NO.PZ201809170400000507
问题如下:
Monongahela Ap is an equity fund analyst. His manager asks him to evaluate three actively managed equity funds from a single sponsor, Chiyodasenko Investment Corp. Ap’s assessments of the funds based on assets under management (AUM), the three main building blocks of portfolio construction, and the funds’ approaches to portfolio management are presented in Exhibit 1. Selected data for Fund 1 is presented in Exhibit 2.
Ap learns that Chiyodasenko has initiated a new equity fund. It is similar to Fund 1 but scales up active risk by doubling all of the active weights relative to Fund 1. The new fund aims to scale active return linearly with active risk, but implementation is problematic. Because of the cost and difficulty of borrowing some securities, the new fund cannot scale up its short positions to the same extent that it can scale up its long positions.
Ap reviews quarterly holdings reports for Fund 3. In comparing the two most recent quarterly reports, he notices differences in holdings that indicate that Fund 3 executed two trades, with each trade involving pairs of stocks. Initially, Fund 3 held active positions in two automobile stocks—one was overweight by 1 percentage point (pp), and the other was underweight by 1pp. Fund 3 traded back to benchmark weights on those two stocks. In the second trade, Fund 3 selected two different stocks that were held at benchmark weights, one energy stock and one financial stock. Fund 3 overweighted the energy stock by 1pp and underweighted the financial stock by 1pp.
In Fund 3’s latest quarterly report, Ap reads that Fund 3 implemented a new formal risk control for its forecasting model that constrains the predicted return distribution so that no more than 60% of the deviations from the mean are negative.
What was the effect of Fund 3’s two trades on its active share? Fund 3’s active share:
选项:
A.decreased.
B.remained unchanged.
C.increased.
解释:
B is correct. Active share changes only if the total of the absolute values of the portfolio’s active weights changes. For the two trades in Fund 3, both the initial position and the new position involved two stocks such that one was 1pp underweighted and the other was 1pp overweighted. Although the active weights of particular securities did change between the initial position and the new position, the total absolute active weights did not change.
Therefore, the portfolio’s active share did not change.
Fund 3 held active positions in two automobile stocks—one was overweight by 1 percentage point (pp), and the other was underweight by 1pp. Fund 3 traded back to benchmark weights on those two stocks. In the second trade, Fund 3 selected two different stocks that were held at benchmark weights, one energy stock and one financial stock. Fund 3 overweighted the energy stock by 1pp and underweighted the financial stock by 1pp.
(1)根据题目,trade1是把权重调回bechamark【Fund 3 traded back to benchmark weights on those two stocks. 】,那么active share=0
(2)trade 2是把权重偏离bechmark【 Fund 3 overweighted the energy stock by 1pp and underweighted the financial stock by 1pp.】,那么AS=1%
所以AS是上升了