Revision test. I. Complete the following sentences (more than 1 variant is possible in several instances):

I. Complete the following sentences (more than 1 variant is possible in several instances):

a) The type of investment when the resources of many individual investors who have the same financial goals are pooled together and managed by fund portfolio managers who invest the resources in a mix of stocks, bonds or money market securities is called:

1) mutual funds investment

2) portfolio investment

3) foreign direct investment.

b) Investing directly in production in another country, either by buying a company there or establishing new operations of an existing business is referred to as:

1) greenfield investment

2) portfolio investment

3) foreign direct investment.

c) Market timer is a person who:

1) attempts to predict the future direction of the market, typically through the use of technical indicators or economic data

2) switches among mutual fund asset classes in an attempt to profit from the changes in their market outlook

3) establishes new operations in another country.

d) Information such as revenue, earnings, assets, liabilities and growth of a company are called the company’s:

1) fundamentals

2) profile

3) price/earnings ratio.

e) Disposition or sale of an asset by a company is referred to as:

1) merging

2) divestiture

3) divestment.

II. Fill in the blanks in the sentences below:

1. The strategy of selecting stocks that trade for less than their intrinsic value is called _______.

2. Value investors actively seek stocks of companies that they believe the market has _______.

3. A passive investment strategy in which an investor buys stocks and holds them for a long period of time, regardless of fluctuations in the market, is referred to as _______.

4.Value investorsbelieve that the market overreacts to good and bad news, causing stock price movements that do not correspond with the company's long-term _______.

5. A large corporation consisting of a group of companies dealing in widely diversified goods and services is a _______.

III. Provide antonyms for the following words and expressions.

1) to invest

2) to sky-rocket

3) to plummet

4) large-cap stocks

5) investment

6) overvalued

7) short-term investment

8) to appreciate in value

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