FREE IAR Investment Strategies & Portfolio Management Questions and Answers

Question 1

Which investment strategy focuses on buying undervalued securities with strong fundamentals?

Accepted Answer

Value investing

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Momentum investing

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Growth investing

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Index investing

Question 2

What is the primary goal of asset allocation in portfolio management?

Accepted Answer

Reducing risk through diversification

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Maximizing short-term gains

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Investing only in high-growth sectors

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Eliminating all portfolio volatility

Question 3

Which metric measures a portfolio's risk-adjusted return relative to a benchmark?

Accepted Answer

Sharpe Ratio

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Alpha

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Beta

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Standard deviation

Question 4

What does 'rebalancing' a portfolio involve?

Accepted Answer

Adjusting holdings to maintain target asset allocation

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Selling all investments annually

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Shifting entirely to cash during market downturns

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Investing only in top-performing sectors

Question 5

Which strategy is commonly used to reduce risk in a concentrated stock position?

Accepted Answer

Selling call options

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Leveraging margin loans

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Buying additional shares

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Ignoring short-term volatility

Question 6

What is the 'efficient frontier' in Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT)?

Accepted Answer

The set of portfolios with maximum diversification

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A list of the highest-yielding stocks

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A bond laddering strategy

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A technical analysis indicator

Question 7

Which factor is NOT part of the Fama-French Three-Factor Model?

Accepted Answer

Momentum

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Market risk

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Size (small vs. large caps)

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Value (high vs. low book-to-market)

Question 8

What is a key advantage of dollar-cost averaging (DCA)?

Accepted Answer

Minimizing emotional investing and lowering average cost

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Guaranteeing higher returns than lump-sum investing

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Eliminating all investment risk

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Requiring no long-term commitment

Question 9

Which type of risk can NOT be diversified away in a portfolio?

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Systematic (market) risk

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Company-specific risk

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Industry risk

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Liquidity risk