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CAIA - Equations
Probability weighted standard dev...,
Expected utility,
Expected utility with higher moments
128  cards
CAIA - Ethics - Standards I, II, and III
What is standard 1 of the cfa sta...,
What area does standard 1 of the ...,
What is the purpose of standard 1...
90  cards
CAIA - Ethics - Standards IV, V and VI
Standard iv covers 3 areas 123,
Members and candidates are are no...,
Clients should should not take pr...
37  cards
CAIA - 01 - Asset Allocation Processes and the Mean-Variance Model
Whether asset allocation or secur...,
There are 3 key questions regardi...,
Most studies find that ___ ___ of...
68  cards
CAIA - 02 - Tactical AA, Mean-Variance Ext, Risk Budg, Risk Par and Factor Investing
___ ___ ___ is an active approach...,
According to the ___ ___ of ___ _...,
What is the equation for informat...
84  cards
CAIA - 03 - The Endowment Model
An ___ is a donated pool of capit...,
The nominal value of an initial d...,
A ___ is a non profit organizatio...
31  cards
CAIA - 04 - Pension Fund Portfolio Management
What are the advantages of a pens...,
There are 3 types of pension plan...,
A ___ ___ plan is similar to a tr...
68  cards
CAIA - 05 - Sovereign Wealth Funds
Swfs initial allocations are gene...,
The common sources of wealth for ...,
The ___ of ___ is a record of a c...
65  cards
CAIA - 06 - Family Offices
There are two types of family off...,
The cost of running a single fami...,
A key benefit to family offices i...
64  cards
CAIA - 7 - Private Equity Market Structure
The private equity market can be ...,
The ___ pe market is dominated by...,
The ___ private equity market com...
99  cards
CAIA - 08 - Private Equity Benchmarking
Benchmarks serve a number of need...,
There are a number of steps invol...,
Pe is essentially an ___ ______ w...
47  cards
CAIA - 09 - Fund Manager Selection And Monitoring
The ___ phase takes place at the ...,
There are 2 issues related to sel...,
A solution to access top quartile...
41  cards
CAIA - 10 - Private Equity Operational Due Diligence
Operational risk is assessed duri...,
Due diligence can be divided into...,
There are 5 key benefits to condu...
43  cards
CAIA - 11 - Private Equity Investment Process and Portfolio Management Set
___ ______ which was pioneered by...,
Applying mpt to pe is challenging...,
Private equity has 3 key performa...
41  cards
CAIA- 12 - Measuring Private Equity Risk
There are 4 key risks associated ...,
Market risk refers to the economi...,
___ risk refers to the risk that ...
23  cards
CAIA - 13 - Management of Liquidity
Modeling cash flows of pe investm...,
___ ___is illiquidity that is inh...,
___ ___is illiquidity resulting f...
20  cards
CAIA - 14 - Real Estate as an Investment
The 5 advantages of real estate a...,
There are 3 disadvantages in real...,
Two difference between a long ter...
43  cards
CAIA - 15 - Real Estate Indices and Unsmoothing Techniques
___ ___exists when real estate tr...,
The two primary approaches to rea...,
Reported asset prices may have a ...
52  cards
CAIA - 16 - Investment Styles, Portfolio Allocation And Real Estate Derivatives
___ ___ is the risk in a change i...,
Characteristics of core real esta...,
___ refers to changes in financin...
35  cards
CAIA - 17 - Listed vs. Unlisted Real Estate
Open end real estate funds are fu...,
In the ___ open end funds typical...,
In the uk the primary unlisted op...
46  cards
CAIA - 18 - International Real Estate Investments
A number of issues exist with int...,
About ___ of the 33 trillion of c...,
___ costs are the total costs of ...
32  cards
CAIA - 19 - Infrastructure as an Investment
Infrastructure typically has the ...,
There are 3 approaches to classif...,
Unregulated pricing of infrastruc...
34  cards
CAIA - 20 - Farmland and Timber Investments
There are 3 primary motivations f...,
Farmland has an ___ supply so hig...,
Farmland returns are not typicall...
44  cards
CAIA - 21 - Investing in Intellectual Property
Film production and distribution ...,
Art provides relatively ___ retur...,
Patents and r d offer ___ returns...
60  cards
CAIA - 22 - Key Concepts in Commodity Markets
Effects of the business cycle var...,
___ ___ is the main currency in w...,
The clearest relationship between...
116  cards
CAIA - 23 - Allocation to Commodities
The risk of commodity futures pos...,
The correlation of commodities to...,
In recent years correlations of c...
59  cards
CAIA - 24 - Assessing Commodity Investment Products
Prices of physical commodities __...,
Most direct commodity investments...,
The one exception where investors...
78  cards
CAIA - 25 - Managed Futures
Professional managed futures mone...,
Investors can access the managed ...,
The ___ _________was created in 1...
70  cards
CAIA - 26 - Investing in CTAs
Futures markets are ___ efficient...,
Futures markets are ___ efficient...,
Cta indices have zero or ___ skew...
43  cards
CAIA - 27 - Hedge Funds: Relative Value Strategies
___ ___strategies aim to exploit ...,
Put call parity equation,
___ ___refers to opportunities th...
64  cards
CAIA - 28 - Hedge Funds: Directional Strategies
The ___ form of the emh states th...,
The ___ ___form of the emh states...,
The ___ form of the emh states th...
54  cards
CAIA - 29 - Hedge Funds: Credit Strategies
___ ___refers to an economic proc...,
___ ___occurs after an economic t...,
Recovery rate equation
102  cards
CAIA - 30 - Volatility, Correlation, and Dispersion Products
___ ___are pure plays on volatili...,
Investments that tend to decline ...,
Studies show that volatility ___ ...
72  cards
CAIA - 31 - Hedge Fund Replication
___ ___refer to exposure to risk ...,
These are designed to capture tra...,
Hedge fund replication products a...
62  cards
CAIA - 32 - Funds of Hedge Funds and Multi-Strategy Funds
What are the 3 approaches to inve...,
What is the main disadvantage to ...,
What are the 3 advantages to inve...
61  cards
CAIA - 33 - Hedge Fund Operational Due Diligence
Hedge funds typically differ from...,
___ refers to the process of comp...,
It is best practice to keep inves...
53  cards
CAIA - 34 - Regulation and Compliance
The 3 key principles of financial...,
The ___ __________________governs...,
The securities exchange act of 19...
55  cards
CAIA - 35 - Structured Products I: Fixed Income Derivatives and Asset Backed Securities
There are 2 broad approaches to m...,
___ models for modeling the term ...,
___ ___models for modeling future...
37  cards
CAIA - 36 - Structured Products II: Insurance-Linked Products and Hybrid Securities
___ ______are tradable financial ...,
___ ___are risk linked debt instr...,
___ ___ represent the largest por...
62  cards

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