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?