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Hi @David Harper CFA FRM , I am very sorry that I am disturbing you as of this crucial moment. However reading more about the formula of Alpha has confused me to greater lengths than it should have. Hence I wanted a conceptual clarity on the formula of Alpha. 1. Now as I understand it we...

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Learning objectives: Compare illiquidity risk premiums across and within asset categories. Evaluate portfolio choice decisions on the inclusion of illiquid assets. Questions: 708.1. In order to identify the presence of illiquidity risk premium(s), Andrew Ang references data presented by Antti...

Learning objectives: Evaluate the characteristics of illiquid markets. Examine the relationship between market imperfections and illiquidity. Assess the impact of biases on reported returns for illiquid assets. Describe the unsmoothing of returns and its properties. Questions: 707.1. According...

Learning objectives: Explain how to measure time-varying factor exposures and their use in style analysis. Describe issues that arise when measuring alphas for nonlinear strategies. Compare the volatility anomaly and beta anomaly, and analyze evidence of each anomaly. Describe potential...

Learning objectives: Describe Grinold’s fundamental law of active management, including its assumptions and limitations, and calculate the information ratio using this law. Apply a factor regression to construct a benchmark with multiple factors, measure a portfolio’s sensitivity to those...

Learning objectives: Describe and evaluate the low-risk anomaly of asset returns. Define and calculate alpha, tracking error, the information ratio, and the Sharpe ratio. Explain the impact of benchmark choice on alpha, and describe characteristics of an effective benchmark to measure alpha...

Learning objectives: Assess methods of mitigating volatility risk in a portfolio, and describe challenges that arise when managing volatility risk. Explain how dynamic risk factors can be used in a multifactor model of asset returns, using the Fama-French model as an example. Compare value and...

Learning objectives: Describe the process of value investing, and explain reasons why a value premium may exist [BT note: this objective is somewhat out of sequence; the next practice question will review the value premium ]. Explain how different macroeconomic risk factors, including economic...

Learning objectives: Describe multifactor models, and compare and contrast multifactor models to the CAPM. Explain how stochastic discount factors are created and apply them in the valuation of assets. Describe efficient market theory and explain how markets can be inefficient. Questions...

Learning objectives: Provide examples of factors that impact asset prices, and explain the theory of factor risk premiums. Describe the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) including its assumptions, and explain how factor risk is addressed in the CAPM. Explain implications of using the CAPM to...