Friday Five – 10 June – 5 Questions in 5 Minutes
Last updated on September 25th, 2019 at 4:37 am
Welcome to this week’s Friday Five – 5 Questions in 5 Minutes Every Friday
What’s this all about?
It’s a bit of Friday Fun where we provide you with 5 questions relevant to a mix of CII exams. The challenge is for you to answer them in 5 minutes. Answers at the bottom of the page.
Questions
IMPORTANT! These questions relate to examinable tax year 2015/16, examinable by the CII until 31 August 2016. They do not relate to tax year 2016/17 which is only examinable by the CII from 1 September 2016.
- What must be included within a Client Agreement? – tick all that apply
- Regulation by the FCA
- The IFA’s contact details
- Any restrictions
- Risk warnings
- A savings account pays a nominal rate of interest at 6%, this is compounded monthly. What is the effective rate of interest?
- 6.72%
- 6.47%
- 6.17%
- 6.62%
- Under the identification rules used for calculating CGT on shares of the same type and class acquired at different times, how are shares grouped? Tick all that apply
- Acquisitions within the following 90 days
- Acquisitions on the same day
- Acquisitions arising from a rights issue
- Acquisitions in the share pool
- Why might an employer decide to provide death in service benefits through a separate insured scheme as opposed to through a defined benefit scheme?
- To maintain death in service benefits without draining the fund.
- To treat the death in service benefits as an allowable expense.
- If the employees were all below 45.
- As the defined benefit scheme is fairly large.
- An investor buys £2,000 worth of 6% Treasury Stock 2016 priced at £106.16. What is the flat yield?
- 17.6%
- 7.6%
- 5.66%
- 5.65%
Answers
- ACD – See R01 Study Text, Chp 7, Section B3C
Grab our taster mock exam paper for CII R01. Click here to download.
- C – See R02 Study Text, Chp 4, Section A3
Grab our taster mock exam paper for CII R02. Click here to download.
- BD – See R03 Study Text, Chp 3, Section G1
Grab our taster mock exam paper for CII R03. Click here to download.
- A – See R04 Study Text, Chp 4.1, Section C4C
Grab our taster mock exam paper for CII R04. Click here to download.
- D – See J12 Study Text, Chp 2, Section G2A
Grab our taster mock exam paper for CII J12. Click here to download.
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