Level III "Notes, Flash Cards, Formula & Cheat Sheets" PDF or Word Docs

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About 5 days before the June exam someone posted a great cheat sheet word doc for L2. I wish I had those notes prior to June.
Just started to study for L3 any of the recent L3 conquerors have any notes, formula & cheat sheets that are word docs or pdf they could share.
 
What about past exam q’s .? Some af’ers have mentioned they did 2000 to 2009 exam q’s practice . Where are they available from?
 
They are there on the Institute’s website.
We also have them all merged on PDF files. Give me time to get over the Band 9. I’ll post the link to past exams 2000 to 2009 in a few days.
 
I have some great notes for all 3 levels… however they are mostly in Microsoft OneNote format. (it’s a note taking program included in Microsoft Office)
Not sure if you have OneNote but if so shoot me an e-mail and I’d be glad to send them to you.
r.a.c.hawkins at g mail . com
 
I used this for Behavioural Biases. I found there were too many terms floating around Schweser and CFAI. I’m copying and pasting because i don’t want to go through the trouble to e-mail. This isn’t earth shattering, it’s a summarizing list that i developed myself and you won’t know what the terms are if you haven’t read through, but i found it an effective central location to track them as i went, i have a pretty good summary of ethics and assets manager code, if i can find it i’ll post.
Behavioural Biases
Heuristic One: Availability
Representativeness
• Winner-loser effect (past winners become today’s losers)
• Gambler’s fallacy – think law of averages apply to small samples (i.e. it’s ‘due’)
Overconfidence
Anchoring-and-adjustment (Conservatism)
• React too conservatively to new information (with respect to original forecasts)
Aversion to ambiguity
Heuristic Two: Frame Dependence
Loss Aversion – ‘get evenitis’
Mental accounting (using separate mental accounts)
Hedonic editing – framing things in a ‘better’ way
• House-money effect - more likely to gamble when up
• Prefer dividends as ‘silver lining’ (frame editing)
Self-control – controlling emotions
• “Don’t dip into capital” – OK to spend dividends … another type of hedonic editing
Regret
Money Illusion – people usually consider nominal, not REAL returns
Heuristic Three: Inefficient Markets
Myopic loss aversion – reluctance to hold stocks due to loss (typically a result of too short horizon), also due to too frequent monitoring
Heuristic Biases and Portfolio Selection:
Optimism
Overconfidence – excess trading, think they have higher skills, suffer from illusion of control
Failure to diversify – primitive understand of diversification requirements
Naïve diversification – 1/n diversification, 50/50 stock bonds
Home bias
Biases in defined contribution plans:
Bounded rationality – limits to efficient decision-making (heuristics)
Status quo bias – do nothing or remain with original choices
Myopic loss aversion – try to avoid s/t loss despite long horizon of plan
1/n diversification
Endorsement effect
Chronic Inefficiencies:
Process vs Outcome
Convoy Behvaiour
Bayesian Rigidity
Price Target Revision
Ebullience cycle
Psychological Traps in forecasting:
Anchoring trap, status quo trap, confirming evidence trap, overconfidence trap, the prudence trap, the recallability trap
 
CF_AHHHHHHHHH Wrote:
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> I have some great notes for all 3 levels…
> however they are mostly in Microsoft OneNote
> format. (it’s a note taking program included in
> Microsoft Office)
>
> Not sure if you have OneNote but if so shoot me an
> e-mail and I’d be glad to send them to you.
>
> r.a.c.hawkins at g mail . com
Thanks for your generosity, I’m sure everyone here at AF appreciates it!
 
GreenTomato Wrote:
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> CF_AHHHHHHHHH Wrote:
> ————————————————–
> —–
> > I have some great notes for all 3 levels…
> > however they are mostly in Microsoft OneNote
> > format. (it’s a note taking program included in
> > Microsoft Office)
> >
> > Not sure if you have OneNote but if so shoot me
> an
> > e-mail and I’d be glad to send them to you.
> >
> > r.a.c.hawkins at g mail . com
>
>
> Thanks for your generosity, I’m sure everyone here
> at AF appreciates it!
Hey, no problem. I’ve sent them out to several people at this point. How about y’all share them around moving forward. I’ve gotten about a million e-mails haha.
I hope they help you guys.
 
ULTIMATE Link for preparing………
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I do not condone the use of copyright materials and people should remember the ethics pledge they took in regards to copyright laws and buying/dsitributing pirated material but this site can provide you with legitimate info as well. i am not promoting this iste in anyway but someone sent me the link and it seems it can be a useful resource for candidates:
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Re: ULTIMATE Link for preparing………
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Can someone please send the notes to me…….krunal13aug at gmail . com
Thanks so much.
Krunal
 
As somone who recently passed L3, I would caution anyone from using someone else’s notes. Everyone learns this stuff differently. I created formula sheets for each level which I drilled daily for the last couple of months leading up to the exams. Worked very well. One of the biggest learning tools was actually creating the sheets to begin with. If you skip this part, you’re missing the point. There are no short cuts to the CFA.
 
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