Stanley Crux, CFA, a portfolio manager at NWS Asset Management Ltd, calls a friend to join him for dinner. The friend, a financial analyst at D&M Corporation declines the invitation and explains that she is performing due diligence on Orca Electronics, a company that D&M is about to acquire. After the phone call, Crux searches the Internet for any news of the acquisition but finds nothing. Upon verifying that Orca is on NWS’s approved stock list, Crux purchases Orca’s common stock and call options for the NWS clients. Two weeks later, D&M announces its intention to acquire Orca. The next day, Crux sells all of the Orca securities, giving the fund a profit of $ 3 million. According to the Standards of Practice Handbook, did Crux violate any CFA Institute Standards of Professional Conduct()
A. No.
B. Yes, because he traded on material nonpublic information.
C. Yes, because he only purchased stock and options for selective clients, not all clients.
参考答案:B
解析:
[分析]: 根据执业操守标准Ⅱ (A)(重要信息)的相关规定,会员不得利用重要非公开信息为自己或他人牟利。具体来讲,如果会员掌握了重要的非公开信息,且该信息有可能改变某项资产的市场价值,则会员不得自行或使他人基于该信息从事相关的投资活动。在本题中,在crux为其客户购进Orca公司的证券时,D&M公司收购Orca电子公司的信息并未对外公开,且在互联网上也无法查到任何相关信息,从而属于非公开信息的范畴。同时,考虑到上述信息极有可能对相关证券价格产生重大影响,因而Crux的上述行为违反了执业操守标准Ⅱ (A)的规定。 [考点] 资本市场诚信