List the often tested topics HERE

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List your often tested topics BELOW. I got this list from Analyst ninja –by the way I wish I had done the mocks on the analystninja website last year as I have noticed that some topics are tested every year or every other year. I believe if one masters these areas, you have would have nailed at least 40% of the exam: )
  1. Pension Fund Institutions
  2. Cobb-Douglass
  3. Fed Model / Yardeni / Tobin’s Q
  4. Grinold-Kroner Model
  5. Taylor rule
  6. Solving corner portfolios
  7. Adjust Beta/Duration with futures
  8. Implementation shortfall
  9. Performance attribution
  10. Individuals: Identifying risk tolerance, stating return objective, computing return rate etc
 
i would add :
Capital Market expectations: Singer Terhaar approach
Individuals: liquidity requirement
 
  1. Breakeven analysis
  2. Rebalancing - CPPI, Buy and Hold ; constant mix
  3. Pension fund linking Assets liability management -eg if you have DPF that pays future wageincreases, you need to real rate bonds; higher nominal bonds % if benefits are not indexed for inflation.
 
I notice Grinold-Kroner model or Cobb-Douglass are in every AM paper – from 2007 or so to date. Funny ha!
 
Calculating return objectives - which despite seeming super easy they always find ways to trip me up.
Gift and Bequest calcs
Core capital
Value At Risk calcs and questions
 
SWAPS.
Focus on the not most tested too.. They threw an entire small section on Alternative Investment in an item set question. Still those are important and CFA loves to test them.
 
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