So you read this issue of Benefits Canada, but were you paying attention? Take our pop quiz and find out!
1This investment strategy blurs the lines between active and passive investing by focusing on specific factors beyond the broad passive market exposure offered by traditional market cap-weighted indexes.
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Ⓐ Smart beta
Ⓑ Dumb beta
Ⓒ Smart alpha
Ⓓ Alpha beta
2 “Research shows this demographic group has a preference for personalized or voluntary benefits, including reduced-cost gym memberships or on-site facilities for fitness and health promotion.”
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Ⓐ Early career
Ⓑ Mid-career
Ⓒ Late career
Ⓓ What career?
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___________ employees feel recognition, inspiration and pay cause them to do great work, while ___________ employees feel recognition and then autonomy causes them to do great work.
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Ⓐ Help for team-building
Ⓑ High-format trading
Ⓒ High-frequency trading
Ⓓ Hungry for tacos
5 What is one strategy to mitigate interest rate risk?
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Ⓐ Pretend it doesn’t exist
Ⓑ Consider global fixed income opportunities
Ⓒ Call the Bank of Canada to complain
Ⓓ Buy lots of equities
6 A 2014 survey of the Municipal Retirees Organization Ontario revealed 28% of the 1,580 respondents are:
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Ⓐ Exercising five times a week
Ⓑ Vacationing in Florida over the winter
Ⓒ Using online dating sites
Ⓓ Working at paid part-time post-retirement jobs
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- A) Smart beta
- A) Early career
- Younger; older
- C) High-frequency trading
- B) Consider global fixed income opportunities
- D) Working at paid part-time post-retirement jobs