Finance and Investment Questions

Topics include:
Portfolio Theories
1. Portfolio Return and Risk
2. Diversification and Efficient Frontier
3. CAPM Model
4. Index Model and Factor Model(s)
5. APT Model and Theory
Bond Market
1. Bond Price and Yield
2. Bond Duration
3. Bond Portfolio/Strategy
4. Immunization
5. Forward Rate and Yield Curve
6. Theories of Term Structure
Option Market
1. Option payoff and profit
2. Option Strategies, eg.Bull spread
3. Option Pricing
4. BS model
5. Put-call parity
6. Arbitrage
Futures Market
1. Futures Price
2. Futures Profits
3. Futures Strategies
4. Hedging
5. Arbitrage
6. Mark-to-market
Performance Evaluation
1. Measures of performance evaluation
Market Efficiency
2. Evidence for/against EMH
Miscellaneous
1. Returns (in various forms), eg.HPR/Time-weighted/Dollar-weighted average return/returns denominated foreign (domestic) currencies
2. Stock index
3. Buying on margin and Short-selling