Exam 7: Managing Interest Rate Risk Using Off-Balance-Sheet Instruments

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Which of the following are contracts that give the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset at a pre-specified price for a specified time period?

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The writer of a bond call option:

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Which of the following statements is true?

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...is a residual risk that arises because the movement in a spot (cash) asset's price is not perfectly correlated with the movement in the price of the asset delivered under a futures or forward contract.

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Which of the following statements is true?

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Which of the following is a major difference between forwards and futures?

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Which of the following is an example of microhedging asset-side portfolio risk?

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In a put option on a bond, the:

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A call option is an agreement between a buyer and seller at time 0, when there is a contractual agreement that an asset will be exchanged for cash at some later date.

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Which of the following statements is true?

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What kind of interest rate swap (of liabilities) would an FI with a positive funding gap utilise to hedge interest rate risk exposure?

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The benefit of a futures exchange is:

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Which of the following statements is true?

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Which of the following statements is true?

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Which of the following statements is true?

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The final settlement in which all bought and sold futures contracts in existence at the close of trading in the contract month are settled at the cash settlement price is called a:

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The Sydney Futures Exchange only offers cash-settled contracts.

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What is a swap?

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Which of the following is true of the market price of a futures contract over time?

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Which of the following statements is true?

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