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An operational risk analyst at a large bank is preparing a year-end report of thebank’s operational loss events. The analyst uses the Basel operational risktaxonomy to classify different events into Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. As part ofthis process, the analyst considers the following four events that occurred during the year:• A sales representative in the lending department forged a senior manager’ssignature to approve an application for a large commercial loan that defaulted.• The bank failed to deliver sufficient collateral to support a swap position,which was later terminated at a loss.• Several managers in the bank’s wealth management group were found tohave misused confidential customer information by sharing this informationwith other employees and a third-party vendor representative.• Some personal customer information was stolen in a cyber-attack in whichan external hacker broke into a database stored in the cloud.In classifying the four events and considering the Basel taxonomy in general, whichof the following actions would be most appropriate for the analyst to take?

A portfolio manager at a US-based hedge fund has been searching for potentialreturn opportunities in the environment of declining global interest rates experiencedafter the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009. The manager identifies theexistence of a positive cross-currency basis between two currencies and notes thatthis positive basis has persisted since the GFC. What is the most appropriateexplanation for this persistence?

A presentation provided to executive leadership on the top 10 risks an entity is facing should include all of the following except:

A risk manager uses the past 480 months of correlation data from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow) to estimate the long-run mean correlation of common stocks and the mean reversion rate. Based on this historical data, the long-run mean correlation of Dow stocks was 34%, and the regression output estimates the following regression relationship: Y = 0.262 − 0.77X. Suppose that in April 2014, the average monthly correlation for all Dow stocks was 33%. What is the estimated one-period autocorrelation for this time period based on the mean reversion rate estimated in the regression analysis?

Which of the following statements about expected shortfall estimates and coherent risk measures are true?