All Weeks Investment Strategies and Portfolio Analysis Coursera Quiz Answers
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Investment Strategies and Portfolio Analysis Week 01 Coursera Quiz Answers
Quiz 1: Comparing two portfolio returns
Q1. Suppose you invested $8,000 in stock index fund. One month later, your portfolio value is $8,088. What was your one-month return? State your answer in basis points, e.g if your answer is 0.20 percent, write 20 basis points.
Answer: 110 Basic Points
Q2. Suppose you continued to hold onto the stock index fund. Over the subsequent three months, your portfolio value first dipped to $7,920 at the end of the second month, then increased to $8,010 at the end of the third month, and finally climbed to $8,220 at the end of the fourth month. What was your monthly return for each of the three months?
Answer: -2.08%, 1.14%, 2.62%
Q3. Compute your four-month cumulative return. Round your final answer to two digits after the decimal point. State your answer as a percentage, i.e. 1.23% as 1.23
Answer: 2.75%
Q4. What was your annualized arithmetic average return over the four-month period? State your answer as a percentage rounded off to two digits after decimal point, i.e 1.23%. as 1.23
Answer: 8.34%
Q5. What was your geometric average monthly return over the four-month period? State your answer as a percentage rounded off to four digits after decimal point, i.e 1.2345%. as 1.2345
Answer: 0.6800%
Q6. What is the nominal rate of return per year that would give an effective annual return of 8% per year if the nominal rate is compounded quarterly? Round off your answer to four digits after the decimal point and state your answer as a percentage rate (i.e. 1.2345% as 1.2345)
Answer: 7.6800
Q7. What is the nominal rate of return per year that would give an effective annual return of 10% per year if the nominal rate is compounded monthly? Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point and state your answer as a percentage rate (i.e. 1.234% as 1.234)
Answer: 9.570
Q8. What is the effective rate of return per year if the annual rate of return is 9%, compounded continuously? Round off your answer to four digits after the decimal point and state your answer as a percentage rate (i.e. 1.2345)
Please do not include ‘%’ in your answer. Just input the numerical value.
Answer: 9.4174
Q9. Suppose you bought three shares of RAFA on January 1 at a price of $64 per share. You subsequently sold one share at $69 a year later on January 1, and sold the other two shares a year after that for $62 each. At the same time, at the end of every year on December 31, shares of RAFA paid $3 dividend per share. What is your dollar-weighted or internal rate of return on this two-year investment? Round off your answer to four digits after the decimal point and state your answer as a percentage rate (i.e. 1.2345% as 1.2345)
Answer: 6.4500
Q10. Suppose you bought three shares of RAFA on January 1 at a price of $64 per share. You subsequently sold one share at $69 a year later on January 1, and sold the other two shares a year after that for $62 each. At the same time, at the end of every year on December 31, shares of RAFA paid $3 dividend per share. What is your time-weighted return? Round off your answer to four digits after the decimal point and state your answer as a percentage rate (i.e. 1.2345% as 1.2345)
Answer: 7.9301
Q11. Using the monthly return data given above, what is the cumulative return difference
between the portfolio and the benchmark? Round off your answer to four digits after the decimal point and state your answer as a percentage rate (i.e. 1.2345% as 1.2345)
Answer: 0.0275
Q12. Using the monthly return data given above, what is the arithmetic mean excess return? Round off your answer to four digits after the decimal point and state your answer as a percentage rate (i.e. 1.2345% as 1.2345)
Answer: 0.695%
Q13. Using the monthly return data given above, what is the geometric mean excess return? Round off your answer to four digits after the decimal point and state your answer as a percentage rate (i.e. 1.2345% as 1.2345)
Answer: 0.68%
Quiz 2: Revisiting measures of risk
Q1. Using the monthly return data provided above, find the return volatility for portfolio P. Round of to three decimals as a percentage (i.e. 1.234%) (Hint: Use sample deviation)
Answer: 1.980%
Q2. Using the monthly return data provided above, compute the downside semi deviation for portfolio P around its mean. Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point. State your answer as a percentage such as 1.234.
Answer: 2.775%
Week 2
Quiz 1: Risk-adjusted return measures
Q1. Using the return data on portfolios A and B provided in the accompanying spreadsheet, compute the average return for portfolio B. Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point. State your answer as a percentage point, such as 1.234.
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Q2. Using the return data on portfolios A and B provided in the accompanying spreadsheet, compute the return volatility for portfolio A. Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point. State your answer as a percentage point, such as 1.234.
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Q3. What is the Sharpe ratio for portfolio A? Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point, as in 1.234.
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Q4. What is portfolio B’s CAPM alpha? Use portfolio M as the market portfolio proxy. Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal points. State your answer as a percentage point as 1.234.
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Q5. What is portfolio B’s CAPM beta based on your analysis? Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal points. State your answer as a percentage point as 1.234.
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Q6. Compute the Treynor measure for portfolio B. Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point. State your answer as 1.234
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Q7. What is the R-squared for your CAPM model for portfolio A? State your answer as a percentage point such as 10.1
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Q8. Compute the residual risk measure for portfolio A. Round off your final answer to three digits after the decimal point.
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- Compute the appraisal ratio for portfolio B. Round off your final answer to three digits after the decimal point.
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Q10. Compute the information ratio for portfolio B. Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point.
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Q11. Which portfolio is considered more aggressive?
- Portfolio A
- Portfolio B
Q12. Which portfolio is more diversified? In other words, which portfolio has less idiosyncratic risk?
- Portfolio A
- Portfolio B
Q13. Which portfolio outperforms the market?
- Only portfolio A
- Only portfolio B
- Both
- Neither
Q14. If you were to choose one single portfolio to invest all of your wealth in, which one would you choose?
- Portfolio A
- Portfolio B
Q15. Suppose you are already holding a passive index fund, and you are choosing between A and B to add to your portfolio. Which portfolio is more attractive?
- Portfolio A
- Portfolio B
Quiz 2: Active vs. passive investing: Risk-adjusted return measures
Q1. Using the return data on portfolios A and B provided in the accompanying spreadsheet, compute the average return for portfolio B. Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point. State your answer as a percentage point, such as 1.234.
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Q2. Using the return data on portfolios A and B provided in the accompanying spreadsheet, compute the return volatility for portfolio A. Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point.
State your answer as a percentage point, such as 1.234.
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Q3. What is the Sharpe ratio for portfolio A? Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point, as in 1.234.
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Q4. What is portfolio B’s CAPM alpha? Use portfolio M as the market portfolio proxy. Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal points. State your answer as a percentage point as 1.234.
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Q5. What is portfolio A’s CAPM beta based on your analysis? Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal points. State your answer as a percentage point as 1.234.
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Q6. Compute the Treynor measure for portfolio B. Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point. State your answer as 1.234
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Q7. What is the R-squared for your CAPM model for portfolio A? State your answer as a percentage point such as 10.1
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Q8. Compute the residual risk measure for portfolio A. Round off your final answer to three digits after the decimal point.
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Q9. Compute the appraisal ratio for portfolio A. Round off your final answer to three digits after the decimal point.
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Q10. Compute the information ratio for portfolio A. Round off your answer to three digits after the decimal point.
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Q11. Which portfolio is considered more aggressive?
- Portfolio A
- Portfolio B
Q12. Which portfolio is more diversified? In other words, which portfolio has less idiosyncratic risk?
- Portfolio A
- Portfolio B
Q13. Which portfolio outperforms the market?
- Only portfolio A
- Only portfolio B
- Both
- Neither
Q14. If you were to choose one single portfolio to invest all of your wealth in, which one would you choose?
- Portfolio A
- Portfolio B
Q15. Suppose you are already holding a passive index fund, and you are choosing between A and B to add to your portfolio. Which portfolio is more attractive?
- Portfolio A
- Portfolio B
Week 3
Quiz 1: Style Analysis
Q1. Using the Excel spreadsheet provided for you accompanying the ‘Style Analysis’ lecture, conduct a style analysis of the LMVTX fund. Which style benchmark index has the highest loading?
- Small cap
- Mid cap
- Large cap
- Growth
- MidBM
- Value
Q2. Based on your analysis above, what is the alpha of the LMVTX fund?
- 0.05
- 0.04
- 0.06
- 0.08
Q3. Based on your analysis, what percentage of the variation in returns of the LMVTX fund is due to style?
- 12.2%
- 79.2%
- 58.5%
- 43.3%
Q4. Based on your analysis, how would you characterize the LMTVX fund?
- Large cap/Value
- Small cap/Value
- Large cap/Growth
- Small cap/Growth
Q5. What percentage of the variation in returns of the LMTVX fund is due to selection?
- 11%
- 79%
- 57%
- 21%
Quiz 2: Performance attribution
Q1. Consider the following portfolio P that invests in equities, fixed-income securities, and money market securities.
Based on the data given in the table, what is the portfolio’s return? Round off your answer to two digits after the decimal point. State your answer as a percentage, i.e. 1.23
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Q2. Based on the data in the table in question 1, what is the return on the benchmark portfolio?
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Q3. Which of the following statements is correct?
- Portfolio P has underperformed its benchmark.
- Portfolio P has underweighted its equity allocation relative its benchmark.
- Portfolio P has underweighted its fixed income allocation relative to the benchmark.
- Portfolio P has overweighted its money market allocation relative to the benchmark.
Q4. What is contribution of asset allocation to relative performance? Round off your answer to two digits after the decimal point. State your answer as a percentage, such as 1.23.
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Q5. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
- The equity security selection of portfolio P has outperformed that of the benchmark.
- The fixed income security selection of portfolio P has outperformed that of the benchmark.
- The money market selection of portfolio P has outperformed that of the benchmark.
- The return of the fixed income securities in portfolio P is 1.98%
Q6. What is the contribution of security selection to the relative performance of portfolio P? Round off your answer to two digits after the decimal. State your answer as a percentage, such as 1.23.
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Quiz 3: Performance evaluation: Style analysis and performance attribution
Q1. Using the Excel spreadsheet provided for you accompanying the ‘Style Analysis’ lecture, conduct a style analysis of the PCBAX fund. Which style benchmark index has the highest loading?
- Small cap
- Mid cap
- Large cap
- Growth
- Mid BM
- Value
Q2. Based on your analysis above, what is the alpha of the PCBAX fund?
- 0.00
- 0.14
- 0.05
- 0.03
Q3. Based on your analysis, what percentage of the variation in returns of the PCBAX fund is due to style?
- 14.4%
- 88%
- 43.3%
- 58.75%
Q4. Based on your analysis, how would you characterize the PCBAX fund?
- Large cap/Value
- Medium cap/Value
- Small cap/Value
- Large cap/Growth
- Medium cap/Growth
- Small cap/Growth
Q5. What percentage of the variation in returns of the PCBAX fund is due to selection?
- 11%
- 58.75%
- 41.25%
- 5%
Q6. You are a global equity manager assigned to select stocks from a universe of large stocks throughout the world. You will be evaluated by comparing your returns to the return on the MSCI World Market Portfolio. You are free to hold stocks from various countries in whatever proportions you deem fit. The following table gives the results of your performance and the MSCI index:
What is your total portfolio return? Round off your answer to two digits after the decimal point. State your answer as a percentage, i.e. 1.23
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Q7. Based on the data in the table in the previous question, what is the return on the benchmark portfolio?
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Q8. What was the return difference between your portfolio and the MSCI World Market portfolio?
- 2.25%
- 2.5%
- 2.75%
- -0.25%
Q9. Which of the following statements is correct?
- You have underweighted UK in your portfolio.
- You have underweighted Germany in your portfolio.
- You have underweighted the US in your portfolio.
- You have overweighted Japan in your portfolio.
Q10. What is the contribution of asset (country) allocation to your relative performanc? Round off your answer to two digits after the decimal point. State your answer as a percentage, such as 1.23.
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Q11. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
- Your security selection in UK has underperformed that of the benchmark.
- Your security selection in Germany has underperformed that of the benchmark.
- Your security selection in the US has outperformed that of the benchmark.
- Your security selection in Japan has outperformed that of the benchmark.
Q12. What is the contribution of security selection to your relative performance? Round off your answer to two digits after the decimal. State your answer as a percentage, such as 1.23.
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