’s returns
sensitivity analysis
what two calculations do investors perform during sensitivity analysis?
NPV and IRR
diversification and unsystematic risk have a ____ relationship
inverse (as diversification increases, unsystematic risk decreases