CMFAS Study Guide 2026

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📋 CMFAS Exam Format at a Glance

100
Questions
120 min
Time Limit
75.00%
Passing Score

📚 CMFAS Topics to Study (39)

✍️ Sample CMFAS Questions & Answers

1. What is the maximum civil penalty MAS can impose for market misconduct?
✓ $2,000,000

Under the civil penalty regime of the SFA, MAS can seek civil penalties up to $2,000,000 for market misconduct offences.

2. What is the prohibition against market timing abuse in financial advisory?
✓ Advisers must not exploit time zone differences to gain unfair advantages in fund trading

Market timing abuse involves exploiting stale pricing or time zone differences in fund NAV calculations for unfair gains, which is prohibited.

3. What is a structured deposit?
✓ A deposit whose return is linked to the performance of an underlying asset

A structured deposit has returns linked to the performance of underlying financial instruments like equities, interest rates, or currencies.

4. What does 'ex-dividend' mean?
✓ The stock trades without entitlement to the declared dividend

When a stock goes ex-dividend, buyers after that date will not receive the declared dividend. The dividend goes to whoever held the shares before the ex-date.

5. Who is required to pass the CMFAS examinations?
✓ Representatives of licensed financial institutions

Representatives who carry out regulated activities on behalf of licensed financial institutions must pass the relevant CMFAS modules.

6. What is a convertible term policy?
✓ A term policy that can be converted to a permanent policy without a medical exam

A convertible term policy gives the policyholder the option to convert it to a permanent (whole life or endowment) policy without needing to prove insurability.

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