l3 23 equity portfolio management

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a discuss the role of equities in the overall portfolio;
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b discuss the rationales for passive, active, and semiactive (enhanced index) equity investment approaches and distinguish among those approaches with respect to expected active return and tracking risk;
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c recommend an equity investment approach when given an investor’s investment policy statement and beliefs concerning market efficiency;
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d distinguish among the predominant weighting schemes used in the construction of major equity share indices and evaluate the biases of each;
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e compare alternative methods for establishing passive exposure to an equity market, including indexed separate or pooled accounts, index mutual funds, exchange- traded funds, equity index futures, and equity total return swaps;
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f compare full replication, stratified sampling, and optimization as approaches to constructing an indexed portfolio and recommend an approach when given a description of the investment vehicle and the index to be tracked;
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g explain and justify the use of equity investment–style classifications and discuss the difficulties in applying style definitions consistently;
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h explain the rationales and primary concerns of value investors and growth investors and discuss the key risks of each investment style;
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i compare techniques for identifying investment styles and characterize the style of an investor when given a description of the investor’s security selection method, details on the investor’s security holdings, or the results of a returnsbased style analysis;
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j compare the methodologies used to construct equity style indices;
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k interpret the results of an equity style box analysis and discuss the consequences of style drift;
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l distinguish between positive and negative screens involving socially responsible investing criteria and discuss their potential effects on a portfolio’s style characteristics;
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m compare long–short and long- only investment strategies, including their risks and potential alphas, and explain why greater pricing inefficiency may exist on the short side of the market;
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n explain how a market- neutral portfolio can be “equitized” to gain equity market exposure and compare equitized market- neutral and short- extension portfolios;
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o compare the sell disciplines of active investors;
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p contrast derivatives- based and stock- based enhanced indexing strategies and justify enhanced indexing on the basis of risk control and the information ratio;
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q recommend and justify, in a risk- return framework, the optimal portfolio allocations to a group of investment managers;
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r explain the core- satellite approach to portfolio construction and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of adding a completeness fund to control overall risk exposures;
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s distinguish among the components of total active return (“true” active return and “misfit” active return) and their associated risk measures and explain their relevance for evaluating a portfolio of managers;
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t explain alpha and beta separation as an approach to active management and demonstrate the use of portable alpha;
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u describe the process of identifying, selecting, and contracting with equity managers;
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v contrast the top- down and bottom- up approaches to equity research.
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