Investment Planning Flashcards
repurchase agreement.
A long-term corporate debt obligation with a claim against securities rather than against physical assets.
A yield curve can be described as a curve that
Shows the term structure of interest rates on government debt.
The yield curve demonstrates graphically the relationship between long-term and short-term government debt
greatest relative amount of price volatility if interest rates were to change quickly?
The smaller the coupon, the greater the volatility. Because the zero-coupon bond pays no payments, it is the smallest, thus the most volatile.
The form of technical analysis that utilizes Advances and Declines (also known as Breadth of the Market) as an indicator is known as:
Price Indicator.
Advances and declines deal with price.
number of shares traded.
Volume Indicator.
deal with directions of the market and related averages
Market indicators
do not use price but rather movements.
Charts are used as indicators and in some instances, do not use price but rather movements.
Eddie Bauer bought a tax-exempt Original Issue Discount (OID) bond in November of 1998. Which of the following statements is/are true?
The bond basis increases at a set rate each year.
The difference between maturity value and the original issue discount price is known as the OID.
The bond’s earnings are treated as exempt interest income.
The bond was issued at a discount to its par value.
Bottom-up equity managers include:
Value managers.
Technicians.
top down” style managers.
Group rotation managers.
Market timers
The entity that establishes the initial margin requirement is the:
The Federal Reserve sets margin requirements for all security transactions.
An investor who searches for stocks selling at a low price to earnings (P/E) ratio believes that
Anomalies to the Efficient Market Hypothesis exist.
The strong form of the Efficient Market Hypothesis is
often thought to be invalid because it presumes markets are completely efficient and historical, public and private information will not help you achieve above average market returns.
strong form states that stock prices reflect all information including insider information.
The semi-strong form of the Efficient Market Hypothesis is
the semi-strong theory rejects fundamental analysis (and technical analysis).
“Stock prices adjust rapidly to the release of all new public information.
All of the following are calculated as a weighted average except?
A portfolio standard deviation
B portfolio beta
C portfolio expected return
D portfolio duration
The correct answer is A.
Portfolio Standard Deviation cannot accurately be reflected in a weighted average. Standard Deviation takes into account all risk, which includes asset movement (COV) within the portfolio. A weighted average would not take into account the assets movement in relation to each other.
time value of money concepts
An increase in interest rates increases the present value, but not the future value.
An increase in compounding rates will increase the future value, which is the same result as if the interest rate was increased.
The effective annual rate will be higher than the nominal rate whenever the frequency is less than one year (quarterly, monthly, etc.).
The best way to compare investment loan options with different frequencies is to convert all nominal rates to effective annual rates.
Laura has been thinking about her need for life insurance. If she were to die today, she would want to leave her husband Scott with enough to pay off their $440,527 mortgage. Additionally, she would like to establish a scholarship that provides $8,000 annually in today’s dollars to her current University. Assume the scholarship would grow at 6% annually and education costs inflation is 5% on an annual basis. Under the capital needs analysis approach, approximately how much life insurance does Laura need to purchase?
$1,281,000.
Under the capital needs analysis approach, the earnings from the capital balance should be sufficient to provide cash needed, without liquidating the capital. The annual cash need is $8,000 in today’s dollars.
The amount of capital needed under the capital needs analysis approach can be determined using the following formula:
Capital needed = Annual Income Need / Interest Rate
However, the interest rate must be adjusted for inflation, using the following formula:
Inflation Adjusted interest rate = [(1 + 6%) / (1 + 5%)] - 1
Inflation Adjusted interest rate = .009523
Capital needed = $8,000 / .009523 Capital needed = $840,071
Laura also wants Scott to be able to pay off the mortgage, which has a current balance of $440,527.
Therefore, the total life insurance need is $1,280,598 ($440,527 + $840,071), or approximately $1,281,000.
guaranteed investment contract (GIC)
Guaranteed investment contracts are similar in nature to money market accounts or CDs. The major risk is purchasing power (inflation) risk.
internal rate of return (IRR)
If NPV is negative, the IRR of the investment is less than the required rate of return. If NPV is zero, the IRR of the investment exactly equals the required rate of return. If NPV is positive, the IRR of the investment is greater than the required rate of return.
U.S. Series EE Savings Bonds
Templeman Intermediate Tax Exempt Fund
Treasury Bills
Interest income from the municipal bond fund is federally tax-exempt.
When the Series EE bond is redeemed, it will not be subject to state income tax.
The Treasury Bills are federally taxed only upon maturity, unless sold prior to maturity
Capital appreciation will be taxable at capital gain when shares of the fund are sold.
The yield to maturity for a bond represents:
A. The coupon payments of the bond divided by the bond’s face value.
B. An index for a bond’s price volatility and a measure that can be used for an immunization strategy.
C. The probability that the bond issue will be called by the issuer.
D. The interest rate that equates a bond’s coupon payments and face value to the current price of the bond.
The correct answer is D.
A is incorrect. The current yield of a bond represents the coupon payments of the bond divided by the bond’s face value.
B is incorrect. The duration of a bond represents an index for a bond’s price volatility and a measure that can be used for an immunization strategy.
C is incorrect. There is no measure that determines the probability of a bond being called by the issuer.
weak form of the efficient market hypothesis.
The weak form of the EMH states that “the current price of a security reflects all historical information available on that security and does not reject fundamental analysis.”
Efficient Market Hypothesis weak form states that prices reflect historical information
Kimberly Thurman is a private investor who researches individual stock purchases thoroughly. She studies company annual reports and 10k reports, computes comparative financial ratios from the reports, and compares company financial information to industry statistics to find undervalued stocks. Kim believes in:
The weak form of the efficient market hypothesis.
Efficient Market Hypothesis EMH
Consistently superior performance is rare.
One cannot consistently earn abnormal returns. Over time, these superior returns will be reversed and overall gain is consistent with the general market.
Sharpe ratio
measures the reward to overall risk (systematic and unsystematic) because it uses standard deviation in the formula.
Richard’s portfolio will include the “doctors only” investment as well as the stock in his personal assets, so there is more than stock market risk. The measure of performance should take into consideration overall risk as does the Sharpe ratio
Treynor ratio and Jensen’s alpha
make use of beta which measures return only in relation to systematic risk
information ratio
used for evaluating a fund manager against a benchmark.