Positive abnormal returns for corporate insiders constitute a violation of:

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• If you believe in the ________ form of the EMH, you believe that stock prices reflect all relevant information including historical stock prices and current public information about the firm, but not information that is available only to insiders.
• If you believe in the _________ form of the EMH, you believe that stock prices reflect all available information, including information that is available only to insiders.
• Which of the following statement(s) is/are true? I. A unique characteristic line is plotted for each security to determine the beta. II. For a characteristic line, the X-axis represents betas for different securities. III. The slope of the characteristic line is the difference between the market returns andrisk-free returns.
• Stock returns are generally expected to be independent across weekdays, but a number of studies have found returns on Monday to be lower than in the rest of the week. This departure from market efficiency is also sometimes called the _____ effect.
• The beta of an active portfolio is 1.20. The standard deviation of the returns on the market index is 20%. The nonsystematic variance of the active portfolio is 1%. The standard deviation of the returns on the active portfolio is __________.
• Which of the following is/are disadvantage(s) of indexing of bond portfolio? I. Advisory fee schedule is high II. In past, returns earned by most active fund managers has much exceeded those of index portfolio III. Loss of opportunity for incremental returns.
• When ranking security returns, the data shows that the annualized returns are as follows, ranked from highest return to lowest return.
• Under ________ EMH investors cannot earn abnormal/superior profits on securities on a consistent basis.
• __________ is defined as the nth root of the product resulting from multiplying a series of returns together.
• If the market is _______, the period after a favorable (unfavorable) event would not generate returns beyond (less than) what is suggested by an equilibrium model such as CAPM