GLO_CWM_LVL_1 AAFM Chartered Wealth Manager (CWM) Global Examination Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)

Rs. 1.50 lakh settled on a trust for the benefit of Akash and Bina for life. They share the income in proportion of 3:2.Their ages on valuation date are 20 years and 16 years. The average annual income for the last three years on the valuation date is Rs. 15,000/-. Find out the value of life interest of Akash and Bina if the value of life interest of Re 1/- at the age of 20 years is 12.273 and at the age of 16 years is 12.534.

Compute Gross Total income and amount of loss allowed to be carried forward to next year:

Given the following information what is the expected return on the portfolio of two securities where both are held in equal weights?

Manmeet a 29 years old person has joined Met Life on 1/07/2011. His monthly salary (net salary) after deduction is Rs. 45000/. His monthly expenses details are as follows:

Assume Manmeet has taken his flat on rent from 01/07/ 2011. On 01/07/2011 he has cash in hand Rs.15000. What will be his cash in hand on 31/03/2012?

Jaya is the owner of two residential houses. She sold one house on 23-12-2011 for Rs.12,50,000 which was purchased by her on 25-4-1979 for Rs.80,000. The market value of the land as on 1-4-1981 was Rs.98,000. Expenses on transfer were 1.5% of the sale price. The entire sale proceeds was utilized to construct the first and second floor on her second house which she completed by 15-3-2010. Compute the capital gain for the assessment year 2012-13. [CII-12-13: 852,11-12: 785, 10-11:711, 83-84: 116]

Ramesh aged 50 could not save for his retirement till date but now decides to save Rs. 50000 per month till his retirement age of 65. He anticipates that the return in the first 5 years would be 13% p.a. next 5 years 10% and in the last 5 years 8% p.a. He wants to accumulate a corpus of Rs. 1.50 Crores till his retirement. Calculate the surplus or shortfall he would have on his retirement.

Mr. Pramod Jain (age 40 years) has life interest in a Trust property. The annual income from Trust property for last three years is as under:

The Trust has spent Rs. 5,000/- per year for collection of the income. The value of life interest of Re 1/- at the age of 40 is Rs. 10.093/-. The value of the property on the valuation date is Rs. 5 lakh. Find the value of life interest.

Pushkar completed the construction of a house property on 14.8.2008 with borrowed capital of Rs.800000 @ 12%. The loan was taken on 1.4.2006 and is still outstanding. The house was used for his own residence during the entire FY 10-11. Deduction U/S 24(B) for interest on borrowed capital for FY shall be

If a scheme has 45 cr units issued and has a Face Value of Rs. 10 and NAV is at 11.13, unit capital (Rs. Cr) would be equal to

Find out the taxable value of perquisite from the following particulars in case of an employee to whom the following assets held by the company were sold on 1.8.2012.

The assets were put to use by the company from the day they were purchased.

Vishal is working with Amex Ltd since October 1, 1997. He is entitled to a basic salary of Rs. 6,000 pm.Dearness Allowance is 40% of Basic Salary for retirement benefits. He retired from his job on December 1,2010 (4 months before the end of F.Y 2010-11) and shifted to his village. He is entitled to the following benefits at the time of retirement. Gratuity = Rs. 98,000. Pension from December 1, 2008 = Rs. 2,000 per month. Payment from recognized PF = Rs. 3,00,000. Encashment of earned leave for 150 days = Rs. 36,000. He was entitled to 40 days leave for every completed year of service. He got 50% of his pension commuted in lump sum w.e.f March 1, 2011 and received Rs. 1,20,000 as commuted pension. Vishal contributes Rs. 900 per month to RPF to which his employer contributes an equal amount. What will be the amount of un-commuted pension for Vishal that will form part of his total income for the A.Y. 2011-12?

You are considering an investment with the following cash flows. Your required return is 8%, you generally require a payback of 3 years and a discounted payback of 4 years. If your objective is to maximize your wealth, should you take this investment?

Consider the following information for three mutual funds:

Calculate Jensen measure (%)?

Mr.Rajesh ,35 years old sole business consultant of “Oriental Décor Import”California , USA. He arranges Indian Handicraft Products in India as per “Oriental Décor Import” orders. He earns 5% commission on goods purchased by “Oriental Décor Import”. The “Oriental Décor Import” has invited him in USA for inauguration of their 21 chain stores In USA and Europe and he has to expect to say long for providing Indian Handicraft Product Training to all staffs of the Company working in different chain stores. As a Chartered Wealth Manager he comes to you to plan his journey in such a manner so that he can get maximum tax benefits in the assessment Year 2010–11 from the residential status point of view. In the year 2008–09 was present in India only 80 days. What is the latest date when he can afford to leave India to get maximum tax benefits in the said assessment year?

An individual has recently purchased a house worth Rs. 40 lakh for self-occupation by availing housing loan of Rs. 28 lakh at 9.25% p.a. rate of interest. The tenure of loan is 18 years. He has Rs. 12 lakh financial assets at present. He is expected to save annually Rs. 2 lakh which he invests on a quarterly basis beginning a quarter from now in an instrument which is expected to provide return of 9% p.a. What would be his net worth five years from now? The value of the house which is for consumption purposes is not considered in the net worth so arrived.

Consider the following information for three mutual funds

Risk free return is 7%. Calculate Treynor measure?

Vinod joined on 01/01/90 in ABC Ltd. and retired on 01/01/2007.Employee paid leave encashment of Rs. 4,00,000/-. His last drawn salary is Rs. 25000/-. His last 10 months average salary is 23500/-. He availed 150 days leave during the service. What will be his taxable leave salary amount?

Given the following diversified mutual fund performance data, which fund has the best risk adjusted performance if the risk free rate of return is 5.7%

Calculate the death claim amount if the assured dies in the 25th year of the policy. Money back policy with SA of Rs. 50000. Term is 25 years. Survival benefits of 10% each paid at the end of 5th , 10th, 15th, and 20th years. Accrued bonus of Rs. 500 per thousand of SA.Interim bonus of Rs. 75 per 1000 of SA.

Mr. Reddy is 58 years old and has just retired from his company,and have a total retirement benefits of Rs. 29,37,500/-. His life expectancy is 75 years. He has a dream to take a world-trip after 2 years from now with an estimated current price of Rs. 4,00,000/-. He has finalized a flat of Rs. 15,00,000/- for immediate purchase. Calculate how long his corpus will run if his post retirement living expenses in the beginning of every year is Rs. 1,35,000/- considering inflation @ 4% and rate of return is 6% p.a.?

The following information regarding the equity shares of M/s V Ltd. is given

Calculate the EPS of M/s V Ltd. according to the traditional approach

You are considering investing in a following bond:

Your income tax rate is 34 percent and your capital gains tax is effectively 10 percent. Capital gains taxes are paid at the time of maturity on the difference between the purchase price and par value. What is your post-tax approximate yield to maturity on this bond?

Mr. Rajesh Rawat deposits Rs. 15,000 per month at the end of the month for 6.50 years in an account that pays a ROI of 8.80% per annum compounded quarterly. What will be the amount in the account after 6.50 years.?

Find the Human Life Value for a person who is 30 years old.He wishes to retire at age of 60. Interest rate is expected to be 12%. He spends Rs. 60000 on his personal clothing and Rs. 40,000 on his conveyance. He has paid Rs. 65000 as tax for the year. His gross annual income is Rs. 5 lakhs.

Mr. Ravi aged 28 years is a marketing professional who earns a salary of Rs. 50000 p.m. He is very concerned about his retirement expenses. For the same he has started saving Rs. 6000 p.m. regularly in a bank fixed deposit paying an interest of 9.5% p.a. since the age of 23.

At the age of 38, he is thinking of buying a house on his retirement which is 25 years away.

He has estimated that the price of the house at his retirement will be Rs. 4000000. Calculate the amount of retirement corpus accumulated by him and the extra savings he has to make at the age of 38 in order to purchase the house? (Inflation rate = 3% p.a.)

Mr. D'suza is a operations manager in a private company college in Hyderabad. During the previous year 2011-12, he gets the following emoluments:

He gets Rs. 17,500 as reimbursement from his employer in respect of medical expenditure incurred on treatment of his wife in a private clinic. Besides, he gets Rs.12, 300 as reimbursement from the employer in respect of books and journals purchased by him in discharging his official work.

He contributes 11% of his salary to statutory provident fund to which a matching contribution is made by the employer. During the year, he spends Rs.17, 000 for maintaining a car for going to the college. Determine his net income under the head salaries.

Vinod is projecting an income stream providing Rs. 2,000/- for first 3 months, Rs. 3,200 for next 2 months, Rs. 4,500 for next 1 month, Rs. 3,700 for next 6months and Rs. 800 for 2 months thereafter. Please calculate the Present Value of this cash stream if rate of interest is 9%

From the data given below, calculate the premium of a policy of Rs. 5 lac, for all the mentioned age groups?

Azhar aged 30 is a disciplined investor. He has started depositing Rs. 25,000 every year in an account that pays a return of 9% every year. He plans to increase his contribution by Rs. 5000 every year till his age 50. Calculate the amount he would be having in his account at this age.?

During the PY 2009-10 a Kariwala Charitable Trust earned an income of Rs. 7 lakh out of which Rs.5 lakh was received during the PY 2009-10 and the balance Rs. 2 lakh was received during the PY 2011-2012.In order to claim full exemption of Rs. 7 lakh in the PY 2009-10:

From the following information of assets assets and liabilities, the taxable wealth for:

What is the surrender value, if the sum assured is Rs. 100,000/-, DOC is 01/01/1997, endowment with profit 25 years, due date of last premium paid 01/01/2010. Premium to be paid semi-annually. Accrued bonus is 500 per thousand of SA. Surrender value factor is 19% ?

The Portfolio consists of two securities, X and Y in the ratio of 70:30. Given that

and covariance between them is 16%, what is the portfolio risk?

Mr. Chopra runs a Garment Factory, he is very concerned about his retirement and wants you to help him out in planning for it. His Current annual expenses are Rs. 12,00,000 which would be rising at an annual rate of 8% pre- retirement and 2% post retirement. His current age is 50 years and he wants to work till the age of 65. The expected life expectancy in his family is 75 years. Calculate the monthly contribution he must make till his retirement if the pre- retirement returns are 12% p.a. compounded monthly and post-retirement returns are 8% pea compounded annually.?

Shri Ganjarwala Charitable Trust (Regd.) submits the particulars of its income/outgoing for the previous year 2009-2010 as below:

The trust spends Rs 2,77,500 during the previous year 2009-2010 for charitable purposes. In respect of Rs 5,20,000, it has exercised its option to spend it within the permissible time-limit in the year of receipt or in the year, immediately following the year of receipt.

The trust spends Rs 2,00,000 during the previous year 2009-2010 and Rs 1,00,000 during the previous year 2010-2011.

Compute the tax payable on the income of the trust.

You wish to save for your son’s education the present cost of which is Rs. 320000 and is expected to increase by 6% every year. If your son is 12 years old and will require money in 8 years time, what is the annual amount of investment to be made if it is likely to earn 12% rate of return?

Mr. Shyam has a portfolio consisting of two stocks A & B. Stock A has a standard deviation of 5 % while stock B has a standard deviation of 15%. Stock A comprises 40% of the portfolio and Stock B consists of 60%. If the correlation of returns of A& B is .5, the variance of return on the portfolio is _________.

Michael estimates opportunity cost of investment to be 10.5% compounded annually. Which of the following is the best proposal?

Mr. Sachdeva is working as a regional head in a Pharmaceutical Company in New Delhi. He has a annual income of Rs. 10,00,000. His current expenses are Rs. 5,00,000 and he will be retiring in next ten years . The inflation rate for the foreseeable future is expected to be 5%. He assumes that his post retirement expenses will be 70% of his last year expenses of his service and they will increase at inflation rate and paid at the beginning of each year.

On his retirement he plans to leave his current rented apartment and shift into a another apartment located in NCR . The current price of the bungalow is Rs. 24 lakh which is estimated to increase in line with inflation rate. A ten year government security paper fetches 10% interest rate, which will remain constant for the forthcoming period. He is in good health and expects to live for twenty years after retirement.

As a CWM you are required to calculate the amount Mr. Sachdeva needs to save at the end of ten years on an annual basis so that he can pay his post retirement expenses as well as to buy the apartment.