CFA and CAIA journal (1 Viewer)

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

Finished reading R52.

added/studied 6 acronyms, 61 vocabs and 48 combined reading examples and end of practice problems.

FED
ICMA
MTN
MMA
muni
T-bill

agency bond
backup lines of credit
benchmark issue
best effort offering
bid–offer spread
bilateral loan
bridge financing
central bank fund
century bond
certificate of deposit
commercial paper
consol
dealer firm
demand deposit
discount basis
domestic bond
Fed fund
Federal Reserve
firm commitment offering
foreign bond
grey market
haircut (lol, it's actually a fucking finance terminology)
interbank market
interbank money market
interest-bearing basis
lender of last resort
London Interbank Offered Rate
medium-term note
money market account
municipal bond
on-the-run
organized exchange
oversubscription
over-the-counter
primary dealers
prime paper
prime rate
private placement
promissory note
prospectus
public offering
quasi-government bonds
reference rate
repo margin
repurchase agreement
savings account
serial maturity structure
settlement
shelf registration
sovereign bonds
sovereign rate
sovereigns
supranational bonds
syndicated loans
syndicated offering
term maturity structure
treasury bill
treasury bond
treasury note
underwriter
underwritten offering

 

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

awful statistics.



Acronyms


Vocabs


practice problems.

 

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

revised R05

Added 24 vocab

annuity
annuity due
cash flow additivity principle
compounding
continuously compounded return
default risk premium
discount
effective annual rate
future value
inflation premium
interest rate
liquidity premium
maturity premium
nominal risk-free interest rate
opportunity cost
ordinary annuity
perpetuity annuity
present value
principal
quoted interest rate
real risk-free interest rate
simple interest
stated annual interest rate
time value of money

& 8 formula

effective annual rate
effective annual rate for continuous compounding
finding interest/growth rate in TMV
future value (multiple period per year)
future value annuity
future value using continuous compounding
present value annuity
present value of perpetuity

42 practice questions studied and added.

 

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

Revised R06. DCF application

24 vocab added

accrued interest
bank discount basis
bank discount yield
capital budgeting
capital structure
CD equivalent yield
discount rate
effective annual yield
holding period return
holding period yield
hurdle rate
internal rate of return
IRR rule
money market yield
money-weighted rate of return
mutually exclusive
net present value
NPV rule
performance appraisal
performance measurement
periodic rate of return
pure discount instruments
time-weighted rate of return
working capital management

8 formulas added

bank discount yield (BDY)
discount rate from interest rate
effective annual yield
holding period yield
interest rate from discount rate
internal rate of return (IRR)
money market yield (MMY)
net present value (NPV)

So many different yields..

 

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

Finished reading R07.

added 75 vocabs. Total 394

absolute dispersion
absolute frequency
arithmetic mean
bins
central tendency
Chebyshev's inequality
compound rate of return
cost averaging
cross-sectional data
cumulative distribution function
cumulative frequency
cumulative frequency distribution
cumulative percentage
cumulative relative frequency
deciles
descriptive statistics
dispersion
expected value
fractile
frequency
frequency distribution
frequency polygon
geometric mean
harmonic mean
histogram
inferential statistics
interval scale
intervals
level of measurement
linear interpolation
mean
mean absolute deviation
mean squared deviation
measurement scales
measures of location
median
modal interval
mode
nominal scale
ordinal scale
outlier
parameter
percentiles
population
quantile
quartile
quintiles
range
ratio scale
relative dispersion
relative frequency
sample
semideviation
semivariance
standard deviation
statistic
statistics
target semideviation
target semivariance
time-series data
unimodal
variance
weighted mean
coefficient of variation
sharpe ratio
mean excess return
normal distribution
positive skew
negative skew
skewness
kurtosis
leptokurtic
mesokurtic
platykurtic
excess kurtosis

And 16 formulas. Total 34.

coefficient of variation
geometric mean
geometric mean return formula
harmonic mean
linear interpolation formula
mean
mean absolute deviation
population variance
position of a percentile
sample excess kurtosis
sample excess kurtosis with large n
sample skewness
sample skewness with large n
sample variance
sharpe ratio
weighted mean

 

[Kolmias]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

No updates for a while. OP, how is it going? Are youstill studying?

 

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

D day tomo. CFAI Mock exam been hitting around 70%. Need some luck tomo.

Damn fallout 4's fault!

 

[Kolmias]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

D day tomo. CFAI Mock exam been hitting around 70%. Need some luck tomo.

Damn fallout 4's fault!

Well, good luck. From the sounds of it, you seem to have it covered.

 

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

Wow, 90% of the candidates were Asians... looks like Asians will dominate the financial industry in the near future.

 

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

I passed,

but not disappointed in the my score though.




Pass rate was 43% for the 2015 December exam.

 

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

mods: can you change the title of the thread to "CFA and CAIA journal".

thanks.

 

[Kolmias]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

I passed,

but not disappointed in the my score though.




Pass rate was 43%

Nice! Congratulations.

 

[Chronost]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

Congrats man! You definitely worked hard for this one.

 

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

Thanks, I'll need to start catching up on Anki as I have not been reviewing since the exam actively. I have thousands of backlogged cards.

Will register for the CFA level 2 tomorrow for the CFA level 2 in June, then i will take CAIA level 1 in September.

 

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

.

 

[kuromusha]

Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

Registered for level 2 exam on 2016 June. -$1200AUD

 

[He-Mann]

Bump.