Investment Planning Flashcards

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Efficient Market Hypothesis

Weak Form

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  • Asserts FUNDAMENTAL analysis
  • Historical information will NOT help achieve above-average market returns
  • Advantage through INSIDE Information
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Efficient Market Hypothesis

Semi-Strong Form

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  • Rejects both technical & fundamental analysis
  • INSIDE Information WILL lead to above-average market returns
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Efficient Market Hypothesis

Strong Form

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  • Asserts that stock prices reflect ALL available information
  • No advantage could be gained
  • Even with inside information can one out-perform
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Ex-Dividend Date

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  • One business day before Record Date
  • Sell on Ex-Date, you will receive the dividend
  • Buy on Ex-Date, you will NOT receive the dividend
  • Must buy before Ex-Date to receive dividend
  • BE MINDFUL OF BUSINESS DAYS & WEEKENDS
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Securities Act of 1934

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  • Regulates secondary market
  • Created the SEC
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Securities Investors Protection Act of 1970

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  • Covers losses resulting from brokerage firm failures
  • Protects accounts regardless of the client’s citizenship
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Money Market Securities
Treasury Bills

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  • Varying maturities up to 52 weeks
  • Denominations of $100 increments
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Money Market Securities
Commercial Paper

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  • Maturities of 270 days or less
  • Does NOT have to register with SEC
  • Denominations of $100,000
  • Sold at a discount
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Money Market Securities
Bankers Acceptance

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  • Facilitates Imports & Exports
  • Maturities of 9 months or less
  • Can be traded or held until maturity
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Money Market Securities
Eurodollars

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  • Deposits in foreign banks denominated in US Dollars
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Affect Heuristic

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  • Like or dislike a company based on non-financial issues
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Anchoring

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  • Also known as Conservatism & Belief Perseverance
  • Attaching one’s thoughts even though there may be no logical relevance
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Availability Heuristic

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  • Relies upon information readily available in one’s memory
  • May cause investors to overweight recent events or patterns
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Confirmation Bias

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  • Focus on information supporting their opinions
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Cognitive Dissonance

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  • Tendency to misinterpret information contrary to an existing opinion and support an existing one
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Disposition Effect

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  • AKA Regret Avoidance or Faulty Framing
  • Create mental accounts of their stock purchases
  • And continue even after market prices have changed
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Familiarity Bias

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  • Underestimate/overestimate investments which they familiar/unfamiliar with
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Prospect Theory

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  • Base their decisions on perceived gains rather than perceived losses
  • May avoid high risk investments even if they offer strong risk-adjusted returns
  • One may over-insure against risks through low deductibles
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Herd Mentality

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  • Leads to buying high and selling low
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Representativeness

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  • Thinking a good company is a good investment without an analysis
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Familiarity

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  • Investing in companies that are familiar, like his or her own emplyer
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Leptokurtic

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  • High peak
  • Fat tails
  • HIGHER chance of extreme events
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Platykurtic

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  • Low peak
  • Thin tails
  • LOWER chance of extreme events
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Coefficient of Variation

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  • Useful in determining which investment has more relative risk when they have different average returns
  • Tells us the probability of actually experiencing a return close to the average return
  • Higher the CV the more risky an investment per unit of return
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Mean Variance Optimization

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  • Process of adding risky securities
  • But keeping the expected return the same
  • Finding the balance of asset classes to provide the lowest Std
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Covariance

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  • Measures Relative Risk
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Coefficient of Determination (R-Squared)

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  • Measures what % of return is due to the market
  • Determines how well-diversified a portfolio is
  • Square the Correlation Coefficient
  • If greater than or equal to 0.70 - use Beta
  • If less than 0.70 - use Std