CFA 2018 Quest Bank R42 Portfolio Risk and Return Part I Q Bank

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LO.a: Calculate and interpret major return measures and describe their appropriate uses.
  1. Siraj intends to evaluate the annualized returns of his buy-and-hold strategy after making his annual deposits to an account for each of the past three years. Which of the following methods should be used, most appropriately? A.
  Geometric mean return.
  Money-weighted return.
  Arithmetic mean return.
  2. An investor's transactions in a mutual fund and the fund's return over a three year period are given below: Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
  New investment at the beginning of the year $2,000 $2,200 $3,000 Investment return for the year -10% 25% 40% Withdrawal by investor at the end of the year $0 $1,000 $0
  Based on the data, the money weighted return for the investor is closest to: A.
  3. An analyst observes that the historic geometric returns are 10% for fixed income securities, 5% for treasury bills and 2% for inflation. The real rate of return for fixed income securities is closest to:
  4. An analyst obtains the following annual rates of return for a mutual fund:
  Year 2011 2012 2013 Return (%) 23 -14 -1.5
  The fund’s holding period return over the three-year period is closest to: A.
  5. Ahmed invested in a fund which offered the following returns over the last three years:
  Year Assets under management at start of year Net Return (%) 1. 15 million
  15 2. 20 million -5 3. 5 million
  10 The money-weighted annual return is closest to: A.
  6. You are evaluating the performance of two investment managers in your team:  Soomro: In the last 200 days, he has earned a holding period return of 9.2 percent.
   Seemi: Over the past 5 months, her holding period return is 6.0%. Which manager performed better? A.
  Both did equally well.
  7. Saman purchases two shares of Sun Co, one for $32 at time t = 0 and the other for $45 at t =
  1. At t = 2, he sells them both for $53 each. The stock paid a dividend of $0.75 per share at t = 1 and at t = 2. The periodic money weighted rate of return on the investment is closest to: A.
  8. Liquidity least likely impacts which of the following with respect to trading costs? A. stock price.
  B. brokerage commissions.
  C. bid–ask spread.
  9. Fred David invested in the stock of a hypothetical company called Stars Ltd. He purchased three shares worth $100 each at the beginning of the first year. He invested in another share worth $115 before the beginning of the second year. He sold the four shares at the end of the second year for a price of $120 per share. At the end of each period, the stock paid a dividend of $2 per share. Which of the following is most likely to be the money-weighted rate of return?
LO.b: Describe characteristics of the major asset classes that investors consider in forming portfolios.
  10. Which of the following asset classes have historically had the highest returns and standard deviation? A.
  Long-term corporate bonds.
  Large-cap stocks.
  Small-cap stocks.
  11. Which of the following asset classes have historically had the lowest returns and standard deviation? A.
  Long term treasury bonds.
  Treasury bills.
  Large cap stocks.
LO.c: Calculate and interpret the mean, variance, and covariance (or correlation) of asset returns based on historical data.
  12. The following table presents historical information for two stocks, ABC and XYZ: Variance of returns for ABC 0.0308 Variance of returns for XYZ 0.0705 Correlation coefficient between ABC and XYZ 0.6500
  The covariance between ABC and XYZ is closest to: A.
  13. A measure of how the returns of two risky assets move in relation to each other is the: A. portfolio return.
  B. covariance.
  C. standard deviation.
  14. Ahmed’s portfolio consists of two stocks: Ivne. Ltd and Iris. Co. The standard deviation of returns is 0.25 for Ivne. Ltd and 0.14 for Iris. Co. The covariance between the returns of the two stocks is 0.0045. The correlation of returns between them is: A.
  15. Which of the following statements is least accurate? A.
  If you add a stock to a portfolio where the risk of the stock is equal to the risk of the portfolio and the correlation is 0.6, the overall risk of the new portfolio will be lower.
  The correlation coefficient and potential benefits from diversification are inversely related.
  A zero variance portfolio can be constructed by combining two securities with a correlation coefficient of 0.
  16. You are a U.S investor with 78% invested in the S&amp;P 500 and 22% invested in the Dow Jones 30 index. The risk and expected return data is given below:
  Risk (%) Expected Return (%) Covariance (% squared) S&amp;P 500 16.32%
  0.43 Dow Jones 30 32.86%14.97 The
  portfolio’s expected return and risk are closest to: A.
  10.95% and 15.14%.
  10.90% and 15.10%.
  11.58% and 15.10%.
  17. The correlation between the historical returns of Stock A and Stock B is 0.75. If the variance of Stock A is 0.25 and the variance of Stock B is 0.36, the covariance of the returns of Stock A and Stock B is closest to:
  0.30. C.
  0.36. LO.d: Explain risk aversion and its implications for portfolio selection.
  18. An investment has a 50% probability of returning 10% and a 50% probability of returning 4%. An investor prefers this uncertain investment over a guaranteed return of 8%. This preference most likely indicates that the investor is risk:
  A. seeking.
  B. neutral.
  C. averse.
  19. The risk-return relationship for a risk averse investor is most likely to be: A. positive.
  B. negative.
  C. neutral.
  20. You are advising three clients of whom Eliyahu Goldratt is the most risk-averse. According to the utility theory, the indifference curve for Goldratt will most likely be the one with the: A. greatest slope coefficient.
  B. smallest intercept value.
  C. least convexity.
  21. Which of the following statements about risk-averse investors is least accurate? A risk-averse investor: A. will take additional investment risk if sufficiently compensated for this risk.
  B. seeks out the investment with minimum risk, given a certain level of return.
  C. avoids participating in global equity markets.
  LO.e: Calculate and interpret portfolio standard deviation.
  22. Selected information about shares of two companies is provided below: ABC Corporation XYZ Corporation
  Standard deviation 25% 30% Correlation of returns 0.24 Portfolio weights 40% 60%
  The standard deviation of returns of the portfolio formed with these two stocks is closest to: A.
  23. An analyst studies an investment portfolio with stocks of Company ABC and Company JKL.
  He wishes to compute the correlation of returns between the stocks. However, the only bits of information available include the following data.
  Stock Standard Deviation Portfolio Weights
  ABC 36% 40%
  JKL 27% 60% The standard deviation of the

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