Study Notes for CFA® Level III – Trading, Performance Evaluation, and Manager Selection – offered by AnalystPrep

Study Notes for CFA® Level III – Trading, Performance Evaluation, and Manager Selection – offered by AnalystPrep

Reading 11: Trade Strategy and Execution

Los 11 a: Discuss motivations to trade and how they relate to trading strategy

Los 11 b: Discuss inputs to the selection of a trading strategy

Los 11 c: Compare benchmarks for trade execution

Los 11 d: Recommend and justify a trading strategy (given relevant facts)

Los 11 e: Describe factors that typically determine the selection of a trading algorithm class

Los 11 f: Contrast key characteristics of the following markets in relation to trade implementation: equity, fixed income, options and futures, OTC derivatives, and spot currency

Los 11 g: Explain how trade costs are measured and determine the cost of a trade

Los 11 h: Evaluate the execution of a trade

Los 11 i: Evaluate a firm’s trading procedures, including processes, disclosures, and record-keeping with respect to good governance.

Reading 12: Portfolio Performance Evaluation

Los 12 a: Explain the following components of portfolio evaluation and their interrelationships: performance measurement, performance attribution, and performance appraisal

Los 12 b: Describe attributes of an effective attribution process

Los 12 c: Contrast return attribution and risk attribution; contrast macro and micro return attribution

Los 12 d: Describe returns-based, holdings-based, and transaction-based performance attribution, including advantages and disadvantages of each

Los 12 e: Interpret the sources of portfolio returns using a specified attribution approach

Los 12 f: Interpret the output from fixed-income attribution analyses

Los 12 g: Discuss considerations in selecting a risk attribution approach

Los 12 h: Identify and interpret investment results attributable to the asset owner versus those attributable to the investment manager

Los 12 i: Discuss uses of liability-based benchmarks

Los 12 j: Describe types of asset-based benchmarks

Los 12 k: Discuss tests of benchmark quality

Los 12 l: Describe problems that arise in benchmarking alternative investments

Los 12 m: Describe the impact of benchmark misspecification on attribution and appraisal analysis

Los 12 n: Calculate and interpret the Sortino ratio, the appraisal ratio, upside/downside capture ratios, maximum drawdown, and drawdown duration

Los 12 o: Describe limitations of appraisal measures and related metrics

Los 12 p: Evaluate the skill of an investment manager

Reading 13: Investment Manager Selection

Los 13 a: Describe the components of a manager selection process, including due diligence

Los 13 b: Contrast Type I and Type II errors in manager hiring and continuation decisions

Los 13 c: Describe uses of returns-based and holdings-based style analysis in investment manager selection

Los 13 d: Describe uses of the upside capture ratio, downside capture ratio, maximum drawdown, drawdown duration, and up/down capture in evaluating managers

Los 13 e: Evaluate a manager’s investment philosophy and investment decision-making process

Los 13 f: Evaluate the costs and benefits of pooled investment vehicles and separate accounts

Los 13 g: Compare types of investment manager contracts, including their major provisions and advantages and disadvantages

Los 13 h: Describe the three basic forms of performance-based fees

Los 13 i: Analyze and interpret a sample performance-based fee schedule

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