Study Notes for CFA® Level III – Equity Portfolio Management – offered by AnalystPrep

Study Notes for CFA® Level III – Equity Portfolio Management – offered by AnalystPrep

Reading 23: Overview of Equity Portfolio Management

Los 23 a: Describe the roles of equities in the overall portfolio

Los 23 b: Describe how an equity manager’s investment universe can be segmented

Los 23 c: Describe the types of income and costs associated with owning and managing an equity portfolio and their potential effects on portfolio performance

Los 23 d: Describe the potential benefits of shareholder engagement and the role an equity manager might play in shareholder engagement

Los 23 e: Describe rationales for equity investment across the passive–active spectrum

Reading 24: Passive Equity Investing

Los 24 a: Discuss considerations in choosing a benchmark for a passively managed equity portfolio

Los 24 b: Compare passive factor-based strategies to market-capitalization-weighted indexing

Los 24 c: Compare different approaches to passive equity investing

Los 24 d: Compare the full replication, stratified sampling, and optimization approaches for the construction of passively managed equity portfolios

Los 24 e: Discuss potential causes of tracking error and methods to control tracking error for passively managed equity portfolios

Los 24 f: Explain sources of return and risk to a passively managed equity portfolio

Reading 25: Active Equity Investing: Strategies

Los 25 a: Compare fundamental and quantitative approaches to active management

Los 25 b: Analyze bottom-up active strategies, including their rationale and associated processes

Los 25 c: Analyze top-down active strategies, including their rationale and associated processes

Los 25 d: Analyze factor-based active strategies, including their rationale and associated processes

Los 25 e: Analyze activist strategies, including their rationale and associated processes

Los 25 f: Describe active strategies based on statistical arbitrage and market microstructure

Los 25 g: Describe how fundamental active investment strategies are created

Los 25 h: Describe how quantitative active investment strategies are created

Los 25 i: Discuss equity investment style classifications

Reading 26: Active Equity Investing: Portfolio Construction

Los 26 a: Describe elements of a manager’s investment philosophy that influence the portfolio construction process

Los 26 b: Discuss approaches for constructing actively managed equity portfolios

Los 26 c: Distinguish between Active Share and Active Risk and discuss how each measure relates to a manager’s investment strategy

Los 26 d: Discuss the application of risk budgeting concepts in portfolio construction

Los 26 e: Discuss risk measures that are incorporated in equity portfolio construction and describe how limits set on these measures affect portfolio construction

Los 26 f: Discuss how assets under management, position size, market liquidity, and portfolio turnover affect equity portfolio construction decisions

Los 26 g: Evaluate the efficiency of a portfolio structure given its investment mandate

Los 26 h: Discuss the long-only, long extension, long/short, and equitized market-neutral approaches to equity portfolio construction, including their risks, costs, and effects on potential alphas

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