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作者: cfaedu    时间: 2008-6-7 10:53     标题: [ CFA考试回顾 ] June 2008 CFA Level 3 Exam Feedback

参加 June 2008 CFA Level 3 Exam 的考生一直以来的备考和考试,您们辛苦了,预祝全体CFA Level 3 考生取得好成绩!!

这里是 June 2008 CFA Level 3 Exam 考生回顾专区,请参加 June 2008 CFA Level 3 Exam 考生畅所欲言:


1、回顾分析 June 2008 CFA Level 3 Exam 出题思路;
2、回顾 June 2008 CFA Level 3 Exam 相关试题;
3、谈谈 June 2008 CFA Level 3 Exam 备考心得和考试心得;
4、对以后 CFA Level 3 考生的建议;
5、对 June 2008 CFA Level 3 Exam 其他感想。
作者: shanexin    时间: 2008-6-8 06:54

美东可能是最早考完的,签了Pledge,考题恕我不能泄露,不过可以谈谈感想和风格...

1. 计算在实际考试中的比重不大,计算一般都很直接,而且从概念出发
2. 概念太多了,我只看了notes,而且复习时间很有限,有一题的知识点,我基本在notes上就没有看到过,有些知识点notes挖的也不够深,问了旁边一个考试,他只看了书,feedback比我好,基本上书上都概括到了。如果大家有时间,还是看看书,时间有限的话,吃透notes也能保证过了,notes还是效果/时间比要大于书。
3. 风格和notes后面的模拟题差别比较大,很多题感觉不是不会做,而是模糊啊,似曾相识,却又不肯定,当然也有可能我的基础比较差,牛人估计会觉得今天的很简单。
4.老外感觉都很好啊,我旁边的同学,考完就笑眯眯的跟我说well done,我只能尴尬的说gotta try another time。她很疑惑说,You didn't do well? 看来三级的题目还是比较适合老外,算的东西一少,咱就吃亏。


暂时这么多,祝大家好运,我给大家当分母了,来年继续努力。

作者: sun2210    时间: 2008-6-8 07:01

7号london考完,发誓以后再也不想再考了。

上午essay时间比较紧张,一定要提高阅读速度,不要在前几道题上浪费太多时间.下午题目比较简单,不对对概念细节一定把握准确,对计算要求不高,主要是知识的综合运用。good luck for everyone!

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-6-8 7:11:01编辑过]


作者: viviansky    时间: 2008-6-8 07:39

My only advice is to manage your time wisely in the morning section, because it is so fxxxing long....Afternoon section is unbelievably easy.

作者: happymice    时间: 2008-6-8 08:08

在纽约考的,基本上:上午的题目写得手抽筋,下午的题目比较简单。

总体感觉,基本概念很重要,不需要去深究那些难题。只要把基本概念掌握好了,一切都OK。我属于那个不OK的类型。祝国内的xdjm好运。

作者: young2046    时间: 2008-6-8 17:41

虽然我考的是1级 也是同样的感觉 基本概念 哪怕是最基本的 不要因为简单就忽视
作者: danfeiyu    时间: 2008-6-8 18:17

同意4楼

it is really a matter of time.


作者: id_za2003    时间: 2008-6-8 18:23

上午的essay,这里有人没有做完的么?郁闷ing


作者: michaelzhb    时间: 2008-6-8 18:57

我在edinburgh考的.个人认为,上午的题目,如果把时间管理好.别说太多废话.答完没问题,通过也没问题.
哥们就是浪费了太多太多时间在前面.而且哥们没有表,考场有,但是看不见.结果还剩半个小时的时候,我以为还剩一个半..........
所以,下次再考,该说的说,不要力求完美.还有,考前真的要认认真真的做至少一套题.
好好写,3个小时内答完,哥们就是没有做过.在考场上完全没感觉....
下午的题目比较简单,不过也像二层的朋友说的,有些题目似曾相识,但的确拿不准.
个人认为,notes are enough for passing level III.
唉.....明年再战...............


作者: ProfessorS    时间: 2008-6-8 21:14

北京国贸.上午时间有点紧.下午很轻松.


作者: RollsRoyce    时间: 2008-6-9 00:37

题目不难,主要是时间问题

上午-只做完了50%的题目,正确率50%,

下午-做完了100%的题目,正确率80%

铁定没戏了,来年再战。。。


作者: letian78    时间: 2008-6-9 01:32

1)上下午难度差别太大:上午3个小时没做完,下午一个半小时就做完了。我旁边的一个金发mm 2小时就交卷了。

2)关于notes,有几个概念notes上是CFAI上有,notes上没有的。不过还是建议用notes。在CFAI上大海捞针,性价比太低了。而且如果像我一样只把书看一遍,也还是答不上来。

3)计算比重很小,大部分是概念。概念光理解不够,还要速度。比如说exhange rate hedge 和 swap,给我时间按概念慢慢推,mock exam 我都是全对的。可惜昨天都是凭感觉猜的。

4)时间管理很重要,特别是上午,前面的题目特花时间,而后面的相对比较直接,如果没时间做太可惜了。想反,下午要做慢一点,仔细一点。比如有一题问的是最不可能的,我直接反应就把最可能的给选了。(下意识,因为就是教材给的例子,还好后来发现了 )

Good luck


作者: vikki_sep    时间: 2008-6-9 05:41

我同意楼上的观点

AM的考题前部分都居长,结果花了不少时间读题,还希望能写得清楚些,结果还有一个小时的时候,还有一半没有做,只好飞快的读了遍题,大概把能用的概念放上去就完了。不过还是有些题到现在也没想明白,比如说第六题REVERSE CASH AND CARRY FORWARD还有第十一题算HOW MUCH CONTRACT  FOR HEDGE,可是题目没有给DURATION 或DULLAR DURATION或BETA什么的,

考前我做完了三个模考,基本都可以提前十到二十分钟写完AM,可到了真实的考试,发现感觉完全不一样,考完后郁闷坏了,只觉得如果再多给十分钟,考试结果会完全不一样!!!

PM的考题又比模考大大的容易,我想可能大多数考生有了AM的教训,都会加快速度,结果我也是提前一个小时就做完了,没记住太TRICK 的题,不过有一道计算 不同国家UNHEDGE RETURN 和HDEGE RETURN 的,让我花了有些时间,不知道是不是我公式记错了,算下来都是日本的RETURN最高。有人能指点下所用的计算公式吗?

不管如何,到了现在这份上,如果不过,只有咬牙再坚持下去,希望各位好运。


作者: hustgang    时间: 2008-6-9 08:19

总体感觉今年上午考题比往年难度大了很多,一些提靠的很偏,阅读量也大很多.而且分布不均匀,一些提的计算并不是大家说所的那么直接,比方那个考constant mix   AND CPPI的题目,就需要先算initial value ration between stocks and bonds,then  basing thsi initial ration decides the rebalancing size.在CPPI中,更需要按照T=k(V-FLOOR VALUE)确定初始股票价值分配,后根据新的组合资产价值重新计算后确定REBALANCING的量,转几转时间就没了.还有就是哪个CASH AND HOLD ARBITRAGE的题目,特毫时间.我估计大家都感觉还是比较难的,大家都难的话就没什么了.还有哪个考INVESTING STRATEGY 的题目,题目的阅读量太大了,虽然说不是很难,但是光写就的很长时间.

  下午的题难度较小,但有些题还是平时不是很注意的,比方那个LEADING INDICATOR 的题目,NOTES上没有,书本上有,估计大家平时也不会那么细,还是ETHIC中CAO担任COMPLIANCE OFFICER的题目,都是比较模糊和容易忽视的,还有哪个MANAGER FUTURE的题目,平时都不会很注意.


作者: nolatl    时间: 2008-6-9 11:47

基本上大家都是觉得上午具难,下午容易

上午没有提前交卷的,下午就多了


作者: wilsonpang    时间: 2008-6-9 12:25

其实上午不算难,倒是量很多,分数分布不平均

两道IPS如能好好把握已占72

最后3道题共占27,分数不多,问得也算直接

可是花27分钟肯定算不出来呀


作者: h76584    时间: 2008-6-9 17:16

有冇人知道下午选择题内有一道问题问:

 

做借贷时, 买入 interest rate put作对冲,问题问该interest rate putday 143 payoff.

 

答案好像有 0, 511,111, 28x,xxx, 7xx,xxx 供选择.

 

记忆所及, 那个loan 是分四期摊还, 计算时的notional 是用 250,000,000 还是用62,500,000? 62,500,000计算好像找不到答案. 另一方面, 它那个interest rate put 好像也是250,000,000. 这道问题困惑得很.

 

有人解答到吗?


作者: wilsonpang    时间: 2008-6-9 19:56

有人记得题目和分数吗?

1 individual IPS (36)

2 behavioral finance

3

4 DB plan (36)

5

6

7

8

9 (9)

10 (9)

11 currency hedging (9)

 

好像还有CM vs CPPI, corner portfolio


作者: hustgang    时间: 2008-6-9 20:43

17楼提到的那个题我也觉得有点不明白,想了半天,其实用的是INTEREST FLOOR,每期的PAYOFF

应该是NPx(X-LIBOR)x90/360,但是这样找不到答案,最后选了个与他最接近的500000


作者: hustgang    时间: 2008-6-9 20:44

大家都靠的怎么样,来此说说啊!~!
作者: luckycarl    时间: 2008-6-9 20:48

这个简单啊,就是B,不用约等于,算出来就是这个。不过如果不算,凭感觉也知道是500000上下的一个数,其他都差的太远


作者: hotdeserts    时间: 2008-6-9 22:11

我在美国考的,试题好像跟国内不一样。上午的时候考试中心还停电十分钟。最不应该错的是居然把convenience yield对no arbitrage  future price的影响搞反了,明明想的是减convenience yield,结果答却答错了。

作者: h76584    时间: 2008-6-9 22:18

我开始时也是这样算的, NPx(X-LIBOR)x92/360 , 我用的不是90天,而是用了92天因为题目的那个interest floor payment period 92天。算出来刚好是511,111。但有另一位考生对我说题目不是这样简单, 所以我也不知道正确答案。你们有算出别的答案吗?


作者: h76584    时间: 2008-6-9 22:35

有一个ethnics 的问题,选择题2题问那个经理替客户投资商品的那个问题, 他犯了甚么错误?

 

(1)    投资产品不符合客户的IPS

(2)    投资商品前没有通知客户

(3)    投资一些经理没有经验的资产

 

事实上,他三个错误都犯了, 但题目要求选出最好的一个。你们有甚么答案? 我的想法是这样:

 

经理应可考虑投资不符合客户IPS的投资产品, 但是要先跟客户商讨并获得同意。若经理不能考虑投资IPS以外的投资产品,那客户的投资组合岂不是永远不能rebalance ? 这跟IPS 内提及到的一个概念: 因应客户状况及经济环境而定期更新IPS  好像有点冲突。所以我选了(2)

 

你们有别的答案吗?


作者: luckycarl    时间: 2008-6-9 23:36

我觉得选A,如果觉得IPS需要update或者modify,应该跟客户商量做文字的修改,然后再根据新的IPS操作,违反IPS是绝对不行的,个人意见啊~


作者: sun2210    时间: 2008-6-10 00:39

同意楼上的意见,只要是在IPS框架之内,买卖任何商品有价证券都是可以的,前提是没有违反IPS。这个题目首先是没有按照IPS去执行,其他的都是附带的后果
作者: zgw1055    时间: 2008-6-10 07:23

突然想到一个问题,下午的试卷有签pledge的地方吗,印象中我只签了早上的pledge. 上午时间比较紧张,弄的我手忙脚乱,一个关于behavioral finance的题,要求每种现象只能选一次.第一个选了,后面感觉不对,又选了个别的,后来觉得还是不对,又给划了一个,4选1的题生被我弄成4选3了,估计评卷的也该看晕了呵呵

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-6-10 7:26:10编辑过]


作者: hustgang    时间: 2008-6-10 12:40

ETHIC的题有几个还是比较难的!下来后再看准则都没有拿准是否正确!?那个FLOOR的提应该就是511111,当时我可能没有注意一想到是90天LIBOR就乘90怎么算怎么想都只有这一种算法.
作者: luckycarl    时间: 2008-6-10 21:58

QUOTE:
以下是引用zgw1055在2008-6-10 7:23:00的发言:
突然想到一个问题,下午的试卷有签pledge的地方吗,印象中我只签了早上的pledge. 上午时间比较紧张,弄的我手忙脚乱,一个关于behavioral finance的题,要求每种现象只能选一次.第一个选了,后面感觉不对,又选了个别的,后来觉得还是不对,又给划了一个,4选1的题生被我弄成4选3了,估计评卷的也该看晕了呵呵

兄弟,不用紧张,一级二级还记得吗?从来cfai只要求上午签pledge,下午不用签的


作者: luckycarl    时间: 2008-6-10 22:05

QUOTE:
以下是引用hustgang在2008-6-10 12:40:00的发言:
ETHIC的题有几个还是比较难的!下来后再看准则都没有拿准是否正确!?那个FLOOR的提应该就是511111,当时我可能没有注意一想到是90天LIBOR就乘90怎么算怎么想都只有这一种算法.

我觉得这个题出的不好,没区分度,呵呵,要是我出就弄三个在500000上下的,才能考出知识点,现在这个题目不管知不知道floorlet是paid in arrear,或者用不用真实天数都能得出答案,所以说老外出题还是挺直的,呵呵


作者: shshian    时间: 2008-6-11 10:22

上午差好多没做完,所以心情巨差。本来以为看书看得已经不错了,但是概念的东西很多,拿出来就晕了,回来一看正好答反了。
明年再努力。
good luck!

作者: goldenbin    时间: 2008-6-11 12:11

对那个manager,大家是怎么处理的?是suspend还是怎么的,好像有两道选择题是问那个的?

对oversubsribed的share,他sell at market price,这行不行?

对那个manager的回应,他说review allocation strategy the end of every month,和debit from those who receive shares,分别是对还是错?


作者: 节彼南山    时间: 2008-6-11 12:16

哎,下午不到两小时就做完了,上午的题看起来都会都很简单,可是要明年再考了,因为上午11道题我只答了6道时间就没有了,如果从后往前答可能还比这样能多几分。个人感觉三级比前两级要简单很多,对于和我一样的这种英文表达能力和书写速度慢的中国考生,要通过明年的三级需要从现在就开始练习英文写作了。蓄芳待来年吧!

祝大家好运!


作者: goldenbin    时间: 2008-6-11 19:53

还有一道题,

说FOF有low fee,hedge fund有lock up period,那是问hedge fund还是FOF的?我怎么看成是Hedge fund了,不会又错了吧?


作者: sun2210    时间: 2008-6-11 21:44

FOF got higher fee than hedge fund
作者: luckycarl    时间: 2008-6-11 22:03

QUOTE:
以下是引用sun2210在2008-6-11 21:44:00的发言:
FOF got higher fee than hedge fund

但是是不是有locking period我还真的不是很sure了,这个对吗?


作者: sun2210    时间: 2008-6-11 22:26

i think they have, since FOF is the group of hedge funds, hedge has, FOF sure has, that is my opinion
作者: goldenbin    时间: 2008-6-11 23:15

我是问考lock up period的是针对fof还是hedge fund,我可能看的太快,看成是hedge fund了,我看人家讨论的是FOF...FOF没有lock up period, hedge fund有.. 我可能看错了,这下亏大了。。。选择题犯了几个白痴的错误。。。5555555555
作者: brett82    时间: 2008-6-12 00:10     标题: 回复32楼

FOF不过是hedge fund一种,我记得是higher fee, shorter lock-up period
作者: brett82    时间: 2008-6-12 00:16     标题: 刚才那个是回复34楼,说错了,这次是32楼

我觉得应该是suspend manager; sell oversubscribed shares at their costs; 最后那个应该是credit short term interest to those who shouldn't have received allocation, but don't debit on those who should have received shares

一家之言


作者: goldenbin    时间: 2008-6-12 14:09

这几道题讨论一下:

6. What should H do to comply with code and standard?
A.
B. reduce Black's allocation of the fund until compliance requirement meet
C. let Black continously manage the fund as long as achieve good return performance
D.

26. The repo rate is determined by collateral and position of the borrower?
Collateral    position
YES             YES

35. To minimize tracking error, add return, and reduce misfit risk, which is most appropriate?
A. Core-Satelitte Approach
B. Completeness Fund
C. Enhance indexing
D. Portable alpha
I choose A, this question have lots of arguements.

37. The university is want to maxmize information ratio, minimize tracking error, and there is instable cash inflow and outflow, the best strategy is
A. enhance indexing
B. enhance indexing with optimization
C. active management
D. enhance indexing with
Choose B.

38. The appropriate strategy for investing in an international market for the university if use an indexing strategy and want to reduce transaction cost:
A. investability rather than breath
B. target float adjustment rather than flexible adjust
C. band float adjustment rather than

39. To reduce rebalance cost and tracking error, the appropriate strategy
A. Indexing with optimization
B.
C. Passive Indexing
D.
Choose C.

40. Which of following statement is false?
Statement1:
Statement2:if active risk double, the active return will be double
Statement3:
Statement4:portable alpha can be added to indexing portfolio to ....?
I choose Statement 2.

48. Statement about manage future: it is a good diversified investment because investors tend to pay a premium for hedge. CTA has storage cost advantage than most individual, institution investors and traders.
A. YES
B. NO, first statement is true but second is false because CTA don't have such advantage
C. NO, because investor tend to receive a premium for hedge
D. NO, both statement is incorrect.
Choose B, not sure.

27. Statement regarding scenario analysis, can use it to determine the effect of only one variable change and scenario analysis can result in different result from total return approach
The statement is:
A. YES
B. NO, because it can't measure one variable change
C.
D. NO, can't result in different result with total return approach.


作者: goldenbin    时间: 2008-6-12 14:11

妈的,觉得下午容易,回头一看自己错好多。。
作者: luckycarl    时间: 2008-6-12 20:27

楼上这些题目是比较绕的,我也不是很sure,而且,有些自己选什么都有点模糊了,呵呵

26、35、37、40好像跟你一样,27我选B,scenario是同时改变几个变量,题目中应该用sensitivity analysis我觉得。其他几个记不清了,不过感觉自己好像错了,呵呵


作者: luckycarl    时间: 2008-6-12 20:33

QUOTE:
以下是引用brett82在2008-6-12 0:16:00的发言:

我觉得应该是suspend manager; sell oversubscribed shares at their costs; 最后那个应该是credit short term interest to those who shouldn't have received allocation, but don't debit on those who should have received shares

一家之言

自己选哪个记不清了,不过好像跟你不同,我始终觉得应该是客户盈利的就给客户不用追回(因为是我们的失误),客户亏损的要补偿客户,不知道是工作中的经验还是书上看的,所以也是一家之言,不是很sure
作者: ParisXue    时间: 2008-6-13 01:10

QUOTE:
以下是引用goldenbin在2008-6-12 14:09:00的发言:

这几道题讨论一下:

6. What should H do to comply with code and standard?
A.
B. reduce Black's allocation of the fund until compliance requirement meet
C. let Black continously manage the fund as long as achieve good return performance
D.

I choose suspend....just feeling..

26. The repo rate is determined by collateral and position of the borrower?
Collateral    position
YES             YES

I choose Yes    No. 没看到书上写position和repo rate有关系 有关系的是1.collateral quality 2.term of repo 3.delivery requirement 4.availability of collateral 5.prevailing interest rate 6.seasonal factor

35. To minimize tracking error, add return, and reduce misfit risk, which is most appropriate?
A. Core-Satelitte Approach
B. Completeness Fund
C. Enhance indexing
D. Portable alpha
I choose A, this question have lots of arguements.

I Choose A. Feeling....reduce misfit can also be done by comleteness fund but the return will be sacrified.

37. The university is want to maxmize information ratio, minimize tracking error, and there is instable cash inflow and outflow, the best strategy is
A. enhance indexing
B. enhance indexing with optimization
C. active management
D. enhance indexing with
Choose B.

I choose D. Enhanced indexing has highest IR.    (instable cash inflow and outflow:don't know this means what? Is it means cannot use full-replication?)

38. The appropriate strategy for investing in an international market for the university if use an indexing strategy and want to reduce transaction cost:
A. investability rather than breath
B. target float adjustment rather than flexible adjust
C. band float adjustment rather than

I choose A. International equity volumn 4 page 170 - investability rather than breath

39. To reduce rebalance cost and tracking error, the appropriate strategy
A. Indexing with optimization
B.
C. Passive Indexing
D.
Choose C.

don't remember...

40. Which of following statement is false?
Statement1:
Statement2:if active risk double, the active return will be double
Statement3:
Statement4:portable alpha can be added to indexing portfolio to ....?
I choose Statement 2.

I choose Statement 2.

48. Statement about manage future: it is a good diversified investment because investors tend to pay a premium for hedge. CTA has storage cost advantage than most individual, institution investors and traders.
A. YES
B. NO, first statement is true but second is false because CTA don't have such advantage
C. NO, because investor tend to receive a premium for hedge
D. NO, both statement is incorrect.
Choose B, not sure.

Choose B, not sure also.

27. Statement regarding scenario analysis, can use it to determine the effect of only one variable change and scenario analysis can result in different result from total return approach
The statement is:
A. YES
B. NO, because it can't measure one variable change
C.
D. NO, can't result in different result with total return approach.

I choose A.    B&C both wrong and it's a supplement to total return analysis.

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-6-13 1:10:49编辑过]


作者: ParisXue    时间: 2008-6-13 01:15

QUOTE:
以下是引用luckycarl在2008-6-12 20:33:00的发言:

自己选哪个记不清了,不过好像跟你不同,我始终觉得应该是客户盈利的就给客户不用追回(因为是我们的失误),客户亏损的要补偿客户,不知道是工作中的经验还是书上看的,所以也是一家之言,不是很sure

我觉的 某个客户多的 肯定是别的客户损失的 从market value 扣除 否则帐不平 需要补偿前者(被扣除IPO share)的时间成本(short term interest) 但是是公司去补偿 不能从别的客户那边扣除


作者: goldenbin    时间: 2008-6-13 12:27

道德那题我选了sell at market value是YES的,我假设IPO是盈利的,但大家都说是cost,我觉得赚就OK,亏就补COST和利息。。。我估计我错了,ETHICS我一向不好。。

collacteral和position那题我选的是YES NO,想当然应该是YES YES的,就是读死书害的,记得书上没写,结果错了。。。google了一下:What makes this choice interesting is that
the amount the trader finances directly in the market
may affect the repo rate itself. If the trader’s position
is substantial
, then as more and more collateral is
lent directly in the repo market, the special repo
rate will rise.

常理上来说,负债率越高,债务成本也上升。。


作者: goldenbin    时间: 2008-6-13 12:30

48. Statement about manage future: it is a good diversified investment because investors tend to pay a premium for hedge. CTA has storage cost advantage than most individual, institution investors and traders.
A. YES
B. NO, first statement is true but second is false because CTA don't have such advantage
C. NO, because investor tend to receive a premium for hedge
D. NO, both statement is incorrect.
这题应该选A, google过了


作者: goldenbin    时间: 2008-6-13 12:46

在这里把全部试题贴出来,试题为goldenbin凭印象整理,秩序和选项可能有所不同。。

I. ETHICS


1. A guy H is the head of YYY Company manage the account for XXX Govenment's pension plan, he should be responsible for which of the following
A. Trustee
B. all plan beneficiaries
C. XXXX Govenment
D. only the active retirees
Choose B

2. Black is managing equity portion small cap and High Tech for XYZ fund (according IPS) and find that recent commodities perfomance well, thus invest a position for parts of his large clients. He say he has no Violate what?
A. Should not deviate IPS
B.
C. should notify his clients
D. should not invest in commodities due to lack of experience
Choose A.

3. H investigate Black's investment in Commodities and Black say that's only temporary investment, and will liquidate the position once market come sentiment. He also find Black's recent participate in an High Tech IPO and overscribe the shares, thus ask Black for reason.
Black say I notice the error and thus sell 30,000 shares out of the 50,000 shares. H also say for those account which participant for the IPO should be

credit with short term interest.
The statement regarding the correction of the error is correct/incorrest, the statement for short term interest credit is correct/incorrect?
NO, YES
很多人认为remove at cost,所以第一个是NO,但现实中一般如果IPO是盈利的,应该可以sell at market price

4. H is not satisfy with Black's explanation but allow him to continue manage the account until he finish the evaluation. Considering his good performance, and might lead to great political pressure if fire Black. Did the fund manager violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, should not be affected by policital pressure
C. YES, should suspend Black's management of the account until the complete of his evaluation
D.
Choose C.

5. H ask Black to sent him a written statement following the CFAI Code, and Black response he will send email stating that he will check trading allocation procedure for clients at the end of each month. And interest will be debited from those account which receive shares allocation incorrectly.
The two statement violate CFAI Code?
NO         YES

6. What should H do to comply with code and standard?
A. fire the manager
B. reduce Black's allocation of the fund until compliance requirement meet
C. let Black continously manage the fund as long as achieve good return performance
D.
很多人选A,not sure


II. ETHICS
7. A company think CFAI Code and Standard and Asset Management Code is enough and they have lots of CFA chartholder and know the Code well, thus they think it's not necessary to fomulate formal compliance requirement for the firm. The firm recently nominate a Chief Compliance Officer.
Violate Code regarding to the firm's compliance policy? the nominating of CCO?
YES     NO

8. The firm recently hire a manager who have been strictly disciplined by regulator, should the firm disclose?
A. NO
B. YES, should disclose firm's personel/manager's discipline history
C.
D.
I choose B.

9. A guy work in the firm consider use VVV Company for data support, VVV paid for his accomodation $3000, and sent him a gift. The guy is considering using VVV for data support. Did the guy violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, should not accpet cash more than $100
C. YES, should not accpet any gift
D. YES, it can be expected that his independency and objectivity have been affected by the vendor
I choose D.

10. VVV also support the guy's son's soccer team, but the guy don't inform his employer, should the guy disclose the relationship with VVV to his clients and employer?
YES         YES

11. The company consider hedge fund investment, but consider the risk feature, it has minimum portfolio value requirement. Client D, whose risk tolerence is low and don't meet the min value requirement, the company thus don't consider hedge fund investment for him. D claim unfair, does

violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, treat in unfavor manner
C.
Choose A.

12. Some suggest that some private equity has poor liquidity and most portfolio not invest in them, thus should delete them from the composite return. The firm disclose return all in form of net-of-fees. Violate Code and Standard?
YES         NO


III. ECONOMICS FORCASTING
13. Stock market has a high correlation with coincide index, the statement is YES/NO?
A. YES
B. NO, becasue stock market is a leading index
C. NO, because stock market is a lagging index
D. NO, because stock market is a coincide index

14. The ratio of coincide index to leading index will be helpful in determining turning point, YES or NO?
A. YES
B. NO, the ratio of leading index to lagging index
C. NO, the ratio of leading index to coincide index
D. NO, the ratio of coincide index to lagging index
Choose D. 这题schweser上没有

15. Given netural interest rate = 4%, trend and forecast GDP growth 2.6% and 2.2%, long-term and forecast inflation 3.1% and 2.0%, calculate the target short-term interest rate.
Use Taylor rule and arrive the target rate = 4%+0.5*(2.2%-2.6%)+0.5*(3.1%-2.0%) = 4.35%

16. Given the two stage FCFE for stock market index, FCFE for 2007 is 60, the growth rate from 2008-2010 is 12.4%, the growth rate after 2010 is 9%, the cost of equity is 12.4% (the same to first stage growth rate, easy for discount the first 3 year FCFE), calculate the value of the index.
Use the two stage DCF model, this content should be tested in level 2.

17. Given the Dividend, EPS for 2007 and 2008, given riskfree rate and risk-premium, given ROE, calculate P/E for 2008 under DDM model.
Use D/E calculate payout ratio = 0.3, thus the retent ratio 0.7 apply to ROE and get growth rate, riskfree rate + risk-premium = equity required return, then P/E for 2008 should be payout/(k - g) = 16.3

18. The (k - g) componet is actually the
A. Dividend yield
B. P/B
C.
Choose A, P/E = payout/(k-g), k - g = E*payout/P = D/P, which is dividend yield.


IV. FIXED INCOME

Given four set of bonds, durations and maturities
BOND 1: Fixed rate Treasure Bond
BOND 2: Zero-Coupon Corporate bonds mature at 5 yrs and 7 yrs
BOND 3: Fixed rate Mortgage Passthrough
BOND 4: Fixed rate Corporate bonds mature at 7 yrs

A Liability with duration 5.8 mature at 5 yrs and 7 yrs, there are no interm cash flows.


19. Bond 3 will subject to contingent claim risk and cap risk?
YES         NO

20. Which of bond will be best to fund the liability?
BOND 2

21. Which of risk will Mortgage Passthrough have when interest decline?
A. negative convexity
B. credit risk
Definitely A.

22. To change the duration of bond 1 (100 million) from current 6.1 to 5.8, given the CTD bond's duration = 7.4, conversion factor = 0.91, future price = 1000, calculate the N of future to hedge.
Easy, conversion factor*(100m/0.1m)*(MDt - MDp)/MDf = N

23. which of following statment for fixed income is false?
Statement1: as callable bond's return is non-normal, standard deviation to calculate risk will not work.
Statement2: Semi-variance will be appropriate to measure bond's return
Statement3: shortfall risk calculate the probability that objective return are not meet, but don't specify the dollar amount how worse the result is
Statement4: VAR also don't specify the extent how worse the loss might be
Choose Statement2.

24. How to hedge credit risk if expect the credit spread widen?
A. buy credit defaut swap
B. sell credit defaut swap
C. sell binary call option
D. sell binary put option
Choose A. 这题存在争议,因为CDS一般不对冲credit spread risk,除此之外最好的选项是sell binary call,至少可以赚期权费,但如果spread持续widen,是不能on-going hedge的,CFAI真恶,给个credit spread option/forward直接点不好吗?

V. Fixed Income

25. Calcuate the return of the leverage, equity=2m, borrowing=5m, given borrowing rate = *% and portfolio's return =0.3%, for 30-day

26. The repo rate is determined by collateral and position of the borrower?
Collateral    position
YES             YES
经google过,position确实影响repo,因为影响借款人的credit risk

27. Statement regarding scenario analysis, can use it to determine the effect of only one variable change
can result in different result from total return analysis
The statement is:
A. YES
B. NO, because it can't measure one variable change
C.
D. NO, can't result in different result with total return approach.
Choose D.

28. Given US riskfree rate, and riskfree rate in UK, Japan, German and Singapore, as well as 10-year bond rate, ask the highest domestic return if hedged
Choose Japan, since domestic return = domestic Rf + (bond return - local Rf), just choose the one with highest local risk premium.

29. Given US riskfree rate, and riskfree rate in UK, Japan, German and Singapore, as well as 10-year bond rate, ask the highest domestic return if unhedge
Choose German, since domestic return = local return + expected currency change% , choose the one with highest of the sum.

30. Given the duration of Japan and Singapore bond, what's the quarterly breakeven yield change for 10-year US bond?
For Japan, For Singapore bond
Choose D, 6.05 and **** (can't remember)


VI. Equity Investment

31. Statement: Enhance return strategy is to generate higher active return, tracking error risk than passive indexing but lower information than active strategy. The statement is ?
A. CORRECT
B. Incorrect for information ratio
C. Incorrect for active return
D. Incorrect for tracking error
Choose B.

32. The firm use Russel 1000 Index as benchmark (with 7% return), the manager use Russel 1000 value as his own benchmark (with 10% return), his portfolio return is 9%, what is the true return and misfit return?
-1%, 3%

33. Statement: Information Breath is the number of independent decision a manager make. if the IB double, the information also double. Is the first and second statement is correct?
YES     NO

34. Find the manager with highest information ratio
manager 1: IR1 =0.70
manager 2: IR2 =0.74
manager 3: IR3 =0.50
manager 4: IR4 =0.40
Choose the one with 0.74.

35. To minimize tracking error, add return, and reduce misfit risk, which is most appropriate?
A. Core-Satelitte Approach
B. Completeness Fund
C. Enhance indexing
D. Portable alpha
I choose A, this question have lots of arguements.

36. What is the manager's information ratio given the active risk = 5%, misfit risk = *%.
The IR = -1%/5% = -20%


VII. Equity Investment

37. The university is want to maxmize information ratio, minimize tracking error, and there is instable cash inflow and outflow, the best strategy is
A. enhance indexing
B. enhance indexing with optimization
C. active management
D. enhance indexing with
Choose B.

38. The appropriate strategy for investing in an international market for the university if use an indexing strategy and want to reduce transaction cost:
A. investability rather than breath
B. target float adjustment rather than flexible adjust
C. band float adjustment rather than

这题不确定

39. To reduce rebalance cost and tracking error, the appropriate strategy
A. Indexing with optimization
B.
C. Passive Indexing
D.
Choose C.

40. Which of following statement is false?
Statement1: long-short strategy will
Statement2: if active risk double, the active return will be double
Statement3: portable alpha can be added to indexing portfolio to ....?
Statement4: long on strategy have asymmetric return
I choose Statement 2.


41. Which of follwing weight index will least like to avoid the bias toward small cap?
A. free float
B. price weight
C. value weight
D. equal weight
这题我一直没搞清楚是不想偏向小盘还是不想倾向小盘,bias toward还是against,不记得了?


42. Which strategy should be used given the alpha and tracking error?
A. stock-based enhance indexing strategy for higher tracking error
B. derivative-based enhance indexing strategy due to higher tracking error
C. stock-based enhance indexing strategy for higher information ratio
D. derivative-based enhance indexing strategy for higher information ratio
Choose D, calculate the alpha/TE and find the one with higher IR, stock-based IR is 0.71 and derivatives-bases IR is 0.77.


VIII. Alternative Investment

43. Statement: FOF will have lower management fee, and fund of hedge fund have lock-up period, YES/NO
For manager fee, for lock-up period
NO, YES
题目1和2的主语不同,1是FOF,2是FOHF,FOF是没有lock-up,而FOHF是有lock-up的,google过,证实。。schweser上没有出现过FOHF

44. The fee-schedule say "1.5%-20%" means:
A. fee based on commit fund, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the period when liquidating the asset
B. fee based on asset value, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the account return
C. fee based on commit fund, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the account return
D. fee based on asset value, and 20% incentive fee based on the total asset value when liquidating the asset
Choose B.

45. high water mark provision means?
A. High water mark limit the incentive fee's upside potential.
B. High water mark determine if the incentive fee should be received.
C.
D.
Choose B.

46. Statement1: inflow result popularity and index performance bias to the most pop hedge fund.
     Statement2: transaction cost don't affect rebalancing consideration.
The statements are correct or not?
YES  NO

47. Which of following hedge fund managers can game the sharp ratio?
Should choose the one increase the time frequency from montht to quarter, and have more weight in asset rarely price. Should be manager 1.

48. Statement about manage future: it is a good diversified investment because investors tend to pay a premium for hedge. CTA has storage cost advantage than most individual, institution investors and traders.
A. YES
B. NO, first statement is true but second is false because CTA don't have such advantage
C. NO, because investor tend to receive a premium for hedge
D. NO, both statement is incorrect.
Choose A. 经google查询,CTA是有成本优势


IX. Derivatives

A bank have an $100,000,000 loan with float interest rate at LIBOR+2% for 90 days, effective 52 days later. The bank buy a interest rate put with strike at 5.1% to avoid interest rate decline risk.

49. Given the option premium = 250,000, the opportunity cost 7.86%, calculate the loan's EAR if LIBOR = 5.2% in 52 days
Easy, use 7.86% to calculate the FV of the option premium, combine it with the $100m arrive the initial investment, the option will be no value during the loan period, and in the end the bank have (100m + 100*7.2%*90/360), EAR can be arrived from V0*(1+EAR)^90/365 = V1

50. The bank construct a collar by selling a interest rate call with Strike at 5.3%, calculate the payoff of the collar when LIBOR = 5.2%
payoff = 0

51. The firm have another loan and concerning declining of interest rate, which of following instrument should buy?
A. cap
B. floor
C.
Choose B.

52. The firm buy a call with strike at 5.2% in 143 days, with NP = 250,000,000, the LIBOR = 6%, calculate payoff.
payoff = NP*(LIBOR - 5.2%)*90/360 = 511,111

53. Statement: gamma is important to delta hedge when gamma is small.  The statement is
A. Correct
B. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma = 0
C. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma is large
D. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma is negative
Choose C.

54. Which of following is not important for hedging strategy when a option is purchased.
A. Stock price
B. Strike price
C. Time to maturity
D. Relationship between stock price and option value
Choose B, all the other choice is important factors affect option delta.


X. GIPS
55. A company has a table of period from Dec 2005 to Dec 2007, with value at the end of each quarter without external cash flow, under GIPS

requirement, which return should be report?
A. annual return for 2006 ***% and annual return for 2007  ***%
B. annual return for 2006 ***% and annual return for 2007  ***% (the figure is not correct)
C. cumulative return for 2005-2007 at **%  (the figure is correct)
D. geometric return for 2005-2007 at **% (the figure is correct)
I choose A, annual return is required.

56. Calculate the TWR and modified Dietz Method for April 2008. Given value at begining = 65, CF = 17 at April 26, value after CF = 81, value at the end of April = 85
3.3%   4.4%

57. If trading expense increase, what's the most possible result to the portfolio return performance?
    gross-of-fee  net-of-fee
A. decrease    decrease
B. decrease    the same
C. the same   decrease
D. the same   the same
Choose A

58. Under what circumstance a firm might use IRR to evaluate portfolio performance?
A. Private Equity
B. Fixed Income
C. Hedge fund
D.
Choose A.

59. Firm A acquire firm B, B is formerly in compliance with GIPS, and all B's employees, managers and decision-making process maintain completely after the merge. Shall A present B's past performance result? B's composite have 4 portfolios.
A. YES
B. No, because less than five portfolio
C. No. because the it is unlikely that A's composite will be the same as B's
D. No, becasue the employees, managers and decision-making process remain unchanged.
Choose A.

60. Statement1: Verification process is recommended for all the firm's past compliance history.
     Statement2: We can verify the firm's composite is in compliance with GIPS except for private equity composite.
YES/NO regarding statement 1 and 2
YES    NO


作者: koeln    时间: 2008-6-13 14:50

QUOTE:
以下是引用goldenbin在2008-6-13 12:46:00的发言:

I. ETHICS


1. A guy H is the head of YYY Company manage the account for XXX Govenment's pension plan, he should be responsible for which of the following
A. Trustee
B. all plan beneficiaries
C. XXXX Govenment
D. only the active retirees
Choose B

B

2. Black is managing equity portion small cap and High Tech for XYZ fund (according IPS) and find that recent commodities perfomance well, thus invest a position for parts of his large clients. He say he has no Violate what?
A. Should not deviate IPS
B.
C. should notify his clients
D. should not invest in commodities due to lack of experience
Choose A.

A

3. H investigate Black's investment in Commodities and Black say that's only temporary investment, and will liquidate the position once market come sentiment. He also find Black's recent participate in an High Tech IPO and overscribe the shares, thus ask Black for reason.
Black say I notice the error and thus sell 30,000 shares out of the 50,000 shares. H also say for those account which participant for the IPO should be

credit with short term interest.
The statement regarding the correction of the error is correct/incorrest, the statement for short term interest credit is correct/incorrect?
NO, YES
很多人认为remove at cost,所以第一个是NO,但现实中一般如果IPO是盈利的,应该可以sell at market price

不确定,我选了NO YES

4. H is not satisfy with Black's explanation but allow him to continue manage the account until he finish the evaluation. Considering his good performance, and might lead to great political pressure if fire Black. Did the fund manager violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, should not be affected by policital pressure
C. YES, should suspend Black's management of the account until the complete of his evaluation
D.
Choose C.

我选了B,他留着这个manager不错,但是不从beneficial的角度出发,而从political角度出发时有问题的。

5. H ask Black to sent him a written statement following the CFAI Code, and Black response he will send email stating that he will check trading allocation procedure for clients at the end of each month. And interest will be debited from those account which receive shares allocation incorrectly.
The two statement violate CFAI Code?
NO         YES

我正好跟你选相反,YES/No,不确定。

6. What should H do to comply with code and standard?
A. fire the manager
B. reduce Black's allocation of the fund until compliance requirement meet
C. let Black continously manage the fund as long as achieve good return performance
D.
很多人选Anot sure

选了A


II. ETHICS
7. A company think CFAI Code and Standard and Asset Management Code is enough and they have lots of CFA chartholder and know the Code well, thus they think it's not necessary to fomulate formal compliance requirement for the firm. The firm recently nominate a Chief Compliance Officer.
Violate Code regarding to the firm's compliance policy? the nominating of CCO?
YES     NO

Yes/No.

8. The firm recently hire a manager who have been strictly disciplined by regulator, should the firm disclose?
A. NO
B. YES, should disclose firm's personel/manager's discipline history
C.
D.
I choose B.

B.

9. A guy work in the firm consider use VVV Company for data support, VVV paid for his accomodation $3000, and sent him a gift. The guy is considering using VVV for data support. Did the guy violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, should not accpet cash more than $100
C. YES, should not accpet any gift
D. YES, it can be expected that his independency and objectivity have been affected by the vendor
I choose D.

D.

10. VVV also support the guy's son's soccer team, but the guy don't inform his employer, should the guy disclose the relationship with VVV to his clients and employer?
YES         YES

Yes/Yes.

11. The company consider hedge fund investment, but consider the risk feature, it has minimum portfolio value requirement. Client D, whose risk tolerence is low and don't meet the min value requirement, the company thus don't consider hedge fund investment for him. D claim unfair, does

violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, treat in unfavor manner
C.
Choose A.

A.

12. Some suggest that some private equity has poor liquidity and most portfolio not invest in them, thus should delete them from the composite return. The firm disclose return all in form of net-of-fees. Violate Code and Standard?
YES         NO

Yes/no


III. ECONOMICS FORCASTING
13. Stock market has a high correlation with coincide index, the statement is YES/NO?
A. YES
B. NO, becasue stock market is a leading index
C. NO, because stock market is a lagging index
D. NO, because stock market is a coincide index

B.

14. The ratio of coincide index to leading index will be helpful in determining turning point, YES or NO?
A. YES
B. NO, the ratio of leading index to lagging index
C. NO, the ratio of leading index to coincide index
D. NO, the ratio of coincide index to lagging index
Choose D. 这题schweser上没有

D,这道题一点都不知道,猜的,结果猜错了……

15. Given netural interest rate = 4%, trend and forecast GDP growth 2.6% and 2.2%, long-term and forecast inflation 3.1% and 2.0%, calculate the target short-term interest rate.
Use Taylor rule and arrive the target rate = 4%+0.5*(2.2%-2.6%)+0.5*(3.1%-2.0%) = 4.35%

4.35.

16. Given the two stage FCFE for stock market index, FCFE for 2007 is 60, the growth rate from 2008-2010 is 12.4%, the growth rate after 2010 is 9%, the cost of equity is 12.4% (the same to first stage growth rate, easy for discount the first 3 year FCFE), calculate the value of the index.
Use the two stage DCF model, this content should be tested in level 2.

2264,记不清了,好像是C.

17. Given the Dividend, EPS for 2007 and 2008, given riskfree rate and risk-premium, given ROE, calculate P/E for 2008 under DDM model.
Use D/E calculate payout ratio = 0.3, thus the retent ratio 0.7 apply to ROE and get growth rate, riskfree rate + risk-premium = equity required return, then P/E for 2008 should be payout/(k - g) = 16.3

16.3.

18. The (k - g) componet is actually the
A. Dividend yield
B. P/B
C.
Choose A, P/E = payout/(k-g), k - g = E*payout/P = D/P, which is dividend yield.

A,我选错了。


IV. FIXED INCOME

Given four set of bonds, durations and maturities
BOND 1: Fixed rate Treasure Bond
BOND 2: Zero-Coupon Corporate bonds mature at 5 yrs and 7 yrs
BOND 3: Fixed rate Mortgage Passthrough
BOND 4: Fixed rate Corporate bonds mature at 7 yrs

A Liability with duration 5.8 mature at 5 yrs and 7 yrs, there are no interm cash flows.


19. Bond 3 will subject to contingent claim risk and cap risk?
YES         NO

Yes/Yesembedded cap risk.

20. Which of bond will be best to fund the liability?
BOND 2

21. Which of risk will Mortgage Passthrough have when interest decline?
A. negative convexity
B. credit risk
Definitely A.

22. To change the duration of bond 1 (100 million) from current 6.1 to 5.8, given the CTD bond's duration = 7.4, conversion factor = 0.91, future price = 1000, calculate the N of future to hedge.
Easy, conversion factor*(100m/0.1m)*(MDt - MDp)/MDf = N

这题好像是35吧。

23. which of following statment for fixed income is false?
Statement1: as callable bond's return is non-normal, standard deviation to calculate risk will not work.
Statement2: Semi-variance will be appropriate to measure bond's return
Statement3: shortfall risk calculate the probability that objective return are not meet, but don't specify the dollar amount how worse the result is
Statement4: VAR also don't specify the extent how worse the loss might be
Choose Statement2.

B.

24. How to hedge credit risk if expect the credit spread widen?
A. buy credit defaut swap
B. sell credit defaut swap
C. sell binary call option
D. sell binary put option
Choose A. 这题存在争议,因为CDS一般不对冲credit spread risk,除此之外最好的选项是sell binary call,至少可以赚期权费,但如果spread持续widen,是不能on-going hedge的,CFAI真恶,给个credit spread option/forward直接点不好吗?

Aanalyst forum上很多人争议,不过还是buy比性质更重要。

V. Fixed Income

25. Calcuate the return of the leverage, equity=2m, borrowing=5m, given borrowing rate = *% and portfolio's return =0.3%, for 30-day

26. The repo rate is determined by collateral and position of the borrower?
Collateral    position
YES             YES
google过,position确实影响repo,因为影响借款人的credit risk

唉,错了……

27. Statement regarding scenario analysis, can use it to determine the effect of only one variable change
can result in different result from total return analysis
The statement is:
A. YES
B. NO, because it can't measure one variable change
C.
D. NO, can't result in different result with total return approach.
Choose D.

A,没啥不对的。

28. Given US riskfree rate, and riskfree rate in UK, Japan, German and Singapore, as well as 10-year bond rate, ask the highest domestic return if hedged
Choose Japan, since domestic return = domestic Rf + (bond return - local Rf), just choose the one with highest local risk premium.

Japan

29. Given US riskfree rate, and riskfree rate in UK, Japan, German and Singapore, as well as 10-year bond rate, ask the highest domestic return if unhedge
Choose German, since domestic return = local return + expected currency change% , choose the one with highest of the sum.

Singapore.

30. Given the duration of Japan and Singapore bond, what's the quarterly breakeven yield change for 10-year US bond?
For Japan, For Singapore bond
Choose D, 6.05 and **** (can't remember)

B.
VI. Equity Investment

31. Statement: Enhance return strategy is to generate higher active return, tracking error risk than passive indexing but lower information than active strategy. The statement is ?
A. CORRECT
B. Incorrect for information ratio
C. Incorrect for active return
D. Incorrect for tracking error
Choose B.

32. The firm use Russel 1000 Index as benchmark (with 7% return), the manager use Russel 1000 value as his own benchmark (with 10% return), his portfolio return is 9%, what is the true return and misfit return?
-1%, 3%

33. Statement: Information Breath is the number of independent decision a manager make. if the IB double, the information also double. Is the first and second statement is correct?
YES     NO

Not sure

34. Find the manager with highest information ratio
manager 1: IR1 =0.70
manager 2: IR2 =0.74
manager 3: IR3 =0.50
manager 4: IR4 =0.40
Choose the one with 0.74.

35. To minimize tracking error, add return, and reduce misfit risk, which is most appropriate?
A. Core-Satelitte Approach
B. Completeness Fund
C. Enhance indexing
D. Portable alpha
I choose A, this question have lots of arguements.

Me too

36. What is the manager's information ratio given the active risk = 5%, misfit risk = *%.
The IR = -1%/5% = -20%


VII. Equity Investment

37. The university is want to maxmize information ratio, minimize tracking error, and there is instable cash inflow and outflow, the best strategy is
A. enhance indexing
B. enhance indexing with optimization
C. active management
D. enhance indexing with
Choose B.

38. The appropriate strategy for investing in an international market for the university if use an indexing strategy and want to reduce transaction cost:
A. investability rather than breath
B. target float adjustment rather than flexible adjust
C. band float adjustment rather than

这题不确定

我选了B,感觉,没见过。

39. To reduce rebalance cost and tracking error, the appropriate strategy
A. Indexing with optimization
B.
C. Passive Indexing
D.
Choose C.

40. Which of following statement is false?
Statement1: long-short strategy will
Statement2: if active risk double, the active return will be double
Statement3: portable alpha can be added to indexing portfolio to ....?
Statement4: long on strategy have asymmetric return
I choose Statement 2.


41. Which of follwing weight index will least like to avoid the bias toward small cap?
A. free float
B. price weight
C. value weight
D. equal weight
这题我一直没搞清楚是不想偏向小盘还是不想倾向小盘,bias toward还是against,不记得了?

我选了D
42. Which strategy should be used given the alpha and tracking error?
A. stock-based enhance indexing strategy for higher tracking error
B. derivative-based enhance indexing strategy due to higher tracking error
C. stock-based enhance indexing strategy for higher information ratio
D. derivative-based enhance indexing strategy for higher information ratio
Choose D, calculate the alpha/TE and find the one with higher IR, stock-based IR is 0.71 and derivatives-bases IR is 0.77.

这题选C,肯定不选D,题目里明确说不能投资于derivative的。


VIII. Alternative Investment

43. Statement: FOF will have lower management fee, and fund of hedge fund have lock-up period, YES/NO
For manager fee, for lock-up period
NO, YES
题目12的主语不同,1FOF2FOHFFOF是没有lock-up,而FOHF是有lock-up,google过,证实。。schweser上没有出现过FOHF

Higher fee/no lock-up. Mock上还是Sample上的题吧,两个都是no. Google不会说这么清楚的。

44. The fee-schedule say "1.5%-20%" means:
A. fee based on commit fund, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the period when liquidating the asset
B. fee based on asset value, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the account return
C. fee based on commit fund, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the account return
D. fee based on asset value, and 20% incentive fee based on the total asset value when liquidating the asset
Choose B.

C,两个fee的定义。

45. high water mark provision means?
A. High water mark limit the incentive fee's upside potential.
B. High water mark determine if the incentive fee should be received.
C.
D.
Choose B.

46. Statement1: inflow result popularity and index performance bias to the most pop hedge fund.
     Statement2: transaction cost don't affect rebalancing consideration.
The statements are correct or not?
YES  NO

Yes/no.

47. Which of following hedge fund managers can game the sharp ratio?
Should choose the one increase the time frequency from montht to quarter, and have more weight in asset rarely price. Should be manager 1.

48. Statement about manage future: it is a good diversified investment because investors tend to pay a premium for hedge. CTA has storage cost advantage than most individual, institution investors and traders.
A. YES
B. NO, first statement is true but second is false because CTA don't have such advantage
C. NO, because investor tend to receive a premium for hedge
D. NO, both statement is incorrect.
Choose A.
google查询,CTA是有成本优势

这题我错了,选了B,感觉。
IX. Derivatives

A bank have an $100,000,000 loan with float interest rate at LIBOR+2% for 90 days, effective 52 days later. The bank buy a interest rate put with strike at 5.1% to avoid interest rate decline risk.

49. Given the option premium = 250,000, the opportunity cost 7.86%, calculate the loan's EAR if LIBOR = 5.2% in 52 days
Easy, use 7.86% to calculate the FV of the option premium, combine it with the $100m arrive the initial investment, the option will be no value during the loan period, and in the end the bank have (100m + 100*7.2%*90/360), EAR can be arrived from V0*(1+EAR)^90/365 = V1

50. The bank construct a collar by selling a interest rate call with Strike at 5.3%, calculate the payoff of the collar when LIBOR = 5.2%
payoff = 0

51. The firm have another loan and concerning declining of interest rate, which of following instrument should buy?
A. cap
B. floor
C.
Choose B.

52. The firm buy a call with strike at 5.2% in 143 days, with NP = 250,000,000, the LIBOR = 6%, calculate payoff.
payoff = NP*(LIBOR - 5.2%)*90/360 = 511,111

53. Statement: gamma is important to delta hedge when gamma is small.  The statement is
A. Correct
B. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma = 0
C. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma is large
D. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma is negative
Choose C.

Bgamma0的时候,可以维持两个delta的长期对冲比率不变,因此避免了频繁调整。

54. Which of following is not important for hedging strategy when a option is purchased.
A. Stock price
B. Strike price
C. Time to maturity
D. Relationship between stock price and option value
Choose B, all the other choice is important factors affect option delta.


X. GIPS
55. A company has a table of period from Dec 2005 to Dec 2007, with value at the end of each quarter without external cash flow, under GIPS

requirement, which return should be report?
A. annual return for 2006 ***% and annual return for 2007  ***%
B. annual return for 2006 ***% and annual return for 2007  ***% (the figure is not correct)
C. cumulative return for 2005-2007 at **%  (the figure is correct)
D. geometric return for 2005-2007 at **% (the figure is correct)
I choose A, annual return is required.

56. Calculate the TWR and modified Dietz Method for April 2008. Given value at begining = 65, CF = 17 at April 26, value after CF = 81, value at the end of April = 85
3.3%   4.4%

后一个数字是4.5%whatever

57. If trading expense increase, what's the most possible result to the portfolio return performance?
    gross-of-fee  net-of-fee
A. decrease    decrease
B. decrease    the same
C. the same   decrease
D. the same   the same
Choose A

58. Under what circumstance a firm might use IRR to evaluate portfolio performance?
A. Private Equity
B. Fixed Income
C. Hedge fund
D.
Choose A.

59. Firm A acquire firm B, B is formerly in compliance with GIPS, and all B's employees, managers and decision-making process maintain completely after the merge. Shall A present B's past performance result? B's composite have 4 portfolios.
A. YES
B. No, because less than five portfolio
C. No. because the it is unlikely that A's composite will be the same as B's
D. No, becasue the employees, managers and decision-making process remain unchanged.
Choose A.

60. Statement1: Verification process is recommended for all the firm's past compliance history.
     Statement2: We can verify the firm's composite is in compliance with GIPS except for private equity composite.
YES/NO regarding statement 1 and 2
YES    NO


作者: leemingyi    时间: 2008-6-13 17:04

QUOTE:
以下是引用goldenbin在2008-6-13 12:46:00的发言:

在这里把全部试题贴出来,试题为goldenbin凭印象整理,秩序和选项可能有所不同。。

I. ETHICS


1. A guy H is the head of YYY Company manage the account for XXX Govenment's pension plan, he should be responsible for which of the following
A. Trustee
B. all plan beneficiaries
C. XXXX Govenment
D. only the active retirees
Choose B

B

2. Black is managing equity portion small cap and High Tech for XYZ fund (according IPS) and find that recent commodities perfomance well, thus invest a position for parts of his large clients. He say he has no Violate what?
A. Should not deviate IPS
B.
C. should notify his clients
D. should not invest in commodities due to lack of experience
Choose A.

A

3. H investigate Black's investment in Commodities and Black say that's only temporary investment, and will liquidate the position once market come sentiment. He also find Black's recent participate in an High Tech IPO and overscribe the shares, thus ask Black for reason.
Black say I notice the error and thus sell 30,000 shares out of the 50,000 shares. H also say for those account which participant for the IPO should be

credit with short term interest.
The statement regarding the correction of the error is correct/incorrest, the statement for short term interest credit is correct/incorrect?
NO, YES
很多人认为remove at cost,所以第一个是NO,但现实中一般如果IPO是盈利的,应该可以sell at market price

i choose yes yes , not sure

4. H is not satisfy with Black's explanation but allow him to continue manage the account until he finish the evaluation. Considering his good performance, and might lead to great political pressure if fire Black. Did the fund manager violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, should not be affected by policital pressure
C. YES, should suspend Black's management of the account until the complete of his evaluation
D.
Choose C.

C

5. H ask Black to sent him a written statement following the CFAI Code, and Black response he will send email stating that he will check trading allocation procedure for clients at the end of each month. And interest will be debited from those account which receive shares allocation incorrectly.
The two statement violate CFAI Code?
NO         YES

no yes
  

6. What should H do to comply with code and standard?
A. fire the manager
B. reduce Black's allocation of the fund until compliance requirement meet
C. let Black continously manage the fund as long as achieve good return performance
D.
很多人选A,not sure

i choose B


II. ETHICS
7. A company think CFAI Code and Standard and Asset Management Code is enough and they have lots of CFA chartholder and know the Code well, thus they think it's not necessary to fomulate formal compliance requirement for the firm. The firm recently nominate a Chief Compliance Officer.
Violate Code regarding to the firm's compliance policy? the nominating of CCO?
YES     NO

8. The firm recently hire a manager who have been strictly disciplined by regulator, should the firm disclose?
A. NO
B. YES, should disclose firm's personel/manager's discipline history
C.
D.
I choose B.

9. A guy work in the firm consider use VVV Company for data support, VVV paid for his accomodation $3000, and sent him a gift. The guy is considering using VVV for data support. Did the guy violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, should not accpet cash more than $100
C. YES, should not accpet any gift
D. YES, it can be expected that his independency and objectivity have been affected by the vendor
I choose D.

A

10. VVV also support the guy's son's soccer team, but the guy don't inform his employer, should the guy disclose the relationship with VVV to his clients and employer?
YES         YES

y y

11. The company consider hedge fund investment, but consider the risk feature, it has minimum portfolio value requirement. Client D, whose risk tolerence is low and don't meet the min value requirement, the company thus don't consider hedge fund investment for him. D claim unfair, does

violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, treat in unfavor manner
C.
Choose A.

A

12. Some suggest that some private equity has poor liquidity and most portfolio not invest in them, thus should delete them from the composite return. The firm disclose return all in form of net-of-fees. Violate Code and Standard?
YES         NO

yes  yes   第二句话,应该是net of fees 和 gross of fees,都公布,是Asset management code中规定的,我印象是


III. ECONOMICS FORCASTING
13. Stock market has a high correlation with coincide index, the statement is YES/NO?
A. YES
B. NO, becasue stock market is a leading index
C. NO, because stock market is a lagging index
D. NO, because stock market is a coincide index

C

14. The ratio of coincide index to leading index will be helpful in determining turning point, YES or NO?
A. YES
B. NO, the ratio of leading index to lagging index
C. NO, the ratio of leading index to coincide index
D. NO, the ratio of coincide index to lagging index
Choose D. 这题schweser上没有

书上有好像,好像是A吧,记不清了,大家可以回去查查书。反正我选错了~

15. Given netural interest rate = 4%, trend and forecast GDP growth 2.6% and 2.2%, long-term and forecast inflation 3.1% and 2.0%, calculate the target short-term interest rate.
Use Taylor rule and arrive the target rate = 4%+0.5*(2.2%-2.6%)+0.5*(3.1%-2.0%) = 4.35%

sure

16. Given the two stage FCFE for stock market index, FCFE for 2007 is 60, the growth rate from 2008-2010 is 12.4%, the growth rate after 2010 is 9%, the cost of equity is 12.4% (the same to first stage growth rate, easy for discount the first 3 year FCFE), calculate the value of the index.
Use the two stage DCF model, this content should be tested in level 2.

17. Given the Dividend, EPS for 2007 and 2008, given riskfree rate and risk-premium, given ROE, calculate P/E for 2008 under DDM model.
Use D/E calculate payout ratio = 0.3, thus the retent ratio 0.7 apply to ROE and get growth rate, riskfree rate + risk-premium = equity required return, then P/E for 2008 should be payout/(k - g) = 16.3

18. The (k - g) componet is actually the
A. Dividend yield
B. P/B
C.
Choose A, P/E = payout/(k-g), k - g = E*payout/P = D/P, which is dividend yield.

A,no problem
IV. FIXED INCOME

Given four set of bonds, durations and maturities
BOND 1: Fixed rate Treasure Bond
BOND 2: Zero-Coupon Corporate bonds mature at 5 yrs and 7 yrs
BOND 3: Fixed rate Mortgage Passthrough
BOND 4: Fixed rate Corporate bonds mature at 7 yrs

A Liability with duration 5.8 mature at 5 yrs and 7 yrs, there are no interm cash flows.


19. Bond 3 will subject to contingent claim risk and cap risk?
YES         NO

yes no

20. Which of bond will be best to fund the liability?
BOND 2

bond 2

21. Which of risk will Mortgage Passthrough have when interest decline?
A. negative convexity
B. credit risk
Definitely A.

a

22. To change the duration of bond 1 (100 million) from current 6.1 to 5.8, given the CTD bond's duration = 7.4, conversion factor = 0.91, future price = 1000, calculate the N of future to hedge.
Easy, conversion factor*(100m/0.1m)*(MDt - MDp)/MDf = N

忘了确切的了

23. which of following statment for fixed income is false?
Statement1: as callable bond's return is non-normal, standard deviation to calculate risk will not work.
Statement2: Semi-variance will be appropriate to measure bond's return
Statement3: shortfall risk calculate the probability that objective return are not meet, but don't specify the dollar amount how worse the result is
Statement4: VAR also don't specify the extent how worse the loss might be
Choose Statement2.

2

24. How to hedge credit risk if expect the credit spread widen?
A. buy credit defaut swap
B. sell credit defaut swap
C. sell binary call option
D. sell binary put option
Choose A. 这题存在争议,因为CDS一般不对冲credit spread risk,除此之外最好的选项是sell binary call,至少可以赚期权费,但如果spread持续widen,是不能on-going hedge的,CFAI真恶,给个credit spread option/forward直接点不好吗?

只能选buy吧

V. Fixed Income

25. Calcuate the return of the leverage, equity=2m, borrowing=5m, given borrowing rate = *% and portfolio's return =0.3%, for 30-day

26. The repo rate is determined by collateral and position of the borrower?
Collateral    position
YES             YES
经google过,position确实影响repo,因为影响借款人的credit risk

我不知道,我选的是yes no

27. Statement regarding scenario analysis, can use it to determine the effect of only one variable change
can result in different result from total return analysis
The statement is:
A. YES
B. NO, because it can't measure one variable change
C.
D. NO, can't result in different result with total return approach.
Choose D.

yes,选的A

28. Given US riskfree rate, and riskfree rate in UK, Japan, German and Singapore, as well as 10-year bond rate, ask the highest domestic return if hedged
Choose Japan, since domestic return = domestic Rf + (bond return - local Rf), just choose the one with highest local risk premium.

29. Given US riskfree rate, and riskfree rate in UK, Japan, German and Singapore, as well as 10-year bond rate, ask the highest domestic return if unhedge
Choose German, since domestic return = local return + expected currency change% , choose the one with highest of the sum.

30. Given the duration of Japan and Singapore bond, what's the quarterly breakeven yield change for 10-year US bond?
For Japan, For Singapore bond
Choose D, 6.05 and **** (can't remember)


VI. Equity Investment

31. Statement: Enhance return strategy is to generate higher active return, tracking error risk than passive indexing but lower information than active strategy. The statement is ?
A. CORRECT
B. Incorrect for information ratio
C. Incorrect for active return
D. Incorrect for tracking error
Choose B.

B

32. The firm use Russel 1000 Index as benchmark (with 7% return), the manager use Russel 1000 value as his own benchmark (with 10% return), his portfolio return is 9%, what is the true return and misfit return?
-1%, 3%

me too

33. Statement: Information Breath is the number of independent decision a manager make. if the IB double, the information also double. Is the first and second statement is correct?
YES     NO

me too

34. Find the manager with highest information ratio
manager 1: IR1 =0.70
manager 2: IR2 =0.74
manager 3: IR3 =0.50
manager 4: IR4 =0.40
Choose the one with 0.74.

same

35. To minimize tracking error, add return, and reduce misfit risk, which is most appropriate?
A. Core-Satelitte Approach
B. Completeness Fund
C. Enhance indexing
D. Portable alpha
I choose A, this question have lots of arguements.

A

36. What is the manager's information ratio given the active risk = 5%, misfit risk = *%.
The IR = -1%/5% = -20%


VII. Equity Investment

37. The university is want to maxmize information ratio, minimize tracking error, and there is instable cash inflow and outflow, the best strategy is
A. enhance indexing
B. enhance indexing with optimization
C. active management
D. enhance indexing with
Choose B.

忘了,但好像不是这个

38. The appropriate strategy for investing in an international market for the university if use an indexing strategy and want to reduce transaction cost:
A. investability rather than breath
B. target float adjustment rather than flexible adjust
C. band float adjustment rather than

这题不确定

我觉得的这道题,是考那几个tradeoff 的,不过我也没搞明白

39. To reduce rebalance cost and tracking error, the appropriate strategy
A. Indexing with optimization
B.
C. Passive Indexing
D.
Choose C.

C

40. Which of following statement is false?
Statement1: long-short strategy will
Statement2: if active risk double, the active return will be double
Statement3: portable alpha can be added to indexing portfolio to ....?
Statement4: long on strategy have asymmetric return
I choose Statement 2.

me too


41. Which of follwing weight index will least like to avoid the bias toward small cap?
A. free float
B. price weight
C. value weight
D. equal weight
这题我一直没搞清楚是不想偏向小盘还是不想倾向小盘,bias toward还是against,不记得了?

管他呢,就选D


42. Which strategy should be used given the alpha and tracking error?
A. stock-based enhance indexing strategy for higher tracking error
B. derivative-based enhance indexing strategy due to higher tracking error
C. stock-based enhance indexing strategy for higher information ratio
D. derivative-based enhance indexing strategy for higher information ratio
Choose D, calculate the alpha/TE and find the one with higher IR, stock-based IR is 0.71 and derivatives-bases IR is 0.77.

题上说不能用derivative的


VIII. Alternative Investment

43. Statement: FOF will have lower management fee, and fund of hedge fund have lock-up period, YES/NO
For manager fee, for lock-up period
NO, YES
题目1和2的主语不同,1是FOF,2是FOHF,FOF是没有lock-up,而FOHF是有lock-up的,google过,证实。。schweser上没有出现过FOHF

没那么复杂吧,sample 不一样吗,no no

44. The fee-schedule say "1.5%-20%" means:
A. fee based on commit fund, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the period when liquidating the asset
B. fee based on asset value, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the account return
C. fee based on commit fund, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the account return
D. fee based on asset value, and 20% incentive fee based on the total asset value when liquidating the asset
Choose B.

我咋记得management fee 是基于 commit capital的呢?

45. high water mark provision means?
A. High water mark limit the incentive fee's upside potential.
B. High water mark determine if the incentive fee should be received.
C.
D.
Choose B.

B

46. Statement1: inflow result popularity and index performance bias to the most pop hedge fund.
     Statement2: transaction cost don't affect rebalancing consideration.
The statements are correct or not?
YES  NO

yes no

47. Which of following hedge fund managers can game the sharp ratio?
Should choose the one increase the time frequency from montht to quarter, and have more weight in asset rarely price. Should be manager 1.

same

48. Statement about manage future: it is a good diversified investment because investors tend to pay a premium for hedge. CTA has storage cost advantage than most individual, institution investors and traders.
A. YES
B. NO, first statement is true but second is false because CTA don't have such advantage
C. NO, because investor tend to receive a premium for hedge
D. NO, both statement is incorrect.
Choose A. 经google查询,CTA是有成本优势

看来我是错了,我选的B


IX. Derivatives

A bank have an $100,000,000 loan with float interest rate at LIBOR+2% for 90 days, effective 52 days later. The bank buy a interest rate put with strike at 5.1% to avoid interest rate decline risk.

49. Given the option premium = 250,000, the opportunity cost 7.86%, calculate the loan's EAR if LIBOR = 5.2% in 52 days
Easy, use 7.86% to calculate the FV of the option premium, combine it with the $100m arrive the initial investment, the option will be no value during the loan period, and in the end the bank have (100m + 100*7.2%*90/360), EAR can be arrived from V0*(1+EAR)^90/365 = V1

50. The bank construct a collar by selling a interest rate call with Strike at 5.3%, calculate the payoff of the collar when LIBOR = 5.2%
payoff = 0

me too

51. The firm have another loan and concerning declining of interest rate, which of following instrument should buy?
A. cap
B. floor
C.
Choose B.

B

52. The firm buy a call with strike at 5.2% in 143 days, with NP = 250,000,000, the LIBOR = 6%, calculate payoff.
payoff = NP*(LIBOR - 5.2%)*90/360 = 511,111

费老半天劲,才算出来这个数

53. Statement: gamma is important to delta hedge when gamma is small.  The statement is
A. Correct
B. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma = 0
C. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma is large
D. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma is negative
Choose C.

我选的C

54. Which of following is not important for hedging strategy when a option is purchased.
A. Stock price
B. Strike price
C. Time to maturity
D. Relationship between stock price and option value
Choose B, all the other choice is important factors affect option delta.

B
X. GIPS
55. A company has a table of period from Dec 2005 to Dec 2007, with value at the end of each quarter without external cash flow, under GIPS

requirement, which return should be report?
A. annual return for 2006 ***% and annual return for 2007  ***%
B. annual return for 2006 ***% and annual return for 2007  ***% (the figure is not correct)
C. cumulative return for 2005-2007 at **%  (the figure is correct)
D. geometric return for 2005-2007 at **% (the figure is correct)
I choose A, annual return is required.

A

56. Calculate the TWR and modified Dietz Method for April 2008. Given value at begining = 65, CF = 17 at April 26, value after CF = 81, value at the end of April = 85
3.3%   4.4%

same

57. If trading expense increase, what's the most possible result to the portfolio return performance?
    gross-of-fee  net-of-fee
A. decrease    decrease
B. decrease    the same
C. the same   decrease
D. the same   the same
Choose A

A

58. Under what circumstance a firm might use IRR to evaluate portfolio performance?
A. Private Equity
B. Fixed Income
C. Hedge fund
D.
Choose A.

A

59. Firm A acquire firm B, B is formerly in compliance with GIPS, and all B's employees, managers and decision-making process maintain completely after the merge. Shall A present B's past performance result? B's composite have 4 portfolios.
A. YES
B. No, because less than five portfolio
C. No. because the it is unlikely that A's composite will be the same as B's
D. No, becasue the employees, managers and decision-making process remain unchanged.
Choose A.

A

60. Statement1: Verification process is recommended for all the firm's past compliance history.
     Statement2: We can verify the firm's composite is in compliance with GIPS except for private equity composite.
YES/NO regarding statement 1 and 2
YES    NO

yes no

goldenbin,太牛了,竟然记性这么好啊

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作者: hustgang    时间: 2008-6-13 17:32

强力佩服!!不过有些答案好象不对啊!那个应该是COINCIDE INDICATOR/LAGGING INDICATOR,书上有!

38题选A,因为题目中说了,公司一旦收购邀约被批准,则需要大笔现金,对临流动性要求高,需要PORTFOLIO要具有流动性,A. investability rather than breath就是将流动性的.

41题选D:equal weighted,因为equal weighted will leads the index bias to the small cap stock because the small cap will get the same weight as the others.



作者: hustgang    时间: 2008-6-13 17:36

43题第二部分就是指的FOF,因为FOF就是指很多HEDGE FUND组成的FUNDS.
作者: hustgang    时间: 2008-6-13 17:38

3题应该是remove at cost ,因为需要将IPO所获得的盈利该本应该得的那些客户,而被REMOVED掉的客户可以从BROKERS那里得到利息补偿,这个利息补偿由交易商提供,不能让那些本因该获得股票的客户提供。
作者: hustgang    时间: 2008-6-13 17:43

24题A是最佳答案,期权来对冲风险肯定是LONG方,唯一的一种组合是COVERED CALL,但是其中的short call必须有LONG STOCK 一起!short put只能得到期权费,不可能对冲掉风险


作者: weifanping    时间: 2008-6-15 19:05

47. Which of following hedge fund managers can game the sharp ratio?

有没有人选C的?我觉得要game Sharpe ratio必然使sigma变小,这样time frequency应该是更频繁才会使sigma downside biase,另外两个判断依据一下子想不起来了,考试时想得很明白,自我感觉这是今年碰到的有点小难的题。


作者: caoyust    时间: 2008-6-16 12:56

有人还记得上午算商品的价格的题不,到底是远期高估还是低估啊?当时都没时间检查了。。


作者: lesleypoco    时间: 2008-6-22 22:20

没有
作者: lesleypoco    时间: 2008-6-22 22:22

no


作者: lesleypoco    时间: 2008-6-23 21:35

是的
作者: lesleypoco    时间: 2008-6-23 21:37

谢谢
作者: derek_zeng    时间: 2008-6-27 09:11

1、上午题目太简单,就是时间太紧。 上午的问题许多时候直接就有答案;关键是把握时间啊。我前面废话太多,导致最后3个题没时间做。--不要以为3分就要答3句。
2、 下午的也比较简单,需要理解基本概念。--一般提前40分钟完成。
3、虽然有个别题目notes上没有解释清楚,个人认为看看notes足够应付考试了。
4、3级考试国人相对老外是扬短避长了。
5、我觉得个人及格的可能性大概70%。   (180-30)*70% +180*80%

作者: aladdin213    时间: 2008-7-31 16:54

QUOTE:
以下是引用goldenbin在2008-6-13 12:46:00的发言:

在这里把全部试题贴出来,试题为goldenbin凭印象整理,秩序和选项可能有所不同。。

I. ETHICS


1. A guy H is the head of YYY Company manage the account for XXX Govenment's pension plan, he should be responsible for which of the following
A. Trustee
B. all plan beneficiaries
C. XXXX Govenment
D. only the active retirees
Choose B

2. Black is managing equity portion small cap and High Tech for XYZ fund (according IPS) and find that recent commodities perfomance well, thus invest a position for parts of his large clients. He say he has no Violate what?
A. Should not deviate IPS
B.
C. should notify his clients
D. should not invest in commodities due to lack of experience
Choose A.

3. H investigate Black's investment in Commodities and Black say that's only temporary investment, and will liquidate the position once market come sentiment. He also find Black's recent participate in an High Tech IPO and overscribe the shares, thus ask Black for reason.
Black say I notice the error and thus sell 30,000 shares out of the 50,000 shares. H also say for those account which participant for the IPO should be

credit with short term interest.
The statement regarding the correction of the error is correct/incorrest, the statement for short term interest credit is correct/incorrect?
NO, YES
很多人认为remove at cost,所以第一个是NO,但现实中一般如果IPO是盈利的,应该可以sell at market price

4. H is not satisfy with Black's explanation but allow him to continue manage the account until he finish the evaluation. Considering his good performance, and might lead to great political pressure if fire Black. Did the fund manager violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, should not be affected by policital pressure
C. YES, should suspend Black's management of the account until the complete of his evaluation
D.
Choose C.

5. H ask Black to sent him a written statement following the CFAI Code, and Black response he will send email stating that he will check trading allocation procedure for clients at the end of each month. And interest will be debited from those account which receive shares allocation incorrectly.
The two statement violate CFAI Code?
NO         YES

6. What should H do to comply with code and standard?
A. fire the manager
B. reduce Black's allocation of the fund until compliance requirement meet
C. let Black continously manage the fund as long as achieve good return performance
D.
很多人选A,not sure


II. ETHICS
7. A company think CFAI Code and Standard and Asset Management Code is enough and they have lots of CFA chartholder and know the Code well, thus they think it's not necessary to fomulate formal compliance requirement for the firm. The firm recently nominate a Chief Compliance Officer.
Violate Code regarding to the firm's compliance policy? the nominating of CCO?
YES     NO

8. The firm recently hire a manager who have been strictly disciplined by regulator, should the firm disclose?
A. NO
B. YES, should disclose firm's personel/manager's discipline history
C.
D.
I choose B.

9. A guy work in the firm consider use VVV Company for data support, VVV paid for his accomodation $3000, and sent him a gift. The guy is considering using VVV for data support. Did the guy violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, should not accpet cash more than $100
C. YES, should not accpet any gift
D. YES, it can be expected that his independency and objectivity have been affected by the vendor
I choose D.

10. VVV also support the guy's son's soccer team, but the guy don't inform his employer, should the guy disclose the relationship with VVV to his clients and employer?
YES         YES

11. The company consider hedge fund investment, but consider the risk feature, it has minimum portfolio value requirement. Client D, whose risk tolerence is low and don't meet the min value requirement, the company thus don't consider hedge fund investment for him. D claim unfair, does

violate Code?
A. NO
B. YES, treat in unfavor manner
C.
Choose A.

12. Some suggest that some private equity has poor liquidity and most portfolio not invest in them, thus should delete them from the composite return. The firm disclose return all in form of net-of-fees. Violate Code and Standard?
YES         NO


III. ECONOMICS FORCASTING
13. Stock market has a high correlation with coincide index, the statement is YES/NO?
A. YES
B. NO, becasue stock market is a leading index
C. NO, because stock market is a lagging index
D. NO, because stock market is a coincide index

14. The ratio of coincide index to leading index will be helpful in determining turning point, YES or NO?
A. YES
B. NO, the ratio of leading index to lagging index
C. NO, the ratio of leading index to coincide index
D. NO, the ratio of coincide index to lagging index
Choose D. 这题schweser上没有

15. Given netural interest rate = 4%, trend and forecast GDP growth 2.6% and 2.2%, long-term and forecast inflation 3.1% and 2.0%, calculate the target short-term interest rate.
Use Taylor rule and arrive the target rate = 4%+0.5*(2.2%-2.6%)+0.5*(3.1%-2.0%) = 4.35%

16. Given the two stage FCFE for stock market index, FCFE for 2007 is 60, the growth rate from 2008-2010 is 12.4%, the growth rate after 2010 is 9%, the cost of equity is 12.4% (the same to first stage growth rate, easy for discount the first 3 year FCFE), calculate the value of the index.
Use the two stage DCF model, this content should be tested in level 2.

17. Given the Dividend, EPS for 2007 and 2008, given riskfree rate and risk-premium, given ROE, calculate P/E for 2008 under DDM model.
Use D/E calculate payout ratio = 0.3, thus the retent ratio 0.7 apply to ROE and get growth rate, riskfree rate + risk-premium = equity required return, then P/E for 2008 should be payout/(k - g) = 16.3

18. The (k - g) componet is actually the
A. Dividend yield
B. P/B
C.
Choose A, P/E = payout/(k-g), k - g = E*payout/P = D/P, which is dividend yield.


IV. FIXED INCOME

Given four set of bonds, durations and maturities
BOND 1: Fixed rate Treasure Bond
BOND 2: Zero-Coupon Corporate bonds mature at 5 yrs and 7 yrs
BOND 3: Fixed rate Mortgage Passthrough
BOND 4: Fixed rate Corporate bonds mature at 7 yrs

A Liability with duration 5.8 mature at 5 yrs and 7 yrs, there are no interm cash flows.


19. Bond 3 will subject to contingent claim risk and cap risk?
YES         NO

20. Which of bond will be best to fund the liability?
BOND 2

21. Which of risk will Mortgage Passthrough have when interest decline?
A. negative convexity
B. credit risk
Definitely A.

22. To change the duration of bond 1 (100 million) from current 6.1 to 5.8, given the CTD bond's duration = 7.4, conversion factor = 0.91, future price = 1000, calculate the N of future to hedge.
Easy, conversion factor*(100m/0.1m)*(MDt - MDp)/MDf = N

23. which of following statment for fixed income is false?
Statement1: as callable bond's return is non-normal, standard deviation to calculate risk will not work.
Statement2: Semi-variance will be appropriate to measure bond's return
Statement3: shortfall risk calculate the probability that objective return are not meet, but don't specify the dollar amount how worse the result is
Statement4: VAR also don't specify the extent how worse the loss might be
Choose Statement2.

24. How to hedge credit risk if expect the credit spread widen?
A. buy credit defaut swap
B. sell credit defaut swap
C. sell binary call option
D. sell binary put option
Choose A. 这题存在争议,因为CDS一般不对冲credit spread risk,除此之外最好的选项是sell binary call,至少可以赚期权费,但如果spread持续widen,是不能on-going hedge的,CFAI真恶,给个credit spread option/forward直接点不好吗?

V. Fixed Income

25. Calcuate the return of the leverage, equity=2m, borrowing=5m, given borrowing rate = *% and portfolio's return =0.3%, for 30-day

26. The repo rate is determined by collateral and position of the borrower?
Collateral    position
YES             YES
经google过,position确实影响repo,因为影响借款人的credit risk

27. Statement regarding scenario analysis, can use it to determine the effect of only one variable change
can result in different result from total return analysis
The statement is:
A. YES
B. NO, because it can't measure one variable change
C.
D. NO, can't result in different result with total return approach.
Choose D.

28. Given US riskfree rate, and riskfree rate in UK, Japan, German and Singapore, as well as 10-year bond rate, ask the highest domestic return if hedged
Choose Japan, since domestic return = domestic Rf + (bond return - local Rf), just choose the one with highest local risk premium.

29. Given US riskfree rate, and riskfree rate in UK, Japan, German and Singapore, as well as 10-year bond rate, ask the highest domestic return if unhedge
Choose German, since domestic return = local return + expected currency change% , choose the one with highest of the sum.

30. Given the duration of Japan and Singapore bond, what's the quarterly breakeven yield change for 10-year US bond?
For Japan, For Singapore bond
Choose D, 6.05 and **** (can't remember)


VI. Equity Investment

31. Statement: Enhance return strategy is to generate higher active return, tracking error risk than passive indexing but lower information than active strategy. The statement is ?
A. CORRECT
B. Incorrect for information ratio
C. Incorrect for active return
D. Incorrect for tracking error
Choose B.

32. The firm use Russel 1000 Index as benchmark (with 7% return), the manager use Russel 1000 value as his own benchmark (with 10% return), his portfolio return is 9%, what is the true return and misfit return?
-1%, 3%

33. Statement: Information Breath is the number of independent decision a manager make. if the IB double, the information also double. Is the first and second statement is correct?
YES     NO

34. Find the manager with highest information ratio
manager 1: IR1 =0.70
manager 2: IR2 =0.74
manager 3: IR3 =0.50
manager 4: IR4 =0.40
Choose the one with 0.74.

35. To minimize tracking error, add return, and reduce misfit risk, which is most appropriate?
A. Core-Satelitte Approach
B. Completeness Fund
C. Enhance indexing
D. Portable alpha
I choose A, this question have lots of arguements.

36. What is the manager's information ratio given the active risk = 5%, misfit risk = *%.
The IR = -1%/5% = -20%


VII. Equity Investment

37. The university is want to maxmize information ratio, minimize tracking error, and there is instable cash inflow and outflow, the best strategy is
A. enhance indexing
B. enhance indexing with optimization
C. active management
D. enhance indexing with
Choose B.

38. The appropriate strategy for investing in an international market for the university if use an indexing strategy and want to reduce transaction cost:
A. investability rather than breath
B. target float adjustment rather than flexible adjust
C. band float adjustment rather than

这题不确定

39. To reduce rebalance cost and tracking error, the appropriate strategy
A. Indexing with optimization
B.
C. Passive Indexing
D.
Choose C.

40. Which of following statement is false?
Statement1: long-short strategy will
Statement2: if active risk double, the active return will be double
Statement3: portable alpha can be added to indexing portfolio to ....?
Statement4: long on strategy have asymmetric return
I choose Statement 2.


41. Which of follwing weight index will least like to avoid the bias toward small cap?
A. free float
B. price weight
C. value weight
D. equal weight
这题我一直没搞清楚是不想偏向小盘还是不想倾向小盘,bias toward还是against,不记得了?


42. Which strategy should be used given the alpha and tracking error?
A. stock-based enhance indexing strategy for higher tracking error
B. derivative-based enhance indexing strategy due to higher tracking error
C. stock-based enhance indexing strategy for higher information ratio
D. derivative-based enhance indexing strategy for higher information ratio
Choose D, calculate the alpha/TE and find the one with higher IR, stock-based IR is 0.71 and derivatives-bases IR is 0.77.


VIII. Alternative Investment

43. Statement: FOF will have lower management fee, and fund of hedge fund have lock-up period, YES/NO
For manager fee, for lock-up period
NO, YES
题目1和2的主语不同,1是FOF,2是FOHF,FOF是没有lock-up,而FOHF是有lock-up的,google过,证实。。schweser上没有出现过FOHF

44. The fee-schedule say "1.5%-20%" means:
A. fee based on commit fund, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the period when liquidating the asset
B. fee based on asset value, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the account return
C. fee based on commit fund, and 20% incentive fee based on profit of the account return
D. fee based on asset value, and 20% incentive fee based on the total asset value when liquidating the asset
Choose B.

45. high water mark provision means?
A. High water mark limit the incentive fee's upside potential.
B. High water mark determine if the incentive fee should be received.
C.
D.
Choose B.

46. Statement1: inflow result popularity and index performance bias to the most pop hedge fund.
     Statement2: transaction cost don't affect rebalancing consideration.
The statements are correct or not?
YES  NO

47. Which of following hedge fund managers can game the sharp ratio?
Should choose the one increase the time frequency from montht to quarter, and have more weight in asset rarely price. Should be manager 1.

48. Statement about manage future: it is a good diversified investment because investors tend to pay a premium for hedge. CTA has storage cost advantage than most individual, institution investors and traders.
A. YES
B. NO, first statement is true but second is false because CTA don't have such advantage
C. NO, because investor tend to receive a premium for hedge
D. NO, both statement is incorrect.
Choose A. 经google查询,CTA是有成本优势


IX. Derivatives

A bank have an $100,000,000 loan with float interest rate at LIBOR+2% for 90 days, effective 52 days later. The bank buy a interest rate put with strike at 5.1% to avoid interest rate decline risk.

49. Given the option premium = 250,000, the opportunity cost 7.86%, calculate the loan's EAR if LIBOR = 5.2% in 52 days
Easy, use 7.86% to calculate the FV of the option premium, combine it with the $100m arrive the initial investment, the option will be no value during the loan period, and in the end the bank have (100m + 100*7.2%*90/360), EAR can be arrived from V0*(1+EAR)^90/365 = V1

50. The bank construct a collar by selling a interest rate call with Strike at 5.3%, calculate the payoff of the collar when LIBOR = 5.2%
payoff = 0

51. The firm have another loan and concerning declining of interest rate, which of following instrument should buy?
A. cap
B. floor
C.
Choose B.

52. The firm buy a call with strike at 5.2% in 143 days, with NP = 250,000,000, the LIBOR = 6%, calculate payoff.
payoff = NP*(LIBOR - 5.2%)*90/360 = 511,111

53. Statement: gamma is important to delta hedge when gamma is small.  The statement is
A. Correct
B. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma = 0
C. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma is large
D. Incorrect, gamma is important when gamma is negative
Choose C.

54. Which of following is not important for hedging strategy when a option is purchased.
A. Stock price
B. Strike price
C. Time to maturity
D. Relationship between stock price and option value
Choose B, all the other choice is important factors affect option delta.


X. GIPS
55. A company has a table of period from Dec 2005 to Dec 2007, with value at the end of each quarter without external cash flow, under GIPS

requirement, which return should be report?
A. annual return for 2006 ***% and annual return for 2007  ***%
B. annual return for 2006 ***% and annual return for 2007  ***% (the figure is not correct)
C. cumulative return for 2005-2007 at **%  (the figure is correct)
D. geometric return for 2005-2007 at **% (the figure is correct)
I choose A, annual return is required.

56. Calculate the TWR and modified Dietz Method for April 2008. Given value at begining = 65, CF = 17 at April 26, value after CF = 81, value at the end of April = 85
3.3%   4.4%

57. If trading expense increase, what's the most possible result to the portfolio return performance?
    gross-of-fee  net-of-fee
A. decrease    decrease
B. decrease    the same
C. the same   decrease
D. the same   the same
Choose A

58. Under what circumstance a firm might use IRR to evaluate portfolio performance?
A. Private Equity
B. Fixed Income
C. Hedge fund
D.
Choose A.

59. Firm A acquire firm B, B is formerly in compliance with GIPS, and all B's employees, managers and decision-making process maintain completely after the merge. Shall A present B's past performance result? B's composite have 4 portfolios.
A. YES
B. No, because less than five portfolio
C. No. because the it is unlikely that A's composite will be the same as B's
D. No, becasue the employees, managers and decision-making process remain unchanged.
Choose A.

60. Statement1: Verification process is recommended for all the firm's past compliance history.
     Statement2: We can verify the firm's composite is in compliance with GIPS except for private equity composite.
YES/NO regarding statement 1 and 2
YES    NO

这位仁兄记忆力超强~~~~~不过CFAI说回忆考题是违反BLABLA的。。。。。算了,还是PF一下
作者: wilber    时间: 2008-9-21 23:40

wonderful






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