1. Cole Mutual Insurance Agency earned $24,456K in premiums in 2020 and reported a net taxable loss of $340,000K. They incurred claims of $15,123K during the year and had $10,789K in expenses. What was their combined ratio at the end of 2020?

2. Life companies are more heavily invested in corporate bonds and less in municipal bonds than P&C companies because some of their (Life) interest income is not taxed.

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True

False

3. What has contributed to the growth of pension plans?

4. The government corporation that insures pension benefits is

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B. Humpty Dumpty.

C. Bo Peep.

D. Mother Goose.

E. Penny Benny.

5. Since Social Security benefits are paid from current contributions, the system is a

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"pay-as-you-go" system.

defined contribution system.

privatized system.

overfunded system.

6. Most mutual fund investors choose the funds in which they invest.

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True

False

7. Your best guess of the size of the sovereign wealth fund of the United States:

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$3T

$400B

$0

just shy of the Norwegian National Fund

7. Covid and ETFs. Which one is false

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A. The Fed chose a single private company to initiate its ETF purchases.

B. The Fed had never purchased an ETF prior to Pandemic-related intervention.

C. Purchasing corporate bonds through ETFs was a faster way to purchase these bonds.

D. All of the corporate bonds purchased through ETFs were of investment grade.

8. The majority of corporate expansion is done through

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A. venture capital

B. retained earnings.

C. IPOs

D. hostile takeovers