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Which of the following statement is FALSE?
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If you ignore a margin call when you are using margins account, your broker immediately may sell some of your securities to repay the margin loan. |
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B. |
When forecasting future returns, geometric average will have pessimistic view for short-term period forecasts. |
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Geometric average will always be greater than the arithmetic average returns as long as the returns each year are not the same. |
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On a short sale, your maximum loss is unlimited. |
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Research shows that about 90% of portfolio performance stems from asset allocation. |
Answer - Option C is false
Explaination-
Option A is accurate. The broker does have the right to sell securities to take care of the liabilities if you do not pay attention to a margin call.
Option B is also correct, though the difference in short term is not very high. Note that Option C is incorrect as AM or arithmatic mean is always greater than or equal to geometric mean.
Theoretically, you have unlimited loss potential on short sale. Thus, Option D is correct.
Option E is correct according to Portfolio Performance research (Brinson, Hood, Beebower, 1986)