Finance

Question 1

What is the definition of Financial Risk?

Answer 1

The variation or standard deviation of the returns

Question 2

What does standard deviation mean?

Answer 2

two thirds of the monthly returns tend to fall in one standard deviation of the average return and 95% fall within two standard deviations

Question 3

what is DeFi?

Answer 3

Decentralized Finance

Question 4

What are block chains?

Answer 4

databases distributed over many computers and kept secure by cryptography

Question 5

Does CA tax Social security income?

Answer 5

No

Question 6

How does CA tax capital gains?

Answer 6

All capital gains are taxed as ordinary income. for me my marginal rate is 9.3%.

Question 7

what is tax for me on capital gains?

Answer 7

federal 15% + state 9.3% = 24.3%

Question 8

For 2021 Income Taxes, what is the standard deduction if you are married filing jointly and over 65?

Answer 8

$25,100 + $2,700 = $27,800

Question 9

For 2021 Income Taxes, how much is allowed for charitable deductions above the standard deduction?

Answer 9

$600

Question 10

using Schwab how do you find percentage of Equities and bonds?

Answer 10

Click on portfolio performance, then click on Asset Class performance

Question 11

How do you make changes in the Schwab Intelligent portfolio account for equity / fixed income ratio?

Answer 11

go to Schwab account, click on accounts, click on summary, click on Schwab intelligent portfolio to the right of the account number

slide marker to right for more risk and to left for less risk. click on update portfolio.

Question 12

in Schwab how do you transfer cash and / or positions from one Schwab account to another Schwab account?

Answer 12

log on to Schwab, click on Accounts, at the bottom click on Transfers and Payments, click on online transfers, click on positions

Question 13

In Schwab, how do you transfer cash and positions from another Brokerage such as Fidelity to one of your Schwab accounts?

Answer 13

Log into Schwab, click on Accounts, click on Transfer and Payments at the bottom. Click on Transfer an account. Type name of brokerage i.e. Fidelity.

Question 14

Using Schwab, how can you find fund allocation for an ETF?

Answer 14

click on Fund documents, annual report; find ‘ Fund Allocation’

Question 15

in Schwab how do select which lots of stocks to sell?

Answer 15

on the sell screen click on cost basis method and select either FIFO, LIFO, high cost, low cost, specified lots or tax lot optimizer

Question 16

What are the advantages of managing your investments as opposed to have someone else manage it

Answer 16

you don’t have to ay a fee.

you can sell investments when you want to i.e. incur capital gains when you want to pay the tax.

you are aware of when you incur capital gains tax because you did it.

it is easier to do asset allocation because you are in charge of your entire portfolio.

Question 17

in Schwab how can you find capital gains and losses for an account?

Answer 17

Account summary

click on account

click on market value (upper left)

view realized gain/loss - year to date

search - shows long term and short term gain and loss

Question 18

When doing tax loss harvesting, what are the considerations?

Answer 18

do you have losses to apply to the gains

will sales of investments hurt your asset allocation

Question 19

how is SEC yield calculated?

Answer 19

A calculation based on a 30-day period ending on the last of the previous month. It is computed by dividing the net investment income per share earned during the period by the maximum offering price per share on the last day of the period.

Question 20

what is difference between distribution yield and SEC yield?

Answer 20

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