Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) Quiz: Identify Alternative Investment Characteristics

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Question 1

1. Exchange-traded REIT (correct answer)
2. Real estate DPP limited partnership
3. Hedge fund with a one-year lockup
4. Private DPP oil and gas program

Question 2

1. Partners pool funds to buy apartments and share rental income (correct answer)
2. Investors day-trade shares of an S&P 500 ETF
3. Depositors earn interest in a savings account
4. Shareholders vote on quarterly earnings guidance

Question 3

1. Exchange-traded REIT shares
2. Listed large-cap common stock
3. Real estate DPP limited partnership interest (correct answer)
4. Exchange-traded fund shares

Question 4

1. receive tax-exempt income distributions.
2. pass through both income and losses to investors. (correct answer)
3. defer all tax liability until the program is liquidated.
4. avoid corporate taxation by passing through only capital gains.

Question 5

1. Market risk
2. Credit risk
3. Interest rate risk
4. Liquidity risk (correct answer)

Question 6

1. Retail investors seeking retirement income
2. Any investor with a brokerage account
3. Accredited investors and qualified purchasers (correct answer)
4. Foreign nationals only

Question 7

1. only gains, while a REIT can pass through both gains and losses.
2. both gains and losses, while a REIT can only pass through gains. (correct answer)
3. tax-exempt income, while a REIT cannot.
4. only losses, while a REIT can only pass through gains.

Question 8

1. ordinary income rate. (correct answer)
2. long-term capital gains rate.
3. preferred dividend rate.
4. tax-exempt municipal rate.

Question 9

1. Securities Act of 1933.
2. Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
3. Investment Company Act of 1940. (correct answer)
4. USA PATRIOT Act.

Question 10

1. Form 1099-DIV
2. Form W-2
3. Schedule K-1 (correct answer)
4. Form 1099-B

Question 11

1. 2% commission on trades and a 20% tax on profits.
2. 2% annual management fee and a 20% performance fee on profits. (correct answer)
3. 2% front-end load and a 20% back-end load.
4. 2% dividend yield and a 20% capital gain.

Question 12

1. oil prices are subject to global supply and demand.
2. the general partner may mismanage the program.
3. changes in tax laws could reduce the program's tax advantages. (correct answer)
4. the partnership's assets are illiquid.

Question 13

1. purchasing a diversified portfolio of blue-chip stocks.
2. investing in U.S. government bonds for income.
3. using significant leverage and selling securities short. (correct answer)
4. holding a large portion of the portfolio in cash equivalents.

Question 14

1. low annual management fees.
2. high minimum investment requirement. (correct answer)
3. guarantee against loss of principal.
4. public listing on a major stock exchange.

Question 15

1. limited liability and a passive management role.
2. unlimited liability and an active management role. (correct answer)
3. limited liability and is the primary investor.
4. unlimited liability but no management authority.

Question 16

1. greater transparency and public disclosure.
2. lower overall fees.
3. limited transparency and less frequent reporting. (correct answer)
4. stricter regulatory limits on the use of derivatives.

Question 17

1. higher potential for using leverage.
2. ability to pass through tax losses.
3. greater liquidity. (correct answer)
4. exemption from local property taxes.

Question 18

1. The REIT is forced to liquidate its real estate holdings.
2. The REIT is taxed as a standard corporation on its income. (correct answer)
3. The shareholders' dividends become tax-free for that year.
4. The REIT is permanently delisted from its stock exchange.

Question 19

1. C-Corporations.
2. S-Corporations.
3. Unit Investment Trusts.
4. Limited Partnerships. (correct answer)

Question 20

1. The hedge fund
2. The non-listed REIT
3. The listed equity REIT (correct answer)
4. All of them will have a daily market price.