What to know
Identify the rule, formula, or decision criterion before reading the answer choices. CFA Level I distractors often use the right vocabulary with the wrong condition.
Alternative Investment Features, Methods, and Structures is part of CFA Level I Alternative Investments. Alternative Investments questions emphasize private capital, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources, hedge funds, digital assets, and performance measurement. Use this page to review the controlling ideas, then work through 3 questions with answer explanations and common traps.
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Practice this topicIdentify the rule, formula, or decision criterion before reading the answer choices. CFA Level I distractors often use the right vocabulary with the wrong condition.
Work each item under time pressure, then compare your reasoning with the step-by-step explanation and key takeaway.
Missed questions should become scheduled reviews when the error comes from a concept gap, formula setup, or answer-choice trap.
Alternative Investment Features, Methods, and Structures
Compared with traditional investments in publicly traded stocks and bonds, alternative investments most likely exhibit:
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Marisol Vega is a limited partner in Andean Growth Partners, a private capital fund with USD120 million of committed capital. The fund's investment period has ended, and the partnership agreement now sets the 2.0% annual management fee on invested capital remaining in the portfolio. The fund has called USD90 million, of which USD75 million was invested in portfolio companies, and investments with an original cost of USD15 million have been exited. The annual management fee is closest to:
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A sovereign wealth fund with a small alternative-investments team decides to accept every co-investment opportunity offered by its general partners in order to lower its blended fee load. The most significant concern with this approach is that:
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