A Fund Has Excess Performance of 1

question 24

Multiple Choice

A fund has excess performance of 1.5%.In looking at the fund's investment breakdown you see that the fund overweighed equities relative to the benchmark and the average return on the fund's equity portfolio was slightly lower than the equity benchmark return.The excess performance for this fund is probably due to _______________.

• A) security selection ability
• B) better sector weightings in the equity portfolio
• C) the asset allocation decision
• D) finding securities with positive alphas

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Definitions:

Partnership Liabilities

Obligations that arise during the course of a partnership's operation that all partners are typically jointly and severally responsible for.

Liquidated Assets

are assets that have been converted into cash or cash equivalents by selling them on the open market.

Wrongful Dissolution

The improper termination of a partnership or corporate entity in violation of agreements or legal provisions.

Partnership Agreement

A formal contract between two or more parties to manage and operate a business and share its profits or losses.