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Describe Securities Act of 1933

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Regulates the issuance of new securities (Primary Market )
Requires new issuance to be accompanied with a prospectus before being purchased

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Describe Securities Act of 1934

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Regulates the Secondary Market and trading of securities
Created the SEC to enforce compliance with security regulations and laws

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What is the SEC

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Securities Exchange Commission

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That are the tree types of Investment Companies

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Open, Closed, Unit Investment Trusts

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Describe Investment Advisors Act of 1940

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Required investment advisors to register with the SEC or State

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Describe Securities Investors Protection Act of 1970

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to protect investors for losses resulting from brokerage firm failures
does not protect investors from incompetence or bad investment decisions
protects member firms regardless of citizenship

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Describe Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act of 1988

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An insider is anyone with information that is not avail to the public
insiders cannot trade on this information

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When is ex- dividend date

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The date stock trades without dividend
One business day before date of record

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Equation for Margin Position

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Equity/ Fair Market Value

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Equation for Equity (Margin calculation)

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Stock- Loan Price

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Equation for Margin Call

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Loan/ (1- Maintenance Margin)

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Define Treasury Bills

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Issued in varying maturities up to 52 weeks
denominations in $100 increments through treasury Direct up to 5 mil per auction

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Define Commercial Paper

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Short Term loans between corporations
Maturities of 270 or less and it doesn’t have to register with SEC
Denominations of 100,000 and sold at discount

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Define Bankers’ Acceptance

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Facilitates Imports/ Exports
Maturities of 9 mos or less
Hold to maturity or trade

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Define Euro Dollars

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Deposits in foreign banks that are denominated in USD

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What are the components of an Investment Policy Statement

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  1. Return Requirements
  2. Risk Tolerance
  3. Times Horizon
  4. Liquidity
  5. Taxes
  6. Laws & Regulations
  7. Unique Circumstances
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Describe Simple Price Weighted Average

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average price of stock
does not consider percent allocation of the position within the portfolio

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Describe Value Weighted Index

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incorporates market capitalization of individual stocks into the average

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Name Indices that use Simple Price Weighted Average

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Dow Jones industrial average

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Name Indices that use value weighted index

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S&P 500
Russell 2000 (smallest market cap)
Wilshire 500
EAFE- tracks Europe, Australia, Asia

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Behavioral Bias- Affect Heuristic

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Deals with Judging something whether it’s good or bad.

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Behavioral Bias- Anchoring/ Conservatism/ Belief Perseverance

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attaching one’s thoughts to a reference point even though there may be no logical relevance or not pertinent to the issue in question

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Behavioral Bias- Availability Heuristic

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Decision maker relies on knowledge that is readily available in his or her memory.

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Behavioral Bias- Bounded Rationality

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Seeking satisfactory solutions rather than optimal ones
during decision making rationality is limited by the available information

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Behavioral Bias- Confirmation Bias
Tendency to filter information and focus on information supporting their decision
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Behavioral Bias- Cognitive Dissonance
Misinterpret information that is contrary to an existing opinion or only pay attention to information that supports and existing opinion
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Behavioral Bias- Disposition Effect
"Regret/ Avoidance/ Faulty Framing. Investors make mental accounts when they purchase stock and then continue to mark their value as purchase price even when market price has changed
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Behavioral Bias- Familiarity Bias
over/ underestimate risk of investments when they are familiar/ unfamiliar with them.
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Behavioral Bias- Gambler's Fallacy
investor having incorrect understanding of probabilities which can lead to faulty predeictions
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Behavioral Bias- Hindsight Bias
looking back and assuming you can predict the future as readily as the past can be explianed
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Behavioral Bias- Overconfidence Bias
investor listens mostly to self
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Behavioral Bias- Illusion of Control Bias
overestimate ability to control events
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Behavioral Bias- Overreaction
emotion towards new or info
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Behavioral Bias-Prospect Theory
provides that people will value gains and losses differently and will base their decisions on perceived gain over losses. "loss averse"
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Behavioral Bias- Recency
giving too much weight to recent observations
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Behavioral Bias- Similarity Heuristic
decision or judgement is made when a similar situation occurs even though the situations may have different out comes
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Standard Deviation
Measure of Risk & Variability of Returns
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Coefficient of Variation Use
* Used to determine which investment has more relative risk when investments have different average returns. * Tells the probability of actually experiencing a return close to average return. * The higher the CV the riskier an investment per unit of return
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Coefficient of Variation Calculation
Standard Deviation/ Average Return
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Platykurtic Shape
Low peak, thin tail (lower change of extreme events)
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Leptokurtic Shape
High Peak, Fat Tail (higher chance of extreme events)
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Kurtosis
a variation of returns
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Covariance
The measure of two securities combined and their interactive risk. (how price movements between two securities are related to each other
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What is Covariance a measure of?
Relative risk
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Correlation/ Correlation Coefficient
measure of movement of one security relative to that of another (relative risk measure)
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Positive 1 Correlation means
Two assets are perfectly positively correlated
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Correlation of 0 means
the assets are completely uncorrelated
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Negative 1 Correlation means
perfectly negative correlation
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Beta
a measure of an individual securities volatility relative to the market (systematic risk)
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Beta of the market
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Coefficient of Determination or (R squared)
a measure of how much return is due to the market or what percentage of a security's return is due to the market.
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Unsystematic Risk
Accounting Risk Business risk Country Risk Default Risk Executive Risk Financial Risk Government Regulation risk Diversifiable Risk Unique Risk Company specific risk
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Systematic Risk
Purchasing power (equities + bonds) Reinvestment rate risk (bonds) interest rate risk (equities + bonds) market risk (equities+ bonds) exchange rate risk (equities) Non diversifiable risk economy based risk
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Efficient Frontier
The curve which illustrates the best possible returns that could be expected from all possible portfolios. in terms of risk and reward relationship
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Indifference Curves
constructed using selections made based on this highest level of return given an acceptable level of risk. Represents how much return an investor needs to take on risk.
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Efficient Portfolio
when an investors indifference curve is tangent to the efficient frontier
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Capital Market Line
the Macro Aspect of the Capital Asset Pricing model. specifies the relationship between risk and return in all possible portfolios
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What level of risk does Capital Market Line use
Standard Deviation
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
Calculates the relationship of risk and return of an individual security using beta as its measure of risk
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What does the information ratio measure
The excess return and consistency provided by a fund manager relative to a bench mark
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Dividend Payout Ratio Formula
Common stock/ Earnings Per Share
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Return on Equity Formula
Earnings per share/ stockholders equity per share
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Dividend Yield Formula
Dividend/ Stock Price
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What calculations are included in Fundamental Analysis?
Liquidity, activity, profitability, common stock measurements
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Odd lot trading
trades less than 100 shares
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The Dow Theory
Signals and end to a bull or bear market
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Breadth of the market
Measures the number of stocks that increase in value versus the number of stocks that decline in value
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Advance Decline Line
difference between the number of stocks that closed up vs the number of stocks that decreased in value.
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Types of Active Asset Allocation
Strategic (yearly re-allocation), Tactical (frequent re- allocation)
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Non Marketable Treasury Issues
Series EE/ E bonds, Series HH/ H Bonds, Series I Bonds
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Marketable US Treasury Issues
T Bills, US Treasury notes, US Treasury Bonds
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Describe the Liquidity Preference Theory
Lower yield for shorter maturities because investors prefer liquidity. Long term yield should be higher because of added risk associated with long term maturities
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Market Segment Theory
Yield curve depends on supply and demand.
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Expectations Theory
Yield curve theory- yield curve reflects investors inflation expectations
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Unbiased Expectations Theory
Related to the term structure of interest rates. Assumes that todays long term rates are geometric averages of current expected and future short term rates.
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Bond Duration
Weighted average of all cash flows Longer the duration the more sensitive to interest rate changes
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Modified Duration
Bond’s price sensitivity to changes in interest rates
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Conversion Value equation
CV= PAR/ CP x Ps
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Conversion Ratio
1000/ CP- the number of shares the convertible bond can be converted into.
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How to calculate Net Asset Value (NAV)
Assets- Liabilities/ Shares Outstanding
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Types of Mutual Funds
Aggressive Growth Growth Growth & Income Value Fund Balanced Fund Bond Fund Money Market Funds index funds sector funds asset allocation/ life style funds global funds international funds
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Intrinsic Value of Call Option
Stock Price- Strike Price..... cannot be less than 0
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Time Value Equation
Premium- Intrinsic Value
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Option Pricing Model- Black Scholes
considers current price of underlying asset, time until expiration, risk free rate of return, and volatility pf underlying asset.
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Option Pricing Model- Put Call Parity
attempts to value put option based on value of corresponding call option.
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Optio Pricing Model- Binomial Pricing Mode
values option assuming that stock can only move on one of two directions

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