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    November 17, 2012 Exam Results released - January 2, 2013

    Hi nabil, its keep you cool and wait for the results they should be out soon best of luck to everyone and hope all may pass.:) thanks
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    how?

    i would give you a simple example: A farmer has a produce of 20 tons of rice. Now to protect against any downside in prices in the future farmer can simply buy forward contracts wherein he enter into the agreement to sell at a fixed price of say $2000/ton at some future date when he would be...
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    FRM vs PRM?

    i dont know much about the prm nevertheless please visit the links: http://www.edupristine.com/blog/frm-vs-prm/ http://financeissimple.blogspot.in/2009/07/prm-vs-frm.html http://forum.bionicturtle.com/threads/about-frm-prm.173/ thanks
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    November 17, 2012 Exam Results released - January 2, 2013

    It happened with u hend but i have not tried like this before :). thus is really interesting that you knew u passed before the results were declared. yes many of the waiters of the results can just try this method but they should wait for the actual results to be declared.generally it happens...
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    FRM Vs CFA

    I saw many threads comparing the two exams. Its like comparing apples with oranges as to say which is better in taste. Some like oranges while some will say apple is tasty. Both will taste differently to different people. Lets compare on important aspects: On the level of questions appearing...
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    Frustrated with my FRM degree

    Hend, FRM degree will come handy at some point of time. may be when you are doing your work some day accidentely requires some risk related concepts sort of things which may require your knowledge gained during the frm program. You will definitely gain from the program if not loose. i hae seen...
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    getting nervous

    hi there, just wait for the results mail. and the results on their website. Just dont take an inference from anywhere. Just have patience. thanks
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    CFA CFA for a poor man from Zimbabwe

    Hi tmangonoo, Yes you can always this. Majority of the topics do not change as i know of cfa curriculum from year to to year even if this happens then changes are not major just minor. Majority of the topics remains untouched and there remains the same stuff. Yes i have tried the same stuff as...
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    credit risk

    Credit risk is determining the financial position of the company that is how strong is firm's repaying capacity, what the nature of debt taken by the firm and how it is paying the debt. it is important to know the financial ratios of the firm and various margins. for this you should know the...
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    Valuation for high growth companies

    Yes Ruben you have taken the capex distribution over the forecast period but have you tried to see as what is the capex is like and over what period it will earn me returns is lie , i mean have you tried to research or anything given like this. If the capex is a fixed investment then it would...
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    Valuation for high growth companies

    Hi there, This is extraordinary capex and happens once in many time if it is an extraordinary capex that they are having (see if the capex value departs very greatly from the previous capexes) then it would not be wise to include the entire capex in that year only what you can do is 1...
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    Start studying for 2013

    Hi, You can follow any order as per your liking there is no suggested order given by the frm study guide. I mean you can start with your favorite topic or the topic that you consider as important from exam perspective. Than go on to the topics serially in terms of importance or favoritism. It...
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    FRM Level 2 , Nov 2012 : Post what you remember here

    Passing score range would be in the range according tome : Assuming normal distribution of marks we can safely assume mean to be 50% that majority of the test takers get marks are 50% of the total. now assuming sd to be 10% at 95% CL, 50%+1.65*10%=50%+16.5%=66.5% so that might be the passing...
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    Valuation for high growth companies

    Hi there, If you are valuing the company than while calculating Terminal value you can use the raw multiple(P/E,P/B,FCF/EBITDA etc.) an industry multiple in which the company is in. For that you need to just forecast the industry average multiple and company's earning in terminal year.I mean if...
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    Valuation for high growth companies

    Revenues can be determined of a real estate based on several factors as what would be the future income levels, population demographics, and the urban trend and overall economy. Firstly lets ask the question what determines real estate development, that is what drives the real estate demand...
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    Economics: Auction bids for treasury bills

    As far as I know, Price auction of T bills takes place on online trading platform. A order comes for buying T-bills for a certain price and a set of orders are taken and usually the highest bid qualifies as price. As happens in usual auctions a set of bidders put forward their prices before the...
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    Start studying for 2013

    Hi, Yes you can start from my side as majority of the portion does not changes within one AIM to consecutive one from my experience, last year when i sited for the exam i did not see that much changes in the AIM statements they were almost identical.Yes Quant will almost be the same as most of...
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    Allowance for loan losses: is it lower the better or the opposite?

    @sleepybird EL= ExpectedExposure@Defalut*PD*LGD; Now for Expected loss to decrease and Exposure to increase that means PD*LGD should decrease so PD is decreasing that means more good quality and high rating customers are granted loan. LGD is increasing that means that due to good collateral(the...
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    Delta Normal VaR - simultaneous long and short

    @shady007; the above positions can be call/put options with different maturities on the same underlying asset , hence different volatility :):) . thanks
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    Delta Normal VaR - simultaneous long and short

    correlation=-1 as they are long and short positions on the same asset so they move in opposite directions sd(portfolio)=sqrt(.15^2+.25^2-2*.15*.25*1) sd(portfolio)=sqrt(.0225+.0625-.075) sd(portfolio)=sqrt(.01)=.1=10% is the volatility of portfolio which is less than the individual positions due...
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