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1
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What does interest rates measure?

A

Time value of money

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2
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What is the equilibrium rate of interest rates?

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Required rate of return

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3
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What does interest rate represents?

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Opportunity cost of current consumption

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4
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What is real risk free interest rate?

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Theoretical term with no inflation and zero probability of default

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What is time preference?

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Degree to which current consumption is preferred to euqal future consumption

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6
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T-bills are example of which interest rate?

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Nominal risk free rates

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7
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Is inflation premium included in t-bills?

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Yes

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What is the formula for real risk-free interest rate?

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=nominal rate-inflation rate

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9
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What are the types of securities risks?

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Inflation, default, liquidity, maturity

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What is default risk?

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Risk that borrower will fail to make payments

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What is liquidity risk?

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Risks of receiving less than fair value if sold quickly for liquidity

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12
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What is maturity risk?

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Risk that long-term maturity risks possesses as prices are more volatile

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13
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What is holding period return (HPR)

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% increase in the investment value over time

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14
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HPR formula

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HPR=(end period value-beg.period value+Dividends)/beg.value-1

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15
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HPR formula over multiple periods

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HPR=(1+HPR1)(1+HPR2)…-1

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16
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What is arithmetic mean return?

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Simple mean average

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17
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What is geometric mean return?

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compound rate -> sqrt(n)(1+R1)(1+R2)…-1

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18
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Which is bigger - geometric or arithmetic?

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Arithmetic

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19
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What is harmonic mean?

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N/sum(1/X)

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20
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Relationship between 3 means

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arithmetic*harmonic =geometric^2

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21
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What is IRR?

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Rate of return for which NPV=0

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22
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Which content is money-weighted applies?

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IRR

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23
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What is money-weighted rate of return?

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IRR of portfolio taking into account all inflows and outflows.

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24
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What is time-weighted rate of return?

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Compound growth, rate of which $1 compounds over time.

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25
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If manager can control inflows and outflows which return to use?

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Money-weighted rate of return

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26
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Annualized return formula

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(1+HPR)^(365/days)-1

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27
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What happens to PV and FV with more frequent compounding?

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FV goes up, PV goes down

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28
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PV of annualized return formula

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FV*(1+(r/m)^-mN, where N is number of years and m is number of periods within the year

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29
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Continuesly compounding return formula

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ln(1+HPR)=ln(ending value/beg.value)

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30
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What is gross return?

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Total return of a portfolio before deducting management and admin fees

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31
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What is net returns?

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Total portfolio return after taxes have been deducted

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32
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What is pre-tax nominal return?

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Total portfolio return before paying taxes

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33
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What is after-tax nominal return?

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Total portfolio return after tax liability.

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34
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What is real return?

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Nominal return adjusted for inflation

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35
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Real returns formula

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(1+real returns)=(1+nominal risk-free rate)(1+risk premium)/(1+inflation premium)

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36
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What is leveraged returns?

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Return that is a multiple of a return on the underlying asset

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37
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Leveraged return formula

A

(r(V0+Vb)-rbVb)/Vo

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38
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FV formula (compounding)

A

PVe^(r*t)

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39
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PV formula (compounding)

A

FVe^(-r*t)

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40
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Zero coupon bonds pays..

A

less than face value to buy the investment and receives the face value at maturity

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41
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On what the price investor pays for the investment depends on?

A

YTM and time until maturity

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42
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Zero coupon is bond is prices at

A

premium

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42
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Fixed coupon bond

A

investor receives a cash interest payment (coupon)

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42
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Perpetuity

A

has no maturity date

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42
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PV(perpetuity) formula

A

PV=payment/r

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42
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Example of amortized bond

A

annuity

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42
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Amortized bond

A

Similar to fixed coupon bond, but each payment includes some portion of its principle.

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42
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Preffered stock

A

Stock that pays dividend as a % of its par value

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43
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Annuity payment formula

A

r*PV/(1-(1+r)^-t)

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44
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What is discount rate of preffered stock?

A

Required rate of return

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45
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Preffered stock value formula

A

Dp/kp

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46
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Common stock

A

residual claim to company’s assets after it satisfies all other claims, dividends based on management decision

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47
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Value of the stock based on DDM model

A

D1/(k-g)

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48
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Dividend yield formula

A

D1/V0

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48
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Required rate of return formula

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(D1/V0)+gc

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49
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Cash flow additivity principle

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PV of any stream of cashflows equals the sum of the PVs of the cash flows

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50
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No arbitrage principle

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Two identical cash flow series will have the same price today

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51
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Forward interest rate

A

Interest rate for a loan to be made at some future date

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52
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2y1y annotation

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1 year loan, 2 years from today

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53
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Forward interest rate formula

A

(1+S3)^3=(1+S1)(A+1y1y)(1+2y1y)

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54
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USD/EUR interpretation

A

EUR base currency, USD price currency

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55
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Forward/spot relationship

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(1+interest rate_price)/(1+interest rate_base)

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56
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What is an option?

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Right, but not the obligation to buy or sell an asset on a future date for a specific price

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57
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When option is in the money and when out of money?

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If its worth it exercise it -> in the money, if it’s worth to leave it expire -> out of money

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58
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What is measures of central tendency

A

center or average of a dataset (mean, median, mode)

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59
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What is median?

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Middle point, not affected by outliers

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60
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What is mode?

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Most frequent value

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61
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What is trimmed mean?

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A mean to deal with outliers, excluding point above or below certain percentage

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62
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What is winsorized mean?

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A mean to deal with outliers, where values are substituted based on percentiles, with the percentiles values.

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63
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What is quantile?

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Value at or below stated proportion of a dataset

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64
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What is quartile?

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1/4

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65
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What is quintile?

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1/5

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66
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What is decile?

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1/10

67
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What is percentile?

A

1/100

68
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What is interquartile range?

A

3rd quartile - 1st quartile

69
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What is dispersion?

A

Variability around the central tendency

70
Q

What does dispersion measure in finance?

A

Risk

71
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What does central tendency measure in finance?

A

Reward

72
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What is range and how it is calculated?

A

Max value-min value

73
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What is mean absolute deviation (MAD)?

A

Average of the absolute values of the deviation of individual observations from arithmetic mean

74
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MAD formula

A

sumIXi-XI/n

75
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Sample variance formula

A

sum(Xi-X)^2/(n-1)

76
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Sample standard deviation formula

A

sqrt(sample variance)

77
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What is relative dispersion?

A

Amount of variability in a distribution around a reference point or benchmark

78
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Coefficient of variation formula

A

CV=Sx/X(mean)

79
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Target downside deviation formula

A

sqrt((Xi-B)^2/(n-1))

80
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What is skeweness?

A

how symmetrical the distribution is

81
Q

Positive skew (outliers vs mean)

A

Outliers>mean

82
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Negative skew (outliers vs mean)

A

Outliers<mean

83
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Symmetrical skew (MMM)

A

mean=median=mode

84
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Positive skew (MMM)

A

mean>median>mode

85
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Negative skew (MMM)

A

mode>median>mean

86
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What is kurtosis?

A

Measure of how peaked the distribution is

87
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What kurtosis are there?

A

Leptokurtic, playtikurtic, mesokurtic

88
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What covariance measures?

A

How two variables move together around their means

89
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What does correlation measures?

A

Strenght of linear relationship between two variables

90
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Correlation formula

A

COV(x,y)/sdx*sdy

91
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What is spurious correlation?

A

Result of chance or present due to changes in both variables as a result cause by a third variable

92
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What is expected value?

A

Weighted average of the possible outcomes for the variable

93
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What is Bayers theorem?

A

Update set given set of information based on arrival of new information

94
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Expected return of a portfolio formula

A

Sum of w1*E(R1)

95
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Sample covariance formula

A

sum of (Ri-Rmean)*(R2-R2mean)/(n-1)

96
Q

How many unique covariance terms there are?

A

n(n-1)/2

97
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Portfolio covariance formula

A

w^2_avariance^2_a+w^2_bvariance^2_b+2w_aw_bCov(a,b)

98
Q

What is shortfall risk?

A

Probability that a return will fall below a particular threshold

99
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What is Ray’s safety first criterion?

A

Optimal portfolio will minimize the probability that the return of the portfolio falls below some acceptable minimal level

100
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Safety-first ratio formula

A

E(Rp)-Rl/s.d.(p)

101
Q

Lognormal asset prices formula

A

P0e^rt

102
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What is CFA assumption about returns?

A

They are independently and identically dsiributed

103
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What does it mean for returns to be independently distributed?

A

Past returns cannot be used to model future

104
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What does it mean for returns to be identically distributed?

A

Mean and variance does not change over time

105
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What is monte carlo simulation?

A

Repeated generation of one or more risk factors that affect securities values to generate a distribution of those values

106
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What is resampling?

A

Generation of data inputs to use in simulation

107
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What is bootstrap resampling?

A

Drawing repeated samples of sizen, replacing so they could be redrawn.

108
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What is probability sampling?

A

Selection of sample when we know probability of each sample member

109
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What is random sampling?

A

Each is assumed to have the same probability of being selected

110
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What is systematic sample?

A

Selecting every nth member

111
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What is stratified random sampling?

A

Seperating population into smaller groups and using whole group as a sample

112
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What is cluster sampling?

A

Seperating population into smaller groups and mixing members from each group as a sample

113
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What is convenience sampling?

A

Selecting sample based on ease

114
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What is judgemental sampling?

A

Sample selected by researchers based on his judgement

115
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What is central limit theory?

A

As sample size increases, it approches normal distribution

116
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What is considered as large sample?

A

N=>30

117
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Standard error of a sample formula

A

s.d./sqrt(n)

118
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What is jackknife resampling?

A

Calculating sample means with one observation removed

119
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What is bootstrap resampling?

A

Redraw repeated samples a lot.

120
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What is hypothesis?

A

Statement about testing the theory

121
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What is null hypothesis?

A

Hypothesis that a researcher wants to reject

122
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What is alternative hypothesis?

A

What is concluded when there is sufficient evidence to reject H0

123
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What is type I error?

A

H0 is true, but we rejected it

124
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What is type II error?

A

H0 is false, but we failed to reject it.

125
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What is significance level?

A

Probability of making type I error

126
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What is power of a test?

A

Making a right decision and rejecting H0 when it is false

127
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What is relationship between significance level and type II error?

A

Inverse

128
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What is p-value?

A

Probability obtaining test statistic that would lead to a rejection of H0.

129
Q

Which test is used for value of population mean?

A

T-test or z-test

130
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Which test is used for equality of two population means?

A

T-test

131
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Which test is used for value of population variance?

A

Chi-squared

132
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Which test is used for equality of two population variance?

A

F-test

133
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What is paired comparison test?

A

Two samples depend on some other factor.

134
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What is parametric test?

A

Test with assumptions regarding distribution of the population

135
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What is non parametric tests?

A

Test when particular population parameters are not considered

136
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What is Pearson’s correlation test?

A

It is used to assess the strenght of the relationship between two variables

137
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What is formula for Pearson’s and Spearman’s test statistic?

A

r*sqrt(n-2)/sqrt(1-r^2)

138
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What is Spearman rank correlation test?

A

A test to determine whether two sets of data are correlated(strenght and direction)

139
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What is contingency or two-way table?

A

It is number of observations from a sample that have a combination of two characteristics.

140
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What is simple linear regression?

A

A regression line that explains variation in dependent variable in terms of variability in the independent variable

141
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What is simple regression line formula?

A

Y=b0+b1X+e

142
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What is sum of squared error?

A

It is sum of sqaured vertical differences between estimated and actual values

143
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What is formula of the slope coefficient?

A

COV(x,y)/variance(x)

144
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What is homoskedasticity?

A

It says that variance of the residual term is constant

145
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What are assumptions of OLS?

A
  1. Independent and dependent variables have linear relationship
  2. Homoskedasticity
  3. Residula term is normally and independently distributed.
146
Q

What is analysis of variance (ANOVA?

A

It analyses total variability of the dependent variable

147
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What is total of sum squared (SST)?

A

Total variation of the dependent variable (actual-mean)

148
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What is sum of square regression (SSR)?

A

Measures variation explained by the independent variable (predicted-mean)

149
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What is sum of squared error (SSE)?

A

It measures unexplained variation (actual- predicted)

150
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Mean squared error formula

A

SSE/(n-2)

151
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What is coefficient of determination (R^2)?

A

% of variation in the dependent variable explained by the independent variable

152
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What is R^2 formula?

A

SSR/SST

153
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What does F-test measures?

A

How well the set of independent variables explains variation

154
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What is formula for F?

A

MSR/MSE=SSR/k/(SSE/n-k-1)

155
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What does T-test measure?

A

Whether true slope coefficient is equal to hypothesized value.

156
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What is t-test statistic value?

A

Tb1=b1hat-b1/Sb1hat

157
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What are predicted values?

A

Dependent variables based on linear regression

158
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What is confidence level?

A

Values within true statistic should lie

159
Q

What is formula of confidence level?

A

Y+-(tc*SE)

160
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How to interpret log and linear results?

A

Linear-> absolute change, log -> relative change

161
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What is fintech?

A

Development in the technology that can be applied to financial services industry

162
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What is big data?

A

All potential useful information that is generated in the economy

163
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What are characteristics of big data?

A

Volume, velocity, variety

164
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What does volume represent?

A

Orders of magnitude

165
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What does velocity represent?

A

How quickly data is communicated

166
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What does variety represent?

A

Degree of structure

167
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What does AI aim for?

A

Stimulate human cognition

168
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What does machine learning learn?

A

Associations between inputs and outputs

169
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What is supervised learning?

A

When inputs and outputs are labelled

170
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What is unsupervised learning?

A

When machine learns how to structure the data

171
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What is deep learning?

A

It uses layers of network to identify patterns

172
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What is algorithmic trading?

A

Securities trading based on set of rules

173
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What is high frequency trading?

A

It takes advantage of intraday securities mispricings.

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