Which one of the following four statements correctly defines credit risk?
Which one of the following four attributes would likely help a trader using exchange-traded options to
establish a leveraged position?
Banks duration match their assets and liabilities to manage their interest risk in their banking book. A bank has
$100 million in interest rate sensitive assets and $100 million in interest rate sensitive liabilities. Currently the
bank's assets have a duration of 5 and its liabilities have a duration of 2. The asset-liability management
committee of the bank is in the process of duration-matching. Which of the following actions would best
match the durations?
Typically, which one of the following four option risk measures will be used to determine the number of
options to use to hedge the underlying position?
What are some of the drawbacks of correlation estimates? Which of the following statements identifies major
problems with correlation calculations?
I. Correlation estimates are not able to capture increases in factor co-movements in extreme market scenarios.
II. Correlation estimates tend to be unstable.
III. Historical correlations may not forecast future correlations correctly.
IV. Correlation estimates assume normally distributed returns.
