CACS Paper 2 Practice Questions - Client Advisor Competency Standards (CACS) Paper 2 - Industry and Product Knowledge Exam - CACS Paper 2 Practice Questions - Client Advisor Competency Standards (CACS) Paper 2

Question 1

In a private-banking investment context, real GDP growth is best described as:

Nominal GDP including transfer payments only The central bank's overnight policy rate Nominal GDP growth adjusted for inflation The current-account surplus as a share of GDP

Correct Answer:

Nominal GDP growth adjusted for inflation

Question 2

If consumer price inflation is rising faster than expected, which asset class typically faces the most immediate headwind from a valuation perspective, all else equal?

Short-dated Treasury bills with floating coupons that reset daily to inflation Long-duration fixed-income securities Physical gold with no price sensitivity to real rates Overnight cash deposits with daily interest accrual

Correct Answer:

Long-duration fixed-income securities

Question 3

During late-cycle expansion with tight labour markets and rising policy rates, private bankers most commonly tilt discretionary portfolios toward:

Maximum concentration in the most cyclical small-cap names with high leverage Eliminating cash and all hedges to stay fully invested in risk assets Shifting entirely into the longest-duration sovereigns regardless of credit quality Higher-quality credit and shorter duration relative to mid-cycle risk-on positioning

Correct Answer:

Higher-quality credit and shorter duration relative to mid-cycle risk-on positioning

Question 4

A surprise 50 bp cut in the central bank policy rate, with unchanged inflation expectations, most directly tends to:

Automatically raise long-end real yields by the same 50 bp Lower short-term money-market yields and support risk asset valuations via easier financial conditions Raise required equity returns while leaving discount rates unchanged in all models Remove FX risk from all multi-currency portfolios automatically

Correct Answer:

Lower short-term money-market yields and support risk asset valuations via easier financial conditions

Question 5

A large unfunded fiscal expansion that markets price as higher future issuance and inflation risk is most likely to:

Guarantee a parallel downward shift in all sovereign yields Steepen or lift the nominal yield curve as term premia and inflation compensation rise Have no effect on bond markets if GDP is unchanged in the same quarter Compress all corporate credit spreads to gilt-equivalent levels permanently

Correct Answer:

Steepen or lift the nominal yield curve as term premia and inflation compensation rise

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