Education
- Overview
- 01 Introduction to ERM
- 02 External risk frameworks
- 03 The ERM process
- 04 Risk classification
- 05 Risk measurement
- 06 Introduction to risk modelling
- 07 Quantitative analysis of financial data
- 08 Further risk modelling
- 09 Analysis of different types of risk
- 10 Risk optimisation and responses to risk
- 11 Risk Mitigation
- 12 Capital Management
Risk Measurement
These questions cover the definition and calculation of various risk measures
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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
Which one of the following is the correct definition of value at risk (VaR)?
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The maximum amount that will be lost over a particular holding period with a particular degree of confidence
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Question 2 of 5
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The 95% ten-day value at risk for a particular portfolio is GBP 250,000. Which of the following could reasonably be the 95% ten-day tail value at risk (tail VaR)?
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The tail VaR must be greater than the VaR, as it is the average of the expected losses beyond the VaR
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Which one of these is not needed for the calculation of the CAPM expected rate of return of an investment X?
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The covariance of the return available from the risk-free investment and the universe of investment opportunities is always zero
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Which one of these is the correct definition of the information ratio?
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5. Question
Which one of the following statements about the parametric value at risk (VaR) is correct?
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Although historical returns may be used to parameterise the distribution used for parametric VaR, they are only needed for empirical VaR; a stochastic asset model is needed for stochastic VaR; whilst the normal distribution is often used, other distributions can be applied; and the calculation of parametric VaR is not computationally intense
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