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Harbor UCLA Medical Center Management Questions

 

1.Provide a review of the most important risk measures available for assessing the risk of a portfolio. Explain what the advantages and disadvantages of each metric are? Give an overview of the latest regulatory guidelines in terms of which measures to use and which ones to decommission, and the rationale behind these guidelines.

2.Give an overview of the main types of orders you can have within a financial market, in terms of executing a transaction. Discuss the roles of brokers and dealers within these markets. Explain the characteristics, similarities, and differences in each case. 

3. You are running a crypto-currency fund which reports performance results in US Dollars. Is this compatible with the notion of cryptocurrencies as money?

4. Within a paragraph, explain the differences between passive and active investments. What are the advantages and disadvantages in both cases? What type of investor risk profile would be best for an active investment and similarly for a passive one? Do you know any other types of investment styles in between?

5.Within a small paragraph, explain the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Explain the goal of the model, and the assumptions made in order to achieve the CAPM formula. 

6. Within a paragraph, explain the reasons investors would choose to invest in assets that offer guaranteed negative returns. Examples of these assets are certain government bonds and cash bank accounts.