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What is a common implicit assumption that is made when computing VaR using parametric methods?

Arnold Wu owns a floating rate bond. He is concerned that the rates may fall in the future decreasing his payment amount. Which of the following instruments should he buy to hedge against the fall in interest rates?

An options trader for a large institutional investor takes a long equity option position. Which of the following risks need to be considered when taking this position?

I. All the risks of underlying equities

II. Perceived volatility changes

III. Future dividends yields

IV. Risk-free interest rates

The probability of default on a bond is 3%, and in the case of default, investors expect to lose 70% of their investment. The bond's risk premium is 1.9%. The expected loss and the credit spread of the bond are, respectively:

Which one of the following four exercise features is typical for the most exchange-traded equity options?

On January 1, 2010 the TED (treasury-euro dollar) spread was 0.9%, and on January 31, 2010 the TED spread is 0.4%. As a risk manager, how would you interpret this change?

James Johnson bought a 3-year plain vanilla bond that has yield of 4.7% and 4% coupon paid annually, for $87,139. Macauley's duration of the bond is 2.94 years. Rate volatility is 20% of the yield. The bond's annualized volatility is therefore:

A large multinational bank is concerned that their duration measures may not be accurate since the yield curve shifts are not parallel. Which of the following statements would be typically observed regarding variability of interest rates?

Which one of the following four interest rate related yield curves is used to revalue loan and deposit positions in banks?

Which one of the following four physical commodities markets has the right combination of characteristics that generally allows short selling in the market, without making the short-selling transaction prohibitively expensive?

Which one of the following four relationships should be used to price equity forwards or futures?

Which one of the following four statements represents a possible disadvantage of using total return swap to manage equity portfolio risks?

To hedge equity exposure without buying or selling shares of stock or otherwise rebalancing the portfolio, a risk manager could initiate

Which one of the four following activities is NOT a component of the daily VaR computing process?

James Arthur is a customer of a bank who has taken a floating rate loan from the bank. He is concerned that the rates may rise in the future increasing his payment amount. Which of the following instruments should he buy to hedge against the rise in interest rates?

When the cost of gold is $1,100 per bullion and the 3-month forward contract trades at $900, a commodity trader seeks out arbitrage opportunities in this relationship. To capitalize on any arbitrage opportunities, the trader could implement which one of the following four strategies?

James Johnson bought a coupon bond yielding 4.7% for $1,000. Assuming that the price drops to $976 when yield increases to 4.71%, what is the PVBP of the bond.

Which of the following statements describes a bank's reasons to set risk limits?

I. To control and minimize a bank's current risk exposure.

II. To predict future risks.

III. To allocate risks to business units.

IV. To keep risk within tolerance levels.

Which one of the following four statements correctly defines a typical carry trade?

Which of the following statements depicts a difference between funding liquidity risks and trading liquidity risks?

Alpha Bank, a small bank,has a long position with larger BetaBank and has an identical short position with another larger bank GammaBank. Each large bank requires a 20% initial collateral to support the trade. As prices fluctuate in either direction, one large bank will require additional collateral from the small bank, while the risk of loss to the other large bank will increase. By running the trades through a clearinghouse, the small bank can achieve all of the following objectives EXCEPT:

Which statements correctly describe the features of using subscription databases for operational loss data analysis?

Subscription databases

I. Provide central data repositories and benchmarking services to their members.

II. Can provide insight into whether the losses in a firm reflect the usual losses in their industry.

III. Assist with mapping the events to the appropriate business lines, risk categories and causes.

IV. Reflect only events that are interesting to the press and are reported in the press.

Which of the following statements about endogenous and external types of liquidity are accurate?

I. Endogenous liquidity is the liquidity inherent in the bank's assets themselves.

II. External liquidity is the liquidity provided by the bank's liquidity structure to fund its assets and maturing liabilities.

III. External liquidity is the non-contractual and contingent capital supplied by investors to support the bank in times of liquidity stress.

IV. Endogenous liquidity is the same as funding liquidity.

The main building blocks of an operational risk framework include all of the following options EXCEPT:

A customer asks a broker employed by AlphaBank to buy Eureka Corporation bonds for her account. While this trade was executed correctly and the bonds were bought, the trade was mistakenly accounted for as a sell order. If the price of Eureka Corporation bonds goes up, this trade would result in a significantly larger loss than if the market had remained stable. However, if the market drops, the customer will benefit from the incorrect accounting and gain from this trade. This trading scenario can serve as an example that

An asset and liability manager for a large financial institution has to recognize that retail products ___ include embedded options, which are often not rationally exercised, while wholesale products ___ carry penalties for repayment or include rights to terminate wholesale contracts on very different terms than are common in retail products.

An asset-sensitive bank will have a ___ cumulative gap and will benefit from ___ interest rates.

DeltaFin wants to develop a control scoring method for its RCSA program. Which of the following statements regarding scoring methods are correct?

I. DeltaFin can develop a control scoring method that assesses both the design and the performance of the control.

II. DeltaFin can combine the design and performance scores for each control to produce an overall control effectiveness score.

III. DeltaFin can use the control performance scores to compute an overall risk severity score.

IV. DeltaFin can determine its own appropriate control scoring method.

Which one of the four following statements about drawdowns is correct?

Bank Alpha is making a decision about lending 10-year loans in a sector that is fairly illiquid and is looking at various options to fund the loans. Which of the following options to fund the loans exhibits the most exogenous liquidity risk?

Which of the following are among the main uses of risk reports?

I. Identification of exceptional situations that require managerial attention.

II. Display the relative risk among different trades.

III. Specify how RAROC will be maximized within the bank.

IV. Estimate the overall risk levels of the bank.

To reduce the variability of net interest income, Gamma Bank can swap positions that make its duration gap equal to

Which one of the four following statements describes a specific characteristic of risk and control self-assessments (RCSA) which distinguishes it from both control assessments and risk and control assessments?

Which one of the following four examples would not be considered a typical source of market risk?

A risk manager has a long forward position of USD 1 million but the option portfolio decreases JPY 0.50 for every JPY 1 increase in his forward position. At first approximation, what is the overall result of the options positions?

Which of the following statements about the interest rates and option prices is correct?

As DeltaBank explores the securitization business, it is most likely to embrace securitization to:

I. Bring transparency to the bank's balance sheet

II. Create a new profit center for the bank

III. Strategically release risk capital and regulatory capital for redeployment

IV. Generate cash for additional debt origination

For which one of the following four reasons do corporate customers use foreign exchange derivatives?

I. To lock in the current value of foreign-denominated receivables

II. To lock in the current value of foreign-denominated payables

III. To lock in the value of expected future foreign-denominated receivables

IV. To lock in the value of expected future foreign-denominated payables

Which one of the following four statements correctly defines credit risk?

What is the explanation offered by the liquidity preference theory for the upward sloping yield curve shape?

To estimate the interest charges on the loan, an analyst should use one of the following four formulas:

Changes to which one of the following four factors would typically not increase the cost of credit?

According to a Moody's study, the most important drivers of the loss given default historically have been all of the following EXCEPT:

I. Debt type and seniority

II. Macroeconomic environment

III. Obligor asset type

IV. Recourse

To safeguard its capital and obtain insurance if the borrowers cannot repay their loans, Gamma Bank accepts financial collateral to manage its credit risk and mitigate the effect of the borrowers' defaults. Gamma Bank will typically accept all of the following instruments as financial collateral EXCEPT?

In the United States, Which one of the following four options represents the largest component of securitized debt?

A credit analyst wants to determine a good pricing strategy to compensate for credit decisions that might have been made incorrectly. When analyzing her credit portfolio, the analyst focuses on the spreads in each loan to determine if they are sufficient to compensate the bank for all of the following costs and risks EXCEPT.

Beta Insurance Company is only allowed to invest in investment grade bonds. To maximize the interest income, Beta Insurance Company should invest in bonds with which of the following ratings?

Which one of the following four options does NOT represent a benefit of compensating balances to the bank?

A credit associate extending a loan to an obligor suspects that the obligor may change his behavior after the loan has been originated. The obligor in this case may use the loan proceeds for purposes not sanctioned by the lender, thereby increasing the risk of default. Hence, the credit associate must estimate the probability of default based on the assumptions about the applicability of the following tendency to this lending situation:

Which one of the following statements about futures contracts is correct?

I. Futures contracts are subject to the same risks as the underlying instruments.

II. Futures contracts have additional interest rate risk die to the future delivery date.

III. Futures contracts traded in a clearinghouse system are exposed to credit risk with numerous counterparties.

Which one of the following four formulas correctly identifies the expected loss for all credit instruments?