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Certified Treasury Professional Questions 311–315 (page: 64)

Senior management at ABC Company plans to make a large capital expenditure to bolster its infrastructure exactly one year from now. Their primary concern is to preserve the current capital position until the expected cash outlay. The majority of the cash at ABC Company is held in treasury notes, but management would like to also invest some of the money into corporate bonds and money market funds. Which investment objective BEST suits the needs of ABC Company?

XYZ Company experienced a substantial monetary loss due to over exposure to one particular sector of the stock market. The Treasurer had invested in companies tied to five different sectors, but violated the company investment policy by exceeding a 10% limit for any sector. In developing its investment policy, what should XYZ Company have considered to prevent this scenario?

A U.S. bank is actively trying to establish its operations in an emerging market country, but is not experiencing much success due to differences in the business culture. To gain some market share, an executive of the bank decides to give the son of a local dignitary a highly paid position in the organization. Furthermore, the dignitary is a person of interest on various terror watch lists.
Sanctions can be placed on the bank because the executive did NOT establish compliance with which of the following?

The Treasury Analyst at an investment firm has entered the company into a repurchase agreement with a counterparty at the direction of the Treasury Manager. The compliance office has determined that the trade was done in violation of the company investment policy. The Treasury Manager has the power to approve the execution of trades; however, the Treasury Analyst was not a designated trader on behalf of the firm. Which area of the investment policy was violated by the Treasury Analyst?

ABC Company’s Treasury department outsourced its overnight investment duties to XYZ Money Management. XYZ placed the funds received from ABC into corporate commercial paper, which has recently gone into default after numerous ratings downgrades. The investment policy of ABC Company states that all investments must be in investment grade commercial paper; however, the agreement gives XYZ the ability to make exceptions with the approval of the Treasurer of ABC Company. The Treasurer was never notified of the ratings downgrades. What role or responsibility, if any, was violated with regards to the investment policy?