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What are alternative investments?

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Various types of investments that do not fall under regular investments type

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What are traditional invetments?

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They are long-only investments in cash or publicly traded stocks/bonds

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What are types of alternative investments? (3)

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Private capital, real estate and hedge funds

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What are real estate categories? (4)

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Residential, commercial, properties and ABD

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What are natural resources categories? (4)

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Commodities, farmland, and timberland

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What are infrastructures?

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Long-lived assets that provide public services

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What is fund investing?

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Investing in a pool of assets alongside other investores, using fund manager who selecr and manages investments using upon agreed strategy

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What is term-sheet?

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It describrs investment policy, for strucuture and requirements

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What is co-investing?

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It is live fund investing, but investors can manage alongside the fund managers

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What are side letters?

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It is special terms that apply to one LP, but not the other

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What is master limited partnership?

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It is publicly traded, most common in natural resources and real estate

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What fees of a fund consists of?

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Management fee and performance fee

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How is management fee calculated for hedge funds?

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As % of assets under management

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How is management fee calculated for PE funds?

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As % of commited capital

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What is soft hurdle rate?

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It is performance fee as % of total increase in each partners investment

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What is hard hurdle rate?

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It is performance fee as % of gains above te hurdle rate

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What is catch up clause?

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It allows fund manager to receive higher share of profits over certain threshold received

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What is high-water mark?

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There is no performance fee paid on gains that only ofsset prior losses

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What is deal-by-deal waterfall?

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It is when profits are distributed as each fund investment is sold

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What is whole of fund waterfall?

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LPs receive all distributions until 100% of their initial investment & hurdle rate

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What is clawback provision?

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It is if GP accrues or receives incentive payments on gains that are reversed as deals exit, LPs can recover previous payments

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What are lifecycles of alternative investments?

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Capital commitment, deployment and distribution

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What is capital commitment phase?

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It is identifying investments and making capital calls

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What is capital deployment stage?

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It is when managers engage themselves in projects/firm they invest in

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What is capital distribution phase?
It is when returs are positive and accelerate
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Formula of multiple of invested capital
(total capital retained+value of remaining assets)/total capital paid in
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Formula of levered return
(r(V0+Vb)-rbVb)/V0
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What is fair value assumptions level 1?
Assets trade in active markets and have quoted prices readility available
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What is fair value assumption level 2?
There are no quoted prices available, but they can be valued on directly or indirectly observable inputs
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What is fair value level 3?
Assets require unobservable inputs to establish fair value
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What is lockout period?
It is when LPs cannot request redemptions or incur significant fees for it
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What is notice period?
It is timeframe within a fund has to fulfill redemption request
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What is founder class shares?
It is interest in early who receives better terms
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Formula of total fees
mV1+max[0; p(V1-V0)]
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Formula of rate of return for investors
(V1-V0-total fees)/V0
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What is pre-seed capital used for?
Idea stage
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What is seed-stage used for?
Product, development, marketing, market research
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What is early stage or start-up used for?
It is investments made for operations
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What is later stage financing/expansion venture capital?
It is after productions and sales have begun
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What is mezzanine-stage financing?
It is capital contributed for IPO
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What is trade sale?
It is sale of portion to a strategic buyer directly
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What is direct listing?
It is when only existing shares are sold with no underwritter
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What is special purpose aquisition company?
It is set up to raise capital that will be used to acquire on unspecified private company
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What is recapitalization?
It is issuing debt to funds dividend distribution to equity holders
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What is mezzanine debt?
It is private debt that is subordinated to senior secured debt
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What is distressed debt?
It is debt of mature companies in financial trouble
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What is unitranche debt?
It is combined debt of different types into a single loan
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What is vintage year?
It is the year the first investment was made by the fund
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What is core real estate strategies?
It is high quality properties with stable returns
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What is value-added real estate strategies?
It is development and redevelopment on larger scale than core-plus strategies
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What is opportunistic real estate strategies?
It is large scale redeveloping&repurchasing of assets, distressed properties and speculate on upturns in real estate markets
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How can you invest in infrastructure assets? (3)
-Construct and sell or lease to the government -Operate directly -Buy from gov and operate or lease
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What is take or pay arrangements?
You are required to pay minimum purchase price for agreed upon value
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What are brownfield investments?
Infrastructure already constructed
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What are greenfield investments?
Assets that are to be constructed
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What are alternative ways for exposure besides futures, forwards and options?
ETFs, ETNs and managed future funds
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Formula of the future prices
spot prices*(1+risk-free rate)+storage costs-convenience yield
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What is contago?
When convenience yield is small, future prices>sport prices
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What is backwardation?
It is when convenience yield is high, future prices
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What are fundamental long/short hedge fund strategy?
Long positions in undervalued security based on fundamental analysis also having short position portfolio of stocks/index
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What are fundamental growth hedge fund strategy?
Fundamental analysis to find high growth companies
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What are fundamental value hedge fund strategy?
Buy undervalued, short overvalued
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What are marekt neutral hedge fund strategy?
Hold equal amount in long and short positions so it cancels out
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What are short bias hedge fund strategy?
Take mostly short positions
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What are margin arbitrage hedge fund strategy?
Buy shares of the firm being aquired and short firm making aquisition
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What are distressed/restructuring hedge fund strategy?
Buy securities of a distressed company and short overvalued securities
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What are activist shareholder hedge fund strategy?
Buy equity shares to make influence
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What are relative value strategies?
It is buying a security and selling short related security with goal of profiting when pricing discrepancy is resolved
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What are opportunistic strategies?
They focus on macro events
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What are funds of funds?
It is investment company that invests in hedge funds
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What is market beta?
It is return attributable to broad market index
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What is strategy beta?
It is return attributable to specific sector
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What is alpha?
It is additional return delivered by the manager
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What is survivorship bias?
Hedge fund might not be included in the index unless it has existed for a minimum time or reached minimum risk
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What is selection bias?
Index providers assigning funds to categories inconsistently or having different requriements
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What is backfill bias?
It is effect on historical index return of adding fund returns for prior years to index returns when fund in added to an index
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What are smart contracts?
Self-executed contracts based on predetermined terms and conditions
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What is blockchain?
It is digital ledger that records information sequentially within blocks that are linked together and information is secured
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What is consesus protocols?
They determine how blocks are chained together
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What is proof of work protocol?
Miners use computers to solve cryptographic problem which verifies transactions
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What is proof of stake protocol?
It is network participants that pledge collateral to guarantee validity of the block
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What are permisionless network?
Transactions that are visible to all users within the network and any user can execute transaction
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What are permissioned network?
Users might be restricted from some network activities and permissions can modify the level of ledger accessibility
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What is cryptocurrency?
It is digital currency issued privately with no backing from a central bank
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What are stablecoins?
They offer stable digital currency values and are linked to the value of another asset secured by a basket of assets
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What is central bank digital currency?
It is digital version of banknote or coin issued by central bank
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What is tokenization?
It uses DLT to streamline tracking historical record of ownership
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What is security token?
It tracks ownership rights in publicly traded securities
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What are governance tokens?
They offer permissionless networks and act as voting rights to determine how networks should operate
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What are inheritent value differences?
Digital assets have no fundamental value
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What are transaction validation differences?
Digital assets are recorded on decentralized DL.
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What are medium of exchange differences?
Digital assets are used as alternative fiat currencies, mainly for online transactions
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What are centralized exchanges?
They are privately held and offer trading platforms for price transparency and value information
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What are decentralized exchanges?
It does not have a centralized authority and operates on distributed network
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What is crypto coin trust?
It offer shares in trust that holds large amount of crypto and futures
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What is crypto exchanged-traded products?
It aims to mimic returns of digital assets
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What are crypto stocks?
It is indirect exposure through business connection to digital assets
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What are asset-backed tokens?
It is digital ownership of physical or digital assets
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What is decentralized finance?
It seeks to develop sophisticated financial products and services using open-source financial applications

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