Friday Five Focus on Investments – 5 November – 5 Questions in 5 Minutes
Friday Five Focus on Investments – 5 Questions in 5 Minutes Every Friday
What’s this all about?
Each week, we ask questions relating to one of these topics: Investments, Taxation, Pensions, Protection, or Regulation. This week, our Friday Five is relevant to Investments; this is useful as you prepare for any of the CII’s R02, AF4, or J10 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 2021/22, examinable by the CII until 31 August 2022.
- A Future is an exchange traded forward contract. What contract specifications does the exchange standardise? Tick all that apply.
- Charges relating to non-delivery of commodity and financial asset
- Negotiation terms for the forward contract
- Delivery date of commodity and financial asset
- Delivery price of commodity and financial asset
- Stefan bought £1,000 nominal value of Treasury 7% 2026. What interest payment can he expect to receive?
- £70 every year
- £5.80 every month
- £35 every 6 months
- £23.33 quarterly
- If interest is payable at more frequent intervals (than annually), how would the effective rate of interest be different to the nominal rate of interest?
- The effective rate reduces.
- The nominal rate would be higher.
- The effective rate would be higher.
- There would be no difference.
- The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) was developed by Eugene Fama in the 1960s. He believed that:
- security price movements are random and therefore predictable.
- it should be impossible to achieve returns in excess of average market returns consistently through stock selection or market timing.
- security prices reflect some available information in the market and prices slowly adjust to new information.
- an investor can only obtain higher than average returns through the skill and expertise of buying low risk investments.
- The Standard & Poor’s Composite is an index of companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. How many companies are listed?
- 100
- 250
- 500
- 750
Answers
- CD – See R02 Study Text, Chp 8
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- C – See R02 Study Text, Chp 1
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- C – See R02 Study Text, Chp 5
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- B – See J10 Study Text, Chp 10
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- C – See J10 Study Text, Chp 11
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