Portfolio Management — Free Practice Questions
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Among the major asset classes investors consider when forming portfolios, which is most accurately characterized as offering a contractual stream of interest payments and return of principal, with returns historically lower and less volatile than those of common equity?
Why: Fixed-income securities promise a defined stream of interest (coupon) payments and the return of principal at maturity, and as a class they have historically exhibited lower average returns and lower return volatility than common equity. Common equity represents a residual ownership claim with no contractual payment promise and historically higher volatility, while direct real estate is a tangible-asset class whose returns derive from rents and price appreciation rather than a contractual interest-and-principal stream.
An analyst states that one benefit of considering multiple asset classes when forming a portfolio is that asset classes tend to differ in their return, risk, and correlation characteristics. The primary portfolio-construction rationale for grouping securities into asset classes is best described as:
Why: Asset classes are groupings of securities with broadly similar characteristics and return/risk drivers; defining them lets an investor allocate across distinct sources of return and risk rather than analyzing each security in isolation. It is not true that asset classes share identical expected returns — they differ precisely in return and risk — and combining asset classes does not guarantee outperformance of every single security; diversification reduces risk but offers no certainty of beating any individual holding.
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