In each of the sections below, are comments relating to how important the info is in relation to the exam, I hope this helps with your studying. 

Time Value of Money: Look at the sample questions on the website. I suspect that there will be about 5 time value questions.  Time value formulas WILL be provided.  This section includes Mean and Standard Deviation calculations.

Mutual Funds:    Probably about 5 questions.
    Load, No Load, Front-end Load, Back-end Load
    Dollar Cost Averaging
    Net Asset Value (NAV)
    Open-end, Closed-end
    Investment Objective

BONDS:    About 15 questions
Bond indenture,  Call provision, coupon rate, debenture, junk bonds, maturity date, par value, put provision, Treasury Bills/Notes/Bonds/Strips, Zero-coupon bonds.

Current yield, Expectations Hypothesis, Liquidity Preference Theory, Market Segmentation Theory, Term Structure of Interest Rates, Yield-to-Call, Yield-to-Maturity.

Federal Reserve: Discount Rate, Federal Funds Rate, Reserve Requirements, Open Market Operations, Fed. Chairman, Federal Open Market Committee.

Calculations that we need to aware of:
Coupon Yield, Current Yield, Yield-to-Maturity, Yield-to-Call, Bond Valuation, Converting a bond quotation into a price.

STOCKS:    About 15 questions
Business Cycle, Coincident Indicators, Discount Rate, Fiscal Policy, Lagging Indicators, Leading Indicators, Monetary Policy.

Bottom-Up Approach, Industry Life Cycles, Monopolies, Oligopolies, Pure Competition, Top-Down Approach.

Beta, General Dividend Valuation Model, Dividend Growth Model, Equity Risk Premium, Growth Companies, Growth Stock, Price-Earnings Ratio, Required Rate of Return, Risk-Free Rate.

OPTIONS:    About 15 questions
    Calls, Covered Options, Exercise (Strike) Price
    At-the-Money, In-the-Money, Out-of-the-Money
    Intrinsic Value, Naked Options, Option Clearing Corporation
    Put,  Speculative Premium.  Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model, you won't have to calculate it.  Elements of it are fair game for questions (like N(d1) and N(d2))

Brokerage Firms/Accounts:  About 6 questions.
Cash and margin accounts. Full Service vs Discount Firms. Types of Orders: Market, Limit, Stop Loss, Short Selling.  Short Covering, Days to Cover, Short Interest.

The final will be graded right after the exam is finished and the results will be posted on this page.

Email me if there are questions.