CAIA LEVEL 1 & 2 EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A/ CAIA LEVEL 1 & 2 EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A (GUARANTEED SUCCESS) Define investment - ANSWER -Investment is deferred consumption List the four major types of real assets other than land and other types of real estate. - ANSWER -Natural resources, commodities, infrastructure, and intellectual property. List the three major types of alternative investments other than real assets in the CAIA curriculum. - ANSWER -Hedge funds, Private Equity, and Structured Products Name the five structures that differentiate traditional and alternative investments - ANSWER -Regulatory Structures, Securities Structures, Trading Structures, Compensation Structures, and Institutional Structures. Which of the five structures that differentiate traditional and alternative investments relates to the taxation of an instrument? - ANSWER -Regulatory Structures Name the four return characteristics that differentiate traditional and alternative investments. - ANSWER -Diversification, Illiquidity, Inefficiency, and Nonnormality. Name four major methods of analysis that distinguish the analysis of alternative investments from the analysis of traditional investments. - ANSWER -Return Computation Methods, Statistical Methods, Valuation Methods, Portfolio Management Methods. Describe an incomplete market. - ANSWER -An incomplete market refers to the lack of investment opportunities that causes market participants to be unable to implement an investment strategy that satisfies their exact preferences such as risk preferences. Define active management. - ANSWER -Active management refers to efforts of buying and selling securities in pursuit of superior combinations of risk and return. What distinguishes use of the term pure arbitrage from the more general usage of the term arbitrage? - ANSWER -Pure arbitrage is risk free, while arbitrage, as a more general term is not risk free. Pure arbitrage is an attempt to earn risk -free profits through the simultaneous purchase and sale of identical positions trading at different prices in different markets . Whereas, arbitrage is used to represent efforts to earn superior returns even when risk is present because the long and short positions are not identical assets or are not held over the same time period. What is the term for a private management advisory firm that serves a group of related and ultra -high net worth investors? - ANSWER -Family office In a large financial services organization, what is the name used to denote the people and processes that play a supportive role in the maintenance of accounts and information systems as well as in the clearance and settlement of trades? - ANSWER -
Back office operations Are dealer banks described as buy -side or sell -side market participants? - ANSWER -
Sell-side market participants List several advantages of Separately Managed Accounts relative to funds. - ANSWER -1) A fund investor owns shares of a company (the fund) that in turn owns other investments, whereas an SMA investor actually owns the invested assets as the owner on record. 2) A fund invests for the common purposes of multiple investors, while an SMA may have objectives tailored to suit the specific needs of the investor, such as tax efficiency. 3) A fund is often opaque to its investors to promote confidentiality; an SMA offers transparency to its investors. 4) Fund investors may suffer adverse consequences from redemptions (withdrawals) and subscriptions (deposits) by other investors, but an SMA provides protection from these liquidity issues for its investors. Which of the following participants is LEAST LIKELY to be classified as an outside service provider to a fund: Arbitrageurs, accountants, auditors, or attorneys? - ANSWER -Arbitrageurs List four major legal documents necessary for establishing and managing a hedge fund? - ANSWER -Private -placement memorandum, partnership agreement, subscription agreement, management company operating agreement What is systemic risk? - ANSWER -Systemic risk is the potential for economy -wide losses attributable to failures or concerns over potential failures in financial markets, financial institutions, or major participants . What is the acronym for fund vehicles that are regulated and allow retail access of hedge -fund-like investment pools in the European Union? - ANSWER -UCITS In terms of financial regulation, what is the FCA? - ANSWER -Financial Conduct Authority - the primary regulator of financial services in the UK. What is progressive taxation of income? - ANSWER -Progressive taxation places higher percentage taxation on individuals and corporations with higher incomes. What is the general term denoting compound interest when the interest is not continuously compounding? - ANSWER -Discrete compounding What is the primary challenge that causes difficulty in calculating the return performance of a forward contract or other position that requires no net investment? How is that challenge addressed? - ANSWER -If the forward contract has a starting value of zero, it would cause division by zero. One solution to the problem of computing return for derivatives is to base the return on notional principal. Another is to include collateral. Consider a position in a single forward contract. What distinguishes a fully collateralized position in this forward contract from a partially collateralized position? - ANSWER -A fully collateralized position is paired with a quantity of capital equal in value to the notional principal of the contract whereas a partially collateralized position is paired with a collateral lower in value than the notional value. An IRR is estimated for a fund based on initial investment when the fund was created, several annual distributions and an annual estimate of the fund's value prior to termination. What type of IRR is this? - ANSWER -Since Inception IRR An investment has two solutions for its IRR. What can be said about the investment and the usefulness of the two solutions? - ANSWER -There are two sign changes in the cash flow stream. None of the IRRs should be used. Two investments are being compared to ascertain which investment would add the most value to a portfolio. Both investments have simplified cash flow patterns of an initial cost followed by positive cash flows. Why might the IRRs of the investment provide a n unreliable indication of which investment adds more value? - ANSWER -
The major challenge with comparing IRRs across investments is when investments have scale differences. Scale differences are when investments have unequal sizes and/or timing of their cash flows. An analyst computes the IRR of an alternative to be 20% and another to be 30%. When the analyst combines the cash flows of the two alternatives into a single investment, must the IRR of the combination be greater than 20% and less than 30%? - ANSWER -
No. The answer is not immediately apparent because the IRR of a portfolio of two investments is not generally equal to a value -weighted average of the IRRs of the constituent investments. If the cash flows from two investments are combined to form a portfo lio, the IRR of the portfolio can vary substantially from an average of the IRRs of the two investments.
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