The chief investment officer (CIO) of a large university endowment fund isconsidering adding some illiquid assets to improve the performance of theuniversity’s investment portfolio. The CIO asks an investment manager to prepare areport discussing the characteristics of illiquid asset returns. The manager reviewsthe dynamics of illiquid assets and the determinants of their returns. Which of thefollowing is a correct statement for the manager to include in the report?
An analyst at a commercial bank is evaluating how the bank applies historicalsimulation (HS) to estimate VaR and ES. The analyst focuses on the approachesused for weighting past return observations, including the age-weighted, volatilityweighted,correlation-weighted, and filtered HS approaches. Which of the followingstatements is correct regarding the given weighting approach?
A credit analyst is evaluating the liquidity of a small regional bank while preparing a report for a credit committee meeting. With quarterly financial statements, the analyst calculates some relevant liquidity indicators over the past three years. Which of the following trends over this period should the analyst be most concerned about in the credit risk report?
If the unconditional default probability of a Ba-rated bond during Year 3 is 1.914% and the probability of survival through Year 2 is 97.413%, the probability of a default during Year 3, conditional on no earlier default, is closest to: