Investment Portfolio - Answers Set of securities you have
Security Analysis - Answers Analyzing whether a security is misvalued by the market
Portfolio Management - Answers Managing securities according to an investor's needs, monitoring and
evaluating it's performance.
Risk - return trade-off - Answers The possibility of higher returns usually comes with a higher degree of
risk
Modern Portfolio Theory - Answers An approach towards investing based on principles following
efficient diversification and risk - return trade-off
Passive Management - Answers Holding a variety of security types without attempting to outperform
other investors or the market
Active Management - Answers Investing according to market timing or security selection
Market Timing - Answers Buying when one thinks a market will do well, and selling when one thinks it
will perform poorly.
Security Selection - Answers Buying securities that seemed to be undervalued, and selling those which
are overvalued
Efficient Markets Hypothesis - Answers The idea that because of the wealth of investors, the chance that
markets are misvalued for long periods of time are rare, if existent
Real assets - Answers Land, buildings, machines used to produce goods
Financial assets - Answers Claims to income generated by real assets
Financial Intermediaries - Answers Institutions that provide services to coordinate the exchange of real
assets between clients
Mutual funds - Answers Security consisting of diverse offerings of securities bought through a pool of
assets from multiple investors
Investment Bankers - Answers Markets the issuance of a security from a business to the public
Pass-through Security - Answers Security consisting of a pool of loans where holder receives principal
and interest payment
Primitive Security - Answers A security depending only on the status of the issuer
Derivative Security - Answers A security whose value depends on the price of other assets