Practice Quiz 6A

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Practice Quiz 6 1. A composite rating of 5 is the rating for the soundest financial institutions. a. True b. False *** 2. Banks have higher leverage than most manufacturing firms. a. True **** b. False 3. The provision for loan loss account is the actual loan losses less loan recoveries in a given time period. a. True b. False **** 4. The allowance for loan and lease losses is bank management's estimate of the amount of gross loans and leases that may not be repaid to the bank. a. True **** b. False 5. Loans are the major asset on a bank's balance sheet, and they generate the largest amount of revenue. a. True **** b. False 6. Rate-sensitive funding sources at a bank are termed core deposits. a. True
b. False **** 7. For securities firms, income from investment and wealth management is more stable than income from underwriting or trading activities. a. True **** b. False 8. Diversified full-line investment banks act as both broker-dealers and securities underwriters. a. True **** b. False 9. The process of creating a secondary market for securities or contracts is termed brokerage. a. True b. False **** 10. In a best efforts offering, the investment banker acts as an agent for the issuer rather than as a principal. a. True **** b. False 11. A market maker buys IBM at $185 for his own account and sells the stock later in the day at $187. He is acting as a broker in this transaction. a. True b. False **** 12. For the trading desk of an investment bank buying large blocks of securities and holding them until the price rises sufficiently to warrant a sale is an example of position trading. a. True **** b. False 13. An example of a pure arbitrage strategy is to simultaneously buy and sell the same security in two different markets at different prices.
a. True **** b. False 14. A stockbroker acts as a principal on behalf of the customer. a. True b. False **** It acts as an agent. An underwriter acts as a principal. 15. Program trading is the simultaneous buying and selling of at least 15 stocks worth a total of $1 million or more. a. True **** b. False 16. The share price of Walmart has appreciated significantly relative to the share price of Target in the last 30 days. The trading desk takes a long position in shares of Target and a short position in Walmart. This is an example of a risk arbitrage strategy. a. True **** More specifically, this is called a statistical arbitrage (stat arb) strategy, which is a special case of a risk arbitrage strategy. b. False 17. Angel investors tend to be more active investors compared to venture fund investors. a. True b. False **** 18. An advantage of private placements is that there is no requirement to register with the SEC since the placements are made only to large, sophisticated investors; therefore, the cost of issuance is lower. a. True **** b. False 19. Firms underwriting securities assist corporate clients in selling them in secondary markets. a. True b. False **** They assist in selling them in the primary markets.
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