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Back-testing VaR is: (a) Not relevant. All of the underlying assumptions are correct and hold in reality. Similar assumptions are used in most financial models. (b) Extremely important. There are many underlying assumptions, which may or may not hold in reality. (c) A waste of time. It’s just
Which assumption underlying VaR is the most important yet most questionable? (a) Distributional (b) Nonnegativity (c) Random walk (d) Stationarity (e) Time consistency
You may have noticed that VaR is reported as a positive number. What would a negative VaR suggest? (a) VaR is undefined. (b) Losses could be really, really bad. (c) There is a high likelihood of making a profit.
Assume a portfolio is currently worth $250 million. If the portfolio has volatility of 12 percent and a holding period of 15 business days, what is the VaR estimate with 97.5 percent confidence? Now assume the portfolio has volatility of 35 percent, what is the VaR estimate? Interpret the results.
Calculate the monthly VaR at the 99 percent and 90 percent confidence level for various market segments given below. These are average value weighted returns obtained from http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/data_library.html. The data include monthly returns from July 1926
What happens when markets are behaving irrationally? Do VaR estimates hold up in these types of circumstances?
How does efficient frontier analysis differ from other forms of complex risk assessment techniques?
What limitations might an analyst encounter through the use of efficient frontier analysis?
How can efficient frontier analysis results be communicated and utilized with nonmathematical decision makers?
What is your assessment of the situation?
What advice would you provide to the board of Bim Consultants?
What pitfalls should they be concerned with?
What were some of the risk sources that emerged repeatedly in evaluating the risks? How is this helpful?
How would this risk assessment aid in the decision on whether or not to proceed with the new HR strategy?
What are Jason’s options? Can he accept a risk management program that does not involve the legal department?
Do you agree with George’s arguments? Are they valid?
How would you proceed, if you were the risk officer?
If you were conducting interviews of the Akawini management team so that you could draw objective conclusions for the review described in the chapter, what questions would you ask?
What would you expect to see in the first year risk management transformation plan? What would be the typical tasks?
You have been asked to advise the Akawini management team on how they should promote and monitor the transformation of risk management in their business. What performance measures would you recommend they use so that they can monitor progress and performance?
What is your assessment of the situation at Chessfield?
What recommendations would you provide to the regulator?
Governance regulation of Chessfield;Chessfield is a well-known American company in the sports and entertainment industry. It is headquartered in New York, and is led and governed by an outspoken and successful CEO and a blue-chip board of directors. Several directors are household names and have
What are the learnings and broader implications of this case?
How does Ray’s strategic objective translate to the operational level, that is, what is his key operational objective(s) for the wholesale business line?
What performance drivers, that is, the internal capabilities (e.g., people, processes, and systems), and external factors need to be present to achieve operational success?
What are the risk factors that drive the uncertainty around achieving operational objectives?
Which risk drivers are most likely to impact operational objectives?
How large of an impact might those key risk factors have? Use scenario analysis to explore the full range of potential outcomes.
Based on your analysis, what are the “significant few” factors on which Ray should focus his attention to manage the operational risks associated with the new facility?
What underlying assumptions underpin your analysis and conclusions?
What are the preconditions for conducting constructive dialogue in an organization?
Is effective risk management possible without constructive dialogue?
What are the forces that tend to undermine effective risk management in an organization?
Given its obvious value in helping an organization to understand the major risks that could prevent it from accomplishing its mission and objectives, why was the financial sector, including a risk-sensitive organization such as Goldman Sachs, so slow in adopting ERM?
If you are a bank examiner, what are the signals you would find that would show that a bank is engaging in good risk management?
If you are a bank examiner, what are the signals you would find that would show that a bank is failing to engage in good risk management?
List and describe the challenges of implementing ERM in Poland.
The quality of risk management depends on many criteria. Discuss the criteria that can be used.
What were the main drivers for ERM implementation in Poland?
What are the pros and cons of having risk officers as part-time assignments within different functions and business units?
Can you think of a company whose strategy failed due to their failing to consider the actions of external players?
Do you think that companies need to experience a crisis to take risk seriously?
Identify some reasons why risk management practices might not take off and/or be embedded effectively in an investee company.
Who should participate in the ERM process to ensure successful implementation of this on-going program?
What should the CEO’s role be for the successful implementation and on-going performance of an ERM process?
How will senior management benefit from supporting ERM implementation?
Does ERM require reporting to executive management? If so, what types of reports are most suitable for executive management?
What do you think is the best approach in ensuring a successful implementation of ERM?Please provide a few different elements.
Regulators calculate that DLC bank (see Section 2.2) will report a profit that is normally distributed with a mean of $0.6 million and a standard deviation of $2.0 million. How much equity capital in addition to that in Table 2.2 should regulators require for there to be a 99.9% chance of the
An investor buys 100 shares in a mutual fund on January 1, 2018, for $50 each. The fund earns dividends of $2 and $3 per share during 2018 and 2019. These are reinvested in the fund. The fund’s realized capital gains in 2018 and 2019 are $5 per share and $3 per share, respectively. The
The price of gold is currently $1,500 per ounce. The forward price for delivery in one year is $1,700. An arbitrageur can borrow money at 5% per annum. What should the arbitrageur do? Assume that the cost of storing gold is zero and that gold provides no income.
Prove(a) That the definitions of duration in equations (9.1) and (9.3) are the same when y is continuously compounded and(b) That when y is compounded m times per year they are the same if the right-hand side of equation (9.3) is divided by 1 + y/m.
The “weighting-of-observations” procedure in Section 13.3 gives the one-day 99% VaR equal to $282,204 and the one-day ES as $400,914. Use the spreadsheets on the author’s website to calculate these measures when the l parameter in this procedure is changed from 0.995 to 0.99.
The first “volatility-scaling” procedure in Section 13.3 gives the one-day 99% VaR equal to $602,968 and the one-day 99% ES equal to $786,855. Use the spreadsheets on the author’s website to calculate the VaR and ES when the l parameter in this procedure is changed from 0.94 to 0.92.
“Some aspects of the new regulations can be expected to increase the amount of collateral posted for derivatives and some can be expected to reduce it.” Explain this statement.
Consider a delta-neutral position in a single asset with a gamma (measured with respect to percentage changes in the asset) of g (g > 0). Suppose that the 10-day return on the asset is normally distributed with a mean of zero and a standard deviation s. (a) What is an expression for the
A bank has a business indicator (BI) of of 5.5 billion euros. It has had eight operational risk losses in the last 10 years. The amounts of the losses in millions of euros are: 3, 7, 15, 65, 85, 150, 250, and 300. What is the bank's operational risk regulatory capital under the standardized
A fund's risk appetite is such that it wants to be 97.5% certain it will not lose more than 25% in any one year. Using the performance of the S&P 500 between 1997 and 2016 (see Table 27.2), determine the beta the fund should have. Assume a risk-free rate of 2.5% per annum.
Look at the data in Table 28.1. Is Lending Club good at assessing risk? Is there a reasonable trade-off between risk and return for lenders? What risks are lenders taking?
What is meant by a bubble? Consider whether the increase in the price of bitcoin in 2017 is a bubble.
With the benefit of hindsight, we can say that Kodak was in the “imaging and moment-sharing business.” What business are banks in?

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