Financial CME #9: Test Your Knowledge

December 12th, 2018
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This is the ninth of a recurring series of quizzes to test your knowledge on physician personal finance and investing topics. Some people learn best by reading textbooks. Others like listening to lectures in a course format. This series of quizzes is designed for the physician or other high-income professional who learns best by doing questions.

Each quiz will have ten or so questions. To see the answer, click the “Show Answer” button under each question.

No actual CME can be earned with these quizzes, but hopefully you’ll learn something by answering the questions and reading the explanations. Good luck!

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The correct answer is B. The investment with an 8% annual return will be worth 1.08^30 = $10.06 in 30 years, while the investment with a 7% return will be worth $7.61 in 30 years. The investment with an 8% return will be worth $10.06/$7.61 or 32% more than the investment with an 7% return over 30 years. You probably could have also gotten this question correct by just selecting the answer closest to 1% x 30 years = 30%.

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The correct answer is B. Investors can deduct up to $3,000 in capital losses on their taxes each year. Additional losses can be rolled over for future tax years. Remember to follow the IRS rules and avoid wash sales when taking capital losses.

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The correct answer is B. While target-date funds are often considered simply a basket of index funds, it turns out that many target-date funds actually contain actively-managed funds and have high expense ratios. Since target-date funds are often used by new or inexperienced investors, it’s important to always look at the expense ratio and components of the target-date fund to be sure that they hold index funds.

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The correct answer is D.The later you start taking Social Security benefits, the higher your monthly benefit will be. The latest you can start taking Social Security benefits is age 70.

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The correct answer is B. While capital losses are subject to wash sale rules, capital gains are not. You are free to immediate purchase stock that you sold for a profit without tax consequences.

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The correct answer is A. Municipal bonds, because of their favorable tax treatment, typically have lower expected returns than corporate bonds of similar quality.

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The correct answer is A. As your income rises, the marginal increase in utility / happiness from each additional dollar you earn decreases (law of diminishing returns).

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The correct answer is A. Dividend stocks give regular dividends to their investors, which are taxable if the stocks are held in a taxable account. Therefore, a portfolio of high-dividend stocks are less tax-efficient than holding index funds.

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The correct answer is A. When the dollar is strengthening versus other currencies, it means that your U.S. dollars are worth more, so when you go to the currency exchange to exchange your dollars for foreign currency, you’ll get more foreign currency.

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The correct answer is B. A recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. In general, GDP growth is a lagging indicator; the stock market has usually begun to fall far before a recession is officially declared.

What do you think? How’d you do on the quiz?

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