1. Asmita Mack, CFA, lives in the country of Onionland. Each morning, Asmita crosses the border to the neighboring country of WDC where she manages client portfolios. This morning, a positive earnings report was announced for HawkBlack, Inc. (ticker KANE). Asmita would like to invest in the stock and believes it would benefit her clients as well. WDC has a law that restricts portfolio managers from investing in securities owned by their clients. Onionland has no such law.

To comply with the Standard, what is the minimum that Asmita must do?

2. Joyce Price issues weekly investment reports. Joyce looks for trends and commonalities within the research community. She then presents the findings as her own research and doesn’t cite any sources. Joyce gives them to her boss, Soojung Yu, CFA. Soojung peer-reviews the reports and does not mention anything about citing sources.

Has Soojung most likely violated the Standards?

3. The early 21st century saw a few significant stresses on the stock market. The markets dipped deeper and more quickly than many were expecting might happen.

Which of the following statistical metrics most accurately describes this event?

4. Which of the following statements regarding Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Net Present Value (NPV) is/are most likely correct?

1: If the NPV and IRR methods give conflicting decisions for mutually exclusive projects, the IRR method should be used to select the project.
2: A project may have positive NPV even if its IRR is less than the cost of capital
3: IRR is the discount rate at which the NPV of the project is zero.
4: A project’s IRR can be positive even if the NPV is negative.

5. Which of the following are accurate in an oligopoly with stable equilibrium?

I. Marginal revenue is greater than marginal price.
II. All companies are producing the same level of output.