Various- Revision Flashcards

1
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Why would a fund hold increased levels of cash (5)

Effects of holding too much cash (4)

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  • Inflows into fund
  • Manager unable to make new investments
  • Cover redemptions
  • Just about to purchase /sell property (REIT)
  • Income received

Too much cash:

  • Drag on performance
  • reduces risk/protects ion falling market
  • Dilutes yield
  • Reduce risk of forced sales
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2
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What is a Dilution levy

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  • increase of cost of buying and selling shares as a result of high levels of buying and selling. Protects value of existing investors holdings (only used with single priced funds.
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3
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What fees are included in an OCF figure (6)

What fees not included in OCF (5)

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  • Management / Annual Management charge
  • Adminstration fee /secretarial/director/insurance
  • Marketing
  • Audit/tax compliance fees
  • Registration / Regulatory fees
  • Custody/depositary/trustee fees
  • auditor and legal fees

Not included: (one offs)

  • Transaction fees/initial charge/spread/stamp duty
  • Performance fees
  • One off legal fees
  • Interest/gearing costs
  • Adviser charge
  • platform fee
  • Entry charge
  • broker charge
  • POTM levy
  • SDRT
  • switching charge
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4
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Eight considerations when deciding to invest in ETFs or OEICS

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  • Charges
  • Tracking error / benchmark
  • STandard deviation / risk
  • Dealing frequency
  • Alpha/ stock picking/performance
  • duplication /concentration risk
  • dividends
  • Mandate/style/passive/active
  • counterparty risk
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5
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Value Investor

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  • Invests for long term
  • In undervalued stocks/out of favour
  • prices less than NAV
  • Contrarian
  • Buy and hold /low turnover
  • limited downside
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6
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Six factors to affect price of a share

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  • Investor sentiment
  • Market volatility
  • Takeover
  • unexpected cut in Dividends
  • Change in management
  • Unexpected news
  • analysts
  • Script issues
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7
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When does CGT have to be paid by. On sale of B2L

When does stamp duty become payable

Mortgage Int relief ?

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  • 30 days after completion
  • SDLT - 14 days
  • 20% tax reducer
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8
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Commercial property

  • Lease
  • Maintenance
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  • 5 minimum, maybe 10 years plus ie long tenancy

- Tenant responsible for upkeep etc

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9
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Stamp Duty Reserve tax

What’s exempt

PTM Levy

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  • 0.5% Electronic to nearest penny. Paper to nearest £5
  • Exempt: Gilts, ETF, Unit Trust, OEIC, AIM, Divorce, probate

Panel for takeovers and mergers levy -£10k. £1 flat charge over £10k

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10
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diversification rules retail collectives UCITS/OEIC

- Minimum permissible holdings

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  • 16 Holdings min
  • 4 x 10%
  • 12 x 5%

10% in unlisted securities

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11
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What is capacity for loss

  • Non financial factors that could affect ATR (6)
  • ATR for pension may be higher (5)
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  • ability to withstand and negative investment event without having detrimental effect on standard of living
  • Previous experience
  • Time horizon
  • dependants
  • Objectives/ ethical view
  • Framing
  • Society/collective mood/political ‘economic environment

ATR pension may be higher

  • longer term
  • impact of short term volatility less
  • Not accessible til 55
  • Effect of tax relief/ employer contributions
  • consideration for capacity for loss different
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12
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Reasons to use DFM (5)

Potential risks of using DFM (8)

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  • Active management /Alpha
  • wider range of assets/funds
  • time markets/speed of transaction
  • Bespoke
    Influence asset allocation
  • Tax planning service

Risks of using DFM:

  • FSCS limit exceeded / not available
  • DFM uses unsuitable assets
  • Duplication with non DFM portfolio
  • DFM acts outside mandate/ deviation from benchmark
  • Regulatory issues
  • Overtrading
  • Higher costs
  • service may include tax liability
  • Underperformance, negative alpha/does not add value
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13
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Risks in investing in high yielding alternative investment

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  • Liquidity risk
  • Accessability risk
  • interest rate risk/gearing risk
  • Valuation risk
  • Diversification/correlation risk
  • default credit risk
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14
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Investment considerations that’s could impact on objectives approaching retirement

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  • Change in health /life expectancy
  • Change in taxation
  • change in inflation
  • Market volatility
  • sustainability of income
  • Other savings
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15
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Investment Management Services - 3 Different options

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  • Bespoke segregated portfolio (discretionary or advised).
    Offered by stockbroker or private client investment manager
  • Managed portfolios - Structured to match risk profiles. Approach specific to them
  • Unitised version of model portfolios
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16
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Expenses and fees that a client may be subject to - DFM

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  • AMC and any ongoing charges
  • dealing commissions/ bid/offer spread
  • Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (POTM levy)
  • SDRT
  • Initial set up fees/exit fees
  • one off valuation charges
    VAT
  • Custodian, platform fees, wrapper fees
17
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Sequencing risk

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  • Impact of volatility
    -on order and timing of withdrawals
  • sustainability of future income
  • long term impact on capital value
  • Greater in early years
    Danger that timing of withdrawals form an account will damage overall return
18
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MAin objectives of rebalancing (6)

Main issues anIFA considers when rebalancing portfolio set up for income

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  • realign portfolio to original asset allocation/weighting
  • match ATR
  • capacity for loss
  • review individual funds/correct any style drift
  • invest cash
  • adjust portfolio to deal with any changes in circumstances /needs/objectives

Issues:

  • Trading costs
  • WHETHER to alter benchmark
  • tax liabilities
  • Legislation issues
  • rebalancing automatic or manual
  • frequency
  • Will existing income be affected
  • Liquidity
  • market timing
  • ongoing suitability of funds/asset allocation
19
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What can be held in Innovative ISA

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  • peer to Peer
  • Cash
  • Debt based securities/bonds/loans to companies
20
Q

PIBS & PSBs

Difference

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  • PIBS : Building Society Permanent Interest Bearing Security
  • PSBs: demutualised now Bank Perpetual subordinated Bonds
  • Undated ie permanent …or perpetual ongoing
  • Sensitive to interest rates
  • Protection - no FSCS
    -Rank behind all creditors and depositors- credit rating is important
  • normally relative high coupon to compensate
  • Interest payments - non cumulative
  • Income gross but taxable
    = No CGT
  • high minimum investment amounts
21
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Potential Drawbacks of Hedge Funds (7)

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  • High charges
  • complex
  • Lack of transparency re investment strategy
  • Often based offshore /low regulation
  • high risk/geared
  • high minimum investment level;
  • may not be liquid
  • lack of information/updates
  • Reliance on fund manager quality
22
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FTSE LISTING REQUIREMENT

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  • Trading history - 3 years
  • Min 25% shares must be offered to market
  • Minimum market capitalisation required
  • IFRS accounting practice required - International Financial Reporting standards

AIM - No trading history requirement

  • No minimum shares offered
  • Broader range of accounting standards
  • NO. MINIMUM MARKET CAP
23
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Reason to make Bonus /Scrip issue

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  • bring share price down to a moire marketable level
  • Restructure Comanche reserves / increase share capital
  • Alternative to pay dividend
24
Q

Risks associated with B2L( 5)

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  • Interest rate
  • Physical damage
  • Market risk
  • property value falling
  • Liquidity
  • tenant/income risk
  • Void periods
25
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Risks of peer to peer lending(5)

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  • No FSCS
  • Lack of liquidity
  • Credit risk/default risk
  • Counter part risk
  • new industry so no way of telling how would survive economic downturn
26
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Technical Analysis used to m are share purchase decisions

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  • Excludes Fundamental analysis
  • Uses charts of past share price
  • identifies trends/patterns that predict future performance
  • Assumes that are repeated