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Financial Risk and Regulation (FRR) Series Questions 66–70 (page: 35)

Updated On: 9-Feb-2026

Which one of the four following statements about back testing the VaR models is correct?

Back testing requires

  1. Plotting VaR forecasts against the proportion of daily losses exceeding the average loss.
  2. Comparing the predictive ability of VaR on a daily basis to the realized daily profits and losses.
  3. Plotting the daily profit and losses along with the ranges predicted by VaR models
  4. Determining the proportion of daily profits exceeding those predicted by VaR.

Answer(s): B



On January 1, 2010 the TED (treasury-euro dollar) spread was 0.9%, and on January 31, 2010 the TED spread is 0.4%. As a risk manager, how would you interpret this change?

  1. The decrease in the TED spread indicates a decrease in credit risk on interbank loans.
  2. The decrease in the TED spread indicates an increase in credit risk on interbank loans.
  3. Increase in interest rates on both interbank loans and T-bills.
  4. Increase in credit risk on T-bills.

Answer(s): A



Which one of the following four physical commodities markets has the right combination of characteristics that generally allows short selling in the market, without making the short-selling transaction prohibitively expensive?

  1. Oil
  2. Natural Gas
  3. Grain
  4. Gold

Answer(s): D



Which of the following statements about the option gamma is correct? Gamma is the
I) Second derivative of the option value with respect to the volatility.
II) Percentage change in option value per percentage change in the price of the underlying instrument.
III) Second derivative of the value function with respect to the price of the underlying instrument.
IV) Rate of change of the option delta with respect to changes in the underlying price.

  1. I only
  2. II and III
  3. III and IV
  4. II, III, and IV

Answer(s): C



In analyzing the historical performance of a financial product, you are concerned about "fat tails", the probability of extreme returns compared to realized returns.
Which of the following measures should you use to determine if the product return distribution of the product has "fat tails"?

  1. Mean
  2. Standard deviation
  3. Skewness
  4. Kurtosis

Answer(s): D



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