Assured returns scheme
The only kind of scheme permitted to promise returns, requiring a guarantor named in the SID who must pay if the scheme cannot meet the assured return.
This one is not written up yet
The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.
Written up from the same chapter
- BetaHow sharply a share moves relative to the market index — beta 1 moves with the index, above 1 amplifies it, below 1 dampens it. The standard measure of systematic risk.
- CAGRThe single smoothed annual rate at which a starting value would have to grow, compounding each year, to reach the ending value over a given period.
- Modified DurationMacaulay's duration divided by (1 + yield) — the percentage by which a bond's price moves for a one percentage point change in interest rates, and so the standard measure of interest rate risk.
- Segregated portfolioA ring-fenced sub-portfolio holding the debt instrument hit by a credit event, split out of a scheme so that the good assets stay liquid and exiting investors cannot leave the damaged paper behind.
- Sharpe ratioReturn earned above the risk-free rate divided by standard deviation — how much reward an investment produced for each unit of total risk its holder had to live with.
- Standard deviationA measure of how far returns typically stray from their own average — the standard statistic for total risk, counting company-specific and market-wide causes alike.
Where this is taught
- Series V-B · Chapter 7: Performance of Mutual Fundsintroduced here
- Series V-A · Chapter 10: Risk, Return and Performance of Fundsintroduced here
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