As a portfolio manager, you have been reporting the progress, status and performance regularly and you have been doing a good job so far. Reports are the primary documents to communicate portfolio status and be able to balance the mix of portfolio components to best align with objectives. When it comes to optimizing a portfolio, how can risk reports be used?

In a portfolio you have a continuous interaction between the portfolio and its components. The approach is top down when it comes to offering guidelines and approaches and becomes bottom up when the components report status and progress to the portfolio. Metrics are used for measuring the performance. They need to be meaningful in order to be able to provide clear and logical targets, and in order to be able to be measured. Which guideline is used in order to develop meaningful measures?

Your company got recently acquired by another company and the strategic directions which your portfolio is based on have been changed. Which document do you, as a portfolio manager, change to reflect the new stakeholders and their expectations?

A problem related to internal corruption has occurred in your company. The CEO has setup a new management team and had to do budget cuts until the situation is stabilized. Your portfolio is highly affected by this budget cut and you were obliged to cancel a few components. What is your best course of action in this case?

Assume you recently were hired to be the first portfolio manager at the leading producer of soft drink beverages. While the company is well known for one product, it wants to be the leader in other products and services as well. When you were hired, you told the CEO it would take time to fully implement portfolio management, and you first would prepare a number of artifacts. He set up a Portfolio Review Board, and its members are reviewing your work. As they reviewed the portfolio management plan, one of the members suggested you prepare an in-depth portfolio performance plan. Your first step is to: