A pension portfolio manager is about to upgrade his performance calculation software. Currently, his performance software will only calculate his performance on a quarterly basis. The quarterly performance numbers calculated on a money-weigh ted rate-of- return basis for the year 2017 are shown below. The portfolio benchmark has annual return of 4.2 percent and the market index has a return of 3.4 percent.            QUATER                 RETURN             1                               5.35%             2                               -2.34%             3                               4.62%             4                               1.25%   What is the return due to the portfolio manager’s style

Which one of the following statements concerning the primary market is correct?

Consider an US-based foundation with spending rate of 3 percent and cost of earning investment returns has averaged 50 basis points annually. The asset allocation and the set of capital market expectations are shown below.  The expected long-term inflation rate is 2.5 percent. Table 3 Capital Market Expectations Asset class E(ri) si Correlations A B C D A US equities 9% 18% 1       B Ex-US equities 8 14 0.60 1     C US bonds 4 8 0.30 0.20 1   D Real estate 1 7 0.50 0.40 0.10 1    Table 4 Corner portfolios Portfolio E(rp) sp Sp wi A B C D 1 9.0% 18.0% 0.39 100% 0% 0% 0% 2 7.9 16.7 0.35 65 35 0 0 3 7.5 15.4 0.38 37 53 0 10 4 5.0 12.4 0.36 0 25 43 32 5 4.6 10.1 0.32 0 11 55 34 What is the foundation return requirement in percent?

Assume that a manager has $10 million of funds to invest. The manager then borrows an additional $100 million at 4 percent interest and invests all of the funds at a 5 percent rate of return. What is the resulting rate of return of the portfolio?

Which of the following is the fourth statistical moment of the distribution and measures how much of the distribution is present in its tails?

Which of the following is the fourth statistical moment of the distribution and measures how much of the distribution is present in its tails?

Referring to the the Q-IPS Stephenson’s time horizon is best characterized as

A nuclear medicine technologist received an absorbed dose of 1.8 mGy. Assume that 1 mGy came from beta radiation and the remainder came from alpha particles. What is the technologist’s equivalent dose?

Which of the following statements is correct, if Sortino ratio for the index is 0.50?

A set of numeric dose limits that are based on calculations of the various risks of cancer and genetic effects  to tissues or organs exposed to radiation defines: