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Investor Challenge
Do you have financial Gravitas?
Are you a savvy investor? Take our Greenwing Savvy
Investor Challenge below and see how you do?
1. Are you savvy about
compounding? If a dollar doubled every year, what would
its value be in 20 years?
a. $428
b. $124,842
c. $16,648
d. $1,048,576
2. Are you savvy about different
investing strategies? What is a hedge fund?
a. It is a real estate investment
trust that holds both equity and mortgage investments.
b. It is when a group of
landscaping professionals pool their funds into credit unions.
c. It is a type of pooled
portfolio instrument organized for maximum investment
flexibility, typically investing in derivatives.
d. A hedge fund invests in stocks
that have above-average P/E ratios and whose earnings are
expected to grow rapidly.
3. Are you savvy about avoiding
the most common investing mistakes? All of the following
are among the most common investing mistakes but one.
Can you pick it out?
a. Procrastinating about financial
decisions.
b. Having goals that are too
general, undefined or unrealistic.
c. Not having a plan, or having
one that won't work.
d. Making decisions based on
emotions (fear and greed).
e. Wanting to do it yourself to
save a few bucks.
f. Being too conservative or too
aggressive.
g. Concentration rather than
diversification.
h. Being overly influenced by
family and friends.
i. Demanding immediate results and
satisfaction.
j. Asking a professional to help
you develop and implement a plan.
k. Thinking that any person, firm
or magazine knows where any market or security is going and
when.
4. Are you savvy about research?
What is a head-and-shoulders formation?
a. When odd-lot sales are
abnormally high, the market is said to be near a bottom.
b. A pattern of stock price trends
that looks like a head and shoulders is believed by some
technical analysts to forecast a price decline.
c. When you are picking out mutual
funds and you notice many small, white flakes on your
shoulders and realize you need head-and-shoulders formation.
d. A pattern of stock price trends
that looks like a head and shoulders and is believed by some
technical analysts to forecast a price advance.
Scoring: (answers below)
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0 correct = 0% |
Call us immediately. |
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1 correct = 25% |
Call us sometime today. |
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2 correct = 50% |
Call us sometime in the next
2-3 days |
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3 correct = 75% |
Not bad, but still call us
sometime this week. |
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4 correct = 100% |
Congratulations savvy investor
person. Call us for an employment opportunity! |
1-d, 2-c, 3-j, 4-b.
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