Portfolio Management and Investment Risk Flashcards

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1
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Working Capital

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Total Current Assets - Total Current Liabilities = Working Capital

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Current Ratio

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Measure of liquidity

Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities

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3
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Quick Asset (Acid Test) Ratio

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Total Current Assets - Inventory
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Total Current Liabilities

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Debt to Equity Ratio

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Bonds + Preferred Stock
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Common Stock at Par + Capital Surplus + Retained Earnings

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Large Cap Stocks

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Mature companies with market cap above $10 mil and history of consistent dividend payments

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Mid Cap Stocks

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Growth companies with market cap from $2 bil to $10 bil

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Small Cap Stocks

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Newer growth companies with market cap from $300 mil to $2 bil

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Micro Cap Stocks

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Speculative companies with market cap from $50 mil to $300 mil

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Order of payment to creditors and owners when forced to liquidate

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Secured debt
Unsecured Debt
Preferred Stock
Common Stock

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Earnings Per Share

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Net Income - Preferred Dividends
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Number of Outstanding common shares

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11
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Price/Earnings Ratio

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Market Price/Earnings Per share

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12
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Growth Analysis

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High P/E Ratio
High retained earnings
Low dividend payout ratios

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13
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Value Analysis

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Low P/E
History of Profits
High dividend yield
Low price to book ratio

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14
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Top Down Approach

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Analyze economy first, then specific industries

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Bottom Up Approach

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Evaluate company, then determine if company is undervalued relative to its peers

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16
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Modern Portfolio Theory

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Theory that analyzes relationship between risk, correlation, diversification, and returns.

Assumes investors are risk averse

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17
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Expected Return

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Possible return on investment weighted by likelihood that return will occur

Sum of all possible returns multiplied by probability of return

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18
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Standard Deviation

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Measure of risk as evidenced by the variability between returns

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19
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Correlation

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Degree to which different investments move in the same direction

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20
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Monte Carlo Simulation

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Risk analysis simulation that identifies list of economic factors that may affect an investment and assigns each factor a range of values.

21
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Optimal Portfolio according to MPT

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Diversified assets with no correlation

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Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

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Describes relationship between risk and expected returns with focus on two types of risk: Diversifiable and Non-Diversifiable

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Diversifiable Risk

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Business or non-systematic risk specific to a particular security or sector

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Non-Diversifiable Risk

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Systematic or market risk

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Beta

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Measure of volatility

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Risk Free Return

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Rate of return attributed to an investment with zero risk, usually a T Bill

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Risk Premium

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Additional return above risk free return

28
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Alpha

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Risk adjusted return

29
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Sharpe Ratio

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Risk adjusted return measurement

(Ri - Rrf)/Oi

30
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Efficient Market Hypothesis

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If markets are efficient, then prices will reflect all known information

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Weak Form Efficiency

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All past market prices and data are fully reflected in securities prices

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Semistrong Form Efficiency

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Security prices reflect all publicly available information and investors would receive no benefit from using either technical or fundamental analysis

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Strong Form Efficiency

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Price of stock incorporates all current information including both public and private information

34
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Passive Strategies

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Strategic asset allocation

35
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Future Value

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Pn = P0(1+r)^n

36
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Present Value

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P0 = Pn/(1+r)^n

37
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Capital Needs

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A capital goal that needs to be achieved within a specific period

38
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Internal Rate of Return

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Compounded interest rate or yield used to calculate present value, future value, and discounted cash flows

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Dollar Weighted Return

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Solves for rate of return that makes present value equal to present value of future cash flows

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Time Weighted Return

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Compounded growth over period being measured, used to rate performance of money managers

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Annualized Return

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Total return/Periods = Annualized Returns

42
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Inflation Adjusted Return

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Yield - Inflation = Inflation adjusted return

43
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After Tax Yield

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Taxable Interest Rate x (100% - Tax %)

44
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Taxable Equivalent Yield

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Tax Free Interest Rate/(100% - Tax bracket %)

45
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Total Return

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(Ending Value - Beginning Value + Investment Income)/Beginning Value

46
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Market Order

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Buy or sell stock at current market price

47
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Limit Order

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Buy or sell stock at specified price or better

48
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Stop Order

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Buy or sell stock once market price reaches specific price