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1.
Price risk is the risk that securities will cost too much.
False. Price risk is the risk that securities will be overvalued by the market.
2.
A fund's turnover rate tells you what?
How frequently the manager trades the portfolio. Buy-and-hold managers will have lower turnover rates than managers who buy and sell stocks on short-term factors.
3.
Sector weightings in a fund tell you how much price risk a fund is taking on.
False. Sector weightings tell you the industries your manager favors.
4.
The large differences in size among funds in the "small-cap" section of the Morningstar style box mean that _______.
Some will outperform others at times. Some funds will perform better than others during market conditions that favor the companies they hold.
5.
A fund's number of holdings tells you how much per-issue risk a fund is taking on.
True. Funds with fewer holdings are more vulnerable to troubles in one or two stocks than funds with more holdings are. Sector weightings reveal a fund's sector risk, while P/E and P/B ratios relative to a fund's peers reflect price risk.
