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1.
A fund's turnover rate is usually calculated _______.
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Once a year. As a rule, turnover rates are calculated yearly.
2.
Sector weightings in a fund tell you what?
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What industries your manager favors. If a fund has 50% of its portfolio in the technology sector, for example, half of its performance will be determined by the strength or weakness of that one sector.
3.
In the Morningstar style box, all the small-cap funds are the same size.
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False. The funds vary dramatically in market capitalization; therefore, you should examine the size of each.
4.
Price risk is the risk that securities will be overvalued by the market.
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True. Price risk can be illustrated with price/earnings and price/book ratios.
5.
A fund's number of holdings tells you how much sector risk a fund is taking on.
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False. The number of holdings tells you how much per-issue risk a fund is taking on.