A risk analyst is implementing an enterprise risk management system at a bank. During the process, the analyst takes an inventory of risks faced by the bank and categorizes these risks as market, credit, or operational risks. Which of the following observations of the bank’s data should be considered unexpected if compared to similar industry data?
A bank employee has been manipulating suspense (transitory) accounts for a prolonged time, and this event was determined to be a significant operational incident. Which of the following time intervals in terms of the operational incident date is most likely to be the longest?
Liz Parker is a junior quantitative analyst who is preparing a report dealing with credit migration. An excerpt of her report contains the following statements:I. Future default probability will likely increase over time, especially for periods far into the future.II. When computing the default probability of a counterparty under a risk-neutral measure, we need to first determine the actual default probability.Which of Parker’s statements is (are) correct?
Imagine you are a risk manager at a mid-sized commercial bank that has experienced rapid growth over the past three years. Your bank, similar to Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), has asignificant reliance on uninsured deposits and a concentrated customer base. Given the recentfailure of SVB, primarily attributed to liquidity risk management deficiencies, your CEO hastasked you with reviewing and strengthening the bank’s liquidity risk management framework.Your review reveals several areas that mirror SVB’s situation, particularly concerning internalliquidity stress testing (ILST), the modeling of a 30-day liquidity buffer, and management'sresponsiveness to liquidity challenges. Based on the lessons learned from SVB's failure, which ofthe following actions should you prioritize to improve your bank’s liquidity risk management?
A portfolio manager is revising an equity portfolio with the goal of attaining theoptimal portfolio on the portfolio’s efficient frontier. The manager believes this goalcan be achieved by replacing a stock in the portfolio with a new stock that is not partof the existing portfolio and keeping the portfolio value constant. The managerconsiders the following alternative actions:• Action 1: Sell the stock with the highest marginal VaR and purchase anequivalent value of a new stock that would have the lowest marginal VaR in the portfolio.• Action 2: Sell a particular stock and purchase an equivalent value of a newstock, which would cause the ratio of expected excess returns to portfoliobeta for all stocks in the portfolio to be equal.• Action 3: Sell a particular stock and purchase an equivalent value of a newstock, which would cause the portfolio betas of all stocks in the portfolio to be equal.• Action 4: Sell a particular stock and purchase an equivalent value of a newstock, which would significantly decrease the portfolio standard deviationwithout changing the average excess portfolio return.Which of the actions above would create an optimal portfolio?