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    Basis risk vs cross-hedging risk

    Hi, You are not alone. This does pop up a lot, and on the forum there have been a couple of posts. this explanation may make it a bit clearer:...
    Post by: Colin McKee, Apr 11, 2024 in forum: SP5
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    SP5 Acronyms

    It has been decommissioned. Sorry.
    Post by: Colin McKee, Apr 11, 2024 in forum: SP5
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    April 2016 Q5 - Performance Attribution

    Post by: Colin McKee, Apr 8, 2024 in forum: SP5
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    Introducing the ActEd Acronym App

    Yes, sorry for the delay. The app was apparently decommission ages ago, due to a change in the security policy at BPP. The app wasnt compliant....
    Post by: Colin McKee, Mar 17, 2024 in forum: CA1
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    SP5 Acronyms

    I agree that it does seem to be dead. I will research and find out why and post when I resolve it.
    Post by: Colin McKee, Mar 4, 2024 in forum: SP5
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    SA7 Sept 2020 Q 2 (iv)

    I think the issue with this one is that the MS suggests an assumption that salaries will grow 1% over inflation, but the result is consistent with...
    Post by: Colin McKee, Feb 27, 2024 in forum: SA7
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    SA7 Sept 2020 Q 2 (iv)

    I think the examiners had the initial contribution growing at 3% pa with salary growth each year, then rolled each year's contribution up to age...
    Post by: Colin McKee, Feb 26, 2024 in forum: SA7
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    CB1 - Chapter 15 - financial futures

    Hi You are maybe thinking of a future as being something that it is not. For example you say "the clearing house is holding the bond .." The...
    Post by: Colin McKee, Feb 6, 2024 in forum: CB1
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    SA5 October 2007 Q1iv)

    No - there used to be a big section in SA5 that contained loads of stuff on the EU directives, and it used to be examined in quite a UK-specific...
    Post by: Colin McKee, Dec 8, 2023 in forum: SA7
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    SA7 April 2024

    It varies, but usually the examination team will have written 200 marks of questions by end December 2023, which will be shuffled into 2 x 100...
    Post by: Colin McKee, Nov 26, 2023 in forum: SA7
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    National debt management

    Yes - thats exactly it.
    Post by: Colin McKee, Sep 18, 2023 in forum: SP5
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    Return achieved over entire period

    Tricky one - there is usually a clue in the question as to whether they want (say) a 3 year return, or the return in each of the 3 years. But if...
    Post by: Colin McKee, Sep 18, 2023 in forum: SP5
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    Structured products

    I would struggle to answer this one. I dont know what structured products that CR writers would have had in their mind at the time of writing....
    Post by: Colin McKee, Sep 18, 2023 in forum: SP5
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    April 2023

    If people are avoiding tax by opting for investments that give a capital gain, then taxing people on total return would remove the opportunity to...
    Post by: Colin McKee, Sep 18, 2023 in forum: SP5
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    National debt management

    Buying back bonds is quite unusual. It has happened but it is unusual. Its more about issuing bonds in the right areas of the yield curve so...
    Post by: Colin McKee, Sep 18, 2023 in forum: SP5