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    Exam Feedback October 2020 Part 2 Exam Feedback

    Passed yay! 111211. Thank you David, Nicole and team. I used BionicTurtle exclusively for both Part 1 and 2 both professional package and the materials were really useful. The excel sheets really helped with those quantitative concepts. Furthermore, when the exam were postponed, BT extended my...
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    Borio, Covered Interest Rate Parity Lost: Understanding the Cross-Currency Basis

    Hi, dont mind i wanna ask something else from this reading as well How do central banks cause credit spread to tighten? Do they buy corp bonds, (making their yields go down due to increased prices), making the spread from the gov bonds narrower?
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    Cruz, Chapter 2: OpRisk Data and Governance

    Hi everyone, just curious about this part. I thought that a higher volatility increases the price of the option? meaning if you overestimate the vol of an option, you would have overpriced options, rather than underpriced?
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    New May 2020 Exam Date Released - COVID-19 discussion

    Hi BT team, Do keep us informed about the decision for subscription, bought the Profession FRM 2 on July 2019 with plans to take it on May 2020. A bit of roadbloack to my studying when the syllabus changed quite a bit. And then a bigger roadblock when the exam got deferred to Oct. Crazy, how...
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    Risk Budgeting Across active managers

    Hi everyone, @David Harper CFA FRM , Is there a spreadsheet for this? doesnt seem to be included in the course material (only for the example for risk budgeting across asset class) Having a hard time deriving the numbers myself, also cause i am not sure which numbers are given as an...
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    Errors Found in Study Materials P1.T2. Quantitative Methods (OLD thread)

    Hi friends, is it just me or should that last plus sign be an equal sign instead. so its E(et^2 | omegat-1) = E(et^2). page 31 diebold chap 8 notes
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    Conditional Expectation of MA(1)

    E[(Yt- theta*(e_t-1))^2| omega_t-1] = E[(e_t)^2 | omega_t-1] = sigma^2 hmm, i need a little bit more clarification from here on, does anyone mind, showing the full steps?
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    Determining the theoretical Future Price

    Out of curiosity, is the quoted clean price of 115 and the CF of 1.6 assumed? or is there a way we can calculate this on our own.
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    Errors Found in Study Materials P1.T3. Financial Markets & Products (OLD thread)

    '' In the second scenario, the producer is exposes to a future spot price decrease, such that the appropriate hedge is a short position in coffee futures contracts. In this case as the future sale price is not predetermined, the underlying exposure is effectively a short position such that the...
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