Practice Quizzes Flashcards

1
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Form of technical analysis that utilizes advances and breadth of the market as an indicator

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Price indicator

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2
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Intrinsic value of common stock (per fundamental analysis)

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The discount value of future stream of cash flow (dividends)

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3
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Specific companies are researched and chosen as investments based on their outstanding investment possibilities by analyst who practice

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Bottom up analysis

Next big undiscovered stock, start with a company, then industry, and finally economics…. top down is opposite

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4
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Bottom up equity managers included

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Value managers and technicians

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5
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Top down equity managers include

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Group rotation managers

Market timers

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6
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Dividend Discount model also known as

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Intrinsic value

Constant growth dividend model

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7
Q

High risk bonds usually issued by financially troubled firms

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Income bonds

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8
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Unsecured debt

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Debentures

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9
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Lower quality than investment grade and cost the issuer more in interest payments

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High yield bonds

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10
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Financing equipment that will be bond collateral

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Equipment trust certificates

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11
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OID- Original Issue Discount bond

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Basis increases at ser rate each year

Difference btw maturoty value and original issue discount price is OID

Bonds earnings treated as exempt interest income

Bond issued at discount to par

Ex. Zero coupon

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12
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Undiversifiable, market risk, economy based risk, beta

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Systematic risk

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13
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Diversifiable, unique risk, company specific

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Unsystematic risk

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14
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Systematic risk

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PRIME
Purchasing power
Reinvestment 
Interest rate
Market
Exchange rate
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15
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Unsystematic risk

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ABCDEFG
Accounting 
Business
Country
Default
Executive 
Financial
Government/regulatory
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16
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Method of portfolio evaluation that allows the comparison of a portfolio managers performance to the over all market using just one calculation?

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The Jensen model

17
Q

In computing performance, Sharpe uses

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Standard deviation

S—S

18
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In computing performance Treynor uses

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Beta

19
Q

Determine total risk of an undiversified portfolio

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Standard Deviation

68, 95, 99%
+/- 1,2,3 standard deviations away from average

Orange Sx,Sy (8) on calculator

20
Q

Which investment has more relative risk when investments have different average returns.

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Coefficient of Variation

CV=standard Deviation ÷ average return

21
Q

How do mutual funds report returns?

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Time weighted

22
Q

Stocks that have both negative and positive returns over a period should use what method to determine true return?

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Geometric average

23
Q

Private placements

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Stock sale to public pension fund

Entire issue to single investor

Single block to publicly traded mutual fund

24
Q

Legislation of securities in secondary market, created SEC

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Security exchange act of 1934

People act

25
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Governs the registration requirements of all newly issued, publicly offered securities (IPO)

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Security act of 1933

Paper Act

26
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Authorized SEC to regulate investment companies

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Investment act of 1940

27
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Protects investor losses due to broker firm failures, not from incompetence/bad investment decisions, losses limited to $500k, including $250k cash

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Securities investors protection act of 1970

28
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Conversion Value of Convertable Bond

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CV= PAR/Conversion Price * Price if common

Cv=par/cp *p

CP= par/shares

Conversion ratio of #of shares= 1000/cp

29
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The rate of return determined by the CAPM

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A rate of return used in Jensens alpha

Security line equation

30
Q

Treynor

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Rp-Rf/Beta

Beta
Well diversified portfolio
Market risk
The higher the better

31
Q

Sharpe

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Rp-Rf/standard Deviation

Standard Deviation
Diversification unknown (default if not provided)
Total risk

32
Q

Difference between a funds realized return and risk adjusted expected return

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Jensen Alpha

33
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Jensens Alpha

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Rp-[Rf+(Rm-Rf)Beta]
(CAPM/Expectex return)

Beta
Portfolio managers performance
Actual return less expected return (CAPM)

34
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The duration of a bond as a function of its

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Current price
time to maturity
yield to maturity
coupon rate