NISM Series 21A Portfolio Management (PMS) Distributors Exam

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NISM Outlined Test Objectives & Learning Outcome Covered in this Mock Test:

1. INVESTMENTS

• Capital Preservation / Capital Appreciation / Current Income

• Commodities

• Direct investments

• Distressed Securities

• Equity

• Fixed income securities: role and characteristics

• Investments through managed portfolios

• Nominal risk-free rate, real risk-free rate, and expected inflation

• Other investment opportunities

• Real Estates

• Relationship between risk and return

• Risk Premium

• saving and investment / investment and speculation

• Structured products

• Types of risks

2. Introduction to Securities Market

• Market Infrastructure Institutions and other intermediaries

• Primary and Secondary market

• Primary Market

• Retail Participants

• Secondary Market

• Securities Market

3. Investing in Stocks

• Combining relative valuation and discounted cash flow models

• Diversification of risk through equity instruments

• Equity as an investment

• Equity research and stock selection

• Fundamental Analysis

• Fundamentals Driven model - Estimation of intrinsic value

• Overview of Equity Market

• Risks of equity investments

• Stock Analysis Process

• Technical Analysis

• Understanding Corporate Governance

4. Investing In Fixed Income Securities

• Bond Characteristics

• Bond Pricing

• Bonds with options

• Determinants of bond safety

• Determining duration

• Interest rate risk

• Measuring Price Volatility of bonds

• Overview of Fixed Income Securities

• Types of Fixed Income Instruments

5. Derivatives

• Commodity and Currency Futures and Options

• Currency derivatives

• Definition of Derivatives

• Forwards

• Futures

• Options

• Purpose of Derivatives

• Structure of derivative markets

• Swaps

• Underlying concepts in derivatives

6. Mutual Fund

• Benefits of investing through mutual funds

• Concept and Role of Mutual Fund

• Fact Sheet - Scheme Related Information

• Key performance measures

• Legal and Regulatory Framework – Key SEBI Regulation

• Legal Structure of Mutual Fund in India

• Processes of investing in mutual funds

• Types of Mutual fund products

• Working of mutual funds

7. Role Of Portfolio Managers

• Administration of investor’s portfolio

• General Responsibilities of a Portfolio Manager

• Organizational structure of PMS in India

• Portfolio managers in India

• Registration requirements of a Portfolio Manager

• Types of portfolio management services

8. Operational Aspects Of Portfolio Managers

• Best Practices for the disclosures – Global Investment Performance Standards GIPS

• Content of agreement between the portfolio manager and investor

• Costs, expenses and fees of investing in PMS

• Direct On-boarding in PMS

• Disclosures to the prospective clients

• Process of On-boarding of clients

• Redressal of investors grievances

• Submitting duly filled application form

9. Portfolio Management Process

• Analysing the financial position of the investor

• Assessments of needs and requirements of investor

• Forecasting risk and return of various asset classes

• Investment Constraints

• Investment Policy Statement (IPS)

• Life cycle analysis of investor

• Psychographic analysis of investor

• Rebalancing of Portfolio

• Steps in Portfolio Management Process

• Strategic versus Tactical Asset Allocation

• Understanding correlation

10. Performance Measurement And Evaluation Of Portfolio Managers

• Alpha and Beta return

• AMR/GMR

• Annualizing return

• Assets and Sector Allocation

• Cash drag adjusted return

• Compounded Annual Growth Rate

• Due Diligence and Portfolio Manager selection

• GIPS Advertisement Guidelines

• Global Investment Performance Standards

• Gross versus net return

• Performance reporting to the Investor

• Portfolio risk versus individual risk

• Pre-tax versus post tax return

• Risk Return

• Semi variance / Semistandard deviation as a measure of downside risk

• Sharpe Ratio / Treynor Ratio

• Sortino Ratio / Information Ratio / M2 Measure

• Systematic Risk and Unsystematic Risk

• Total risk and downside risk

• TWRR/MWRR/IRR

11. TAXATION

• Business income

• Capital Gains

• Characterisation of income

• Dividend income

• Entitlement of benefit under Double Tax Avoidance Agreement

• Interest income

• Place of Effective Management (POEM)

• Residential status

• Section 9A of Income Tax Act

12. Regulatory, Governance And Ethical Aspects Of Portfolio Managers

• Code of conduct for PMS Distributors

• Code of conduct for portfolio manager

• Eligible Fund Managers

• Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002

• SEBI (Portfolio Managers) Regulations, 2020

• SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003

• SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations 2015

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