2010 Financial Risk Manager (FRM)
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Latest Blog
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Convexity L1 [practice, products] 09 Mar 2010
26. Bonds issued by the XYZ Corp. are currently callable at par value and trade close to par. The bonds mature in 8 years and … read more
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Long-term capital management, LTCM [foundation] 09 Mar 2010
AIM: Describe the factors that led to the downfall of Long‐Term Capital Management (LTCM). About LTCM LTCM was formed in 1994 by about a dozen partners. … read more
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Financial crisis at Metallgesellschaft [foundation] 09 Mar 2010
AIM: Identify and discuss the factors that led to the financial crisis at Metallgesellschaft (MG) You can also find a good resource at PRMIA Web-based Study … read more
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Treasury bond futures L1 [practice, products] 08 Mar 2010
25. Nicholas is responsible for the asset and liability management of JerseyBeech Bank, a small retail bank with USD 300 million in interest-bearing assets that … read more
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Kidder Peabody [foundations] 08 Mar 2010
AIM: Describe the key factors that led to and the lessons learned from the Kidder Peabody case study About Kidder Peabody Between 1992 and 1994, Joseph … read more
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Chase and Drysdale Securities [foundation] 08 Mar 2010
AIM: Describe the key factors that led to and the lessons learned from Drysdale Securities Allen divides financial disasters into three types: cases where investors … read more
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Bankruptcy of Barings [foundation] 08 Mar 2010
AIM: Describe the factors that led to the bankruptcy of Barings. Nick Leeson was general manager of the Barings Futures (Singapore) office. He created a fictitious … read more
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Week in risk (3/5/2010) 07 Mar 2010
We conducted the first live webinar review (FRM Level 1) on Saturday. Reminder to paid members: the recording of the webinar (and the associated PowerPoint deck) … read more
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Put-call parity L1 [practice, products] 05 Mar 2010
24. The current price of stock ABC is USD 42 and the call option with a strike at USD 44 is trading at USD 3. Expiration … read more
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Covariance L1 [practice, quantitative] 04 Mar 2010
23. Let X and Y be two random variables representing the annual returns of two different portfolios. If E[X] = 3, E[Y] = 4 and E[XY] … read more
Latest Training Video
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2010 5.d Market Risk (sample) 26 Feb 2010
Coherent risk measures (expected shortfall); Extreme value theory (EVT) - Dowd Chapters 3, 4, 5 & 7; MBS Chapters Fabozzi Chapters 1 & 31 read more
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2010 5.c Market Risk (sample) 26 Feb 2010
Backtesting VaR; VaR Mapping (Jorion - Chapters 6 & 11) read more
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2010 5.b Market Risk (sample) 26 Feb 2010
Measures of Price Sensitivity Based on Parallel Yield Shifts; Key Rate Exposures; Science of Term Structure; Mortgage-backed Securities (Bruce Tuckman Chapters 6,7,9 and 21) read more
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2010 5.a Market Risk (sample) 26 Feb 2010
Volatility Smiles (Hull Chapter 18); Exotic Options (Hull Chapter 24) read more
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2010 2.c Quantitative (sample) 26 Feb 2010
Fat‐Tailed & Skewed Distributions - Rachev (Chapter 2 & 3); Quantifying Volatility in VaR - Linda Allen (Chapter 2) read more
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2010 2.b Quantitative (sample) 26 Feb 2010
Jorion, Value at Risk (Chapter 12); Hull, Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (Chapter 21) read more
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2010 2.a Quantitative (sample) 26 Feb 2010
Gujarati, Essentials of Econometrics – Chapter 1-8 (statistical inference and regression) read more
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2010 1.b Foundations (sample) 12 Feb 2010
Investors and Risk Management (Stulz, Chapter 2); Creating Value with Risk Management (Stulz, Chapter 3); Risk Management Failures: What are They and When Do They Happen? … read more
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2010 1.a Foundations (sample) 12 Feb 2010
Investors and Risk Management (Stulz, Chapter 2); Creating Value with Risk Management (Stulz, Chapter 3); Risk Management Failures: What are They and When Do They Happen? … read more
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2009 9.b Current Issues (UBS, Stress, Lo) - sample 04 Nov 2009
Shareholder Report on UBS’s Write‐Downs; Why Banks Failed the Stress Test; Andrew Lo's Testimony on Hedge Funds read more
Forum Q&A
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Early Enrolment for FRM Part 1 Nov2010 10 Mar 2010
Export Credit Insurers under the Basel II framework 08 Mar 2010
Panel Data in Excel 07 Mar 2010
2010 Sample Exam Level 1 - question 15 07 Mar 2010
Foundations 1b Tutorial 07 Mar 2010
Testimonials
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Hello David, At last the good news, yes I have passed the exam in addition to the PRM exams and that gives me a unique position vis-a-vis others. My scores were … Jyothi
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It's striking how easy difficult concepts become when David explains them. Having used the prep services of another course provider too (well, actually I started off with that other provider and … Respondant to BT FRM Course survey sent 1/14/2010
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Dear David, I am very happy to say that I passed the full FRM exam. I am glad to have studied with BT and am truly grateful for your commitment in … Pierre
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- David , great stuff , thanks for helping me pass FRM Full exam Nov 2009 , your website is so compelling that even now I keenly … 08 Mar 2010
- You are a recent graduate working with a large financial consulting firm as part of their graduate program. You have spent the previous couple of weeks … 07 Mar 2010
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- Hi David, I am too late for May 2010. Since I would not get much time to study, I was wondering if I can buy the …10 Mar 2010
- Hi David, IIn slide 15, you summarised the firm’s different beta’s to show the hedging irrelevance proposition. My question is how did you calculate the different …09 Mar 2010
- Hi David i think i am missing something…... the formula for duration is (p2-p1)/(2*po*y1-y0) when i use that i get (106.3-105.8)/(2*106.1*.0005)=4.7 half of the answer - …09 Mar 2010