1.
Which of these is a measure summarizing the overall past performance of an investment?
Average return | |
Dollar return | |
Market return | |
Percentage return |
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Which of the following is the reward investors require for taking risk?
Market risk premium | |
Required return | |
Risk-free rate | |
Risk premium |
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3.
Which of the following is defined as the volatility of an investment, which includes firm specific risk as well as market risk?
Market risk | |
Total risk | |
Diversifiable risk | |
Standard deviation |
4.
Which of these is the set of probabilities for all possible occurrences?
Market probabilities | |
Probability distribution | |
Probability | |
Stock market bubble |
5.
Which of these is the investor”s combination of securities that achieves the highest expected return for a given risk level?
Efficient portfolio | |
Total portfolio | |
Optimal portfolio | |
Modern portfolio |
6.
To find the percentage return of an investment:
divide the dollar return by the investment”s value at the beginning of the period. | |
multiply the dollar return by the investment”s value at the beginning of the period. | |
multiply the dollar return by the investment”s value at the end of the period. | |
divide the dollar return by the investment”s value at the end of the period. |
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To find the percentage return of an investment:
divide the dollar return by the investment”s value at the beginning of the period. | |
multiply the dollar return by the investment”s value at the beginning of the period. | |
multiply the dollar return by the investment”s value at the end of the period. | |
divide the dollar return by the investment”s value at the end of the period. |
7.
Which of the following is an index that tracks 500 companies, which allows for a great deal of diversification?
Fortune 500 | |
Wall Street Journal | |
Nasdaq | |
S&P 500 |
8.
Which of these is the line on a graph of return and risk (standard deviation) from the risk-free rate through the market portfolio?
Efficient market line | |
Capital market line | |
Efficient market hypothesis | |
Capital asset pricing line |
9.
Which of the following is a model that includes an equation that relates a stock”s required return to an appropriate risk premium?
Efficient markets | |
Beta | |
Behavioral finance | |
Asset pricing |
10.
Which of the following is data that includes past stock prices and volume, financial statements, corporate news, analyst opinions, etc.?
Generally accepted accounting principles | |
Public information | |
Privately held information | |
Audited financial statements |
11.
Which of the following are the stocks of small companies that are priced below $1 per share?
Penny stocks | |
Hedge fund stocks | |
Bargain stocks | |
Stock market bubble stocks |
12.
TechNo stock was $25 per share at the end of last year. Since then, it paid a $1.50 per share dividend last year. The stock price is currently $23. If you owned 300 shares of TechNo, what was your percent return?
6 percent | |
-2 percent | |
6.5 percent | |
-8 percent |
13.
Which of the following is another term for market risk?
Modern portfolio risk | |
Firm specific risk | |
Total risk | |
Nondiversifiable risk |
14.
Investor enthusiasm causes an inflated bull market that drives prices too high, ending in a dramatic collapse in prices is known as:
privately held information. | |
efficient market. | |
behavior finance. | |
stock market bubble. |
15.
Which of the following is defined as the portion of total risk that is attributable to firm or industry factors and can be reduced through diversification?
Modern portfolio risk | |
Firm specific risk | |
Market risk | |
Total risk |
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Which of the following is a true statement?
If a firm takes on riskier new projects over time, the firm itself will become less risky. | |
Firms can quite possibly change their stocks” risk level by substantially changing their business. | |
The risk and return that a firm experienced in the past is also the risk level for its future. | |
If a firm takes on less risky new projects over time, the firm itself will become more risky. |
17.
Which of these is similar to the Capital Market Line, except that risk is characterized by beta instead of standard deviation?
Security market line | |
Probability market line | |
Stock market line | |
Market risk line |
18.
Which of these includes any capital gain (or loss) that occurred as well as any income that you received from a specific investment?
Portfolio | |
Average return | |
Market return | |
Dollar return |
19.
In theory, which of these is a combination of securities that places the portfolio on the efficient frontier and on a line tangent from the risk-free rate?
Efficient market | |
Market portfolio | |
Stock market bubble | |
Probability distribution |
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20.
We commonly measure the risk-return relationship using which of the following?
Expected returns | |
Correlation coefficient | |
Coefficient of variation | |
Standard deviation |
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