Exam 1 Review Flashcards
Define
Real Assets
Assets used to produce goods and services.
Financial Assets
Claims on real assets or the income generated by them.
Asset Allocation
- Portfolio choice among broad investment classes.
- Allocation of an investment portfolio across broad asset classes.
Active Management
-Attempts to achieve returns higher than commensurate with risk by forecasting broad markets and/or by identifying mispriced securities.
Passive Management
-Buying and holding a diversified portfolio without attempting to identify mispriced securities.
Arithmetic Return
-The sum of returns in each period divided by the number of periods.
Geometric Return
- The single per-period return that gives the same cumulative performance as the sequence of actual returns.
Dollar Weighted Return
- The internal rate of return on an investment.
Time Weighted Return
(geometric return)
• Not considering the fund flow
• Measuring manager performance
Holding Period Return
- Rate of return over a given investment period.
Scenario Analysis
- Process of devising a list of possible economic scenarios and specifying the likelihood of each one, as well as the HPR that will be realized in each case.
Sources of Risk
- systematic (market risk)
- unsystematic(diversifiable risk)
Capital Allocation Line
- Plot of risk-return combinations available by varying portfolio allocation between a risk-free asset and a risky
Capital Market Line
- The capital allocation line using the market index portfolio as the risky asset.
Security Market Line
- Graphical representation of the expected return–beta relationship of the CAPM.
Mutual Fund Theorem
- States that all investors desire the same portfolio of risky assets and can be satisfied by a single mutual fund composed of that portfolio.
CAPM Model
- A model that relates the required rate of return on a security to its systematic risk as measured by beta.
Beta
- The sensitivity of a security’s returns to the market factor.
Alpha
- A stock’s expected return beyond that induced by the market index; its expected excess return when the market’s excess return is zero.
Multifactor Model
- Models of security returns that respond to several systematic factors.
Forms of Market Efficiency (3)
- Weak
- Semi-strong
- Strong
Supporting Evidences
50/50 winners and losers each year
- 25% chance will win 2 years in a row
- 12.5% chance will win 3 years in a row
Size/Value Stocks
-Two systematic factors the security returns respond to
Momentum
- The tendency of poorly performing stocks and well-performing stocks in one period to continue that abnormal performance in following periods.