Question 1

The board of directors of a growing asset management company is conducting a review of the firm’s approach to risk management. The board concludes that the firm should establish an ERM framework. Which of the following represents a key benefit that the firm will likely attain after establishing an ERM framework?

Options :

A : Allowing the company to determine and make use of a higher risk appetite

B : Finding the optimal reporting methodology for each risk function

C : Taking advantage of the new opportunities that create value on a standalone basis

D : Improving the top-down communication and coordination in the company

Answer: D

Question 2

A risk manager at an investment bank is examining the forward and futures contracts the bank’s clients use as hedging instruments. The manager compares the way the two types of contracts are priced, how profits and losses are calculated, and how decisions to offset or deliver against the contracts are made. Which of the following statements is correct?

Options :

A : When the price of an asset is positively correlated with interest rates, the forward contract will typically have a higher price than the futures contract.

B : The daily profit and loss on forward and futures contracts differ, since futures contracts realize profits and losses each day while forward contracts realize them at maturity.

C : Prices on similar forward and futures contracts will be the same due to the no-arbitrage relationship between forwards and futures.

D : If interest rates are higher than the income generated by a financial asset, delivery of the asset against the futures contract will take place on the latest date possible.

Answer: B

Question 3

A Swiss chemical company is considering issuing bonds to finance its planned expansion. A risk analyst involved in the capital raising program at the company is studying the external agency rating process to gain a better understanding of the implications of agency ratings for the firm’s financing plans. Which of the following statements is correct?

Options :

A : Rating agencies produce point-in-time ratings, as these are designed to provide the best current estimate of future default probabilities.

B : Rating agencies provide outlooks to indicate the potential for a change in rating in the short-term, and use watchlists to indicate medium-term changes.

C : Empirically, changes in bond and stock prices tend to be greater in cases of ratings downgrades than ratings upgrades.

D : Agency ratings tend to produce identical default rates for companies in the same industry but located in different countries.

Answer: C

Question 4

An analyst is regressing fund returns against the return on the Wilshire 5000 to determine whether beta is equal to 1.0. The analyst is trying to determine whether the number of observations should be increased. Which of the following is a reason why the test will have higher power if the number of observations is increased? The:

Options :

A : standard error of the regression will be lower.

B : constant of the regression will be closer to zero.

C : estimate of beta will be farther away from 1.0.

D : mean squared error of the regression will be lower.

Answer: A

Question 5

Robert Patterson, an options trader, believes that the return on options trading is higher on Mondays than on other days. In order to test his theory, he formulates a null hypothesis.Which of the following would be an appropriate null hypothesis? Returns on Mondays are:

Options :

A : less than returns on other days.

B : not less than returns on other days.

C : not greater than returns on other days.

D : greater than returns on other days.

Answer: C

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