Questions and Answers of Financial Institutions Management

What is technology risk? What is the difference between economies of scale and economies of scope? How can these economies create benefits for an FI? How can these economies prove harmful to an FI?
Suppose you purchase a 10-year, AAA-rated Swiss bond for par that is paying an annual coupon of 6 percent. The bond has a face value of 1,000 Swiss francs (SF). The spot rate at the time of purchase
Six months ago, Qualitybank issued a $100 million, one-year maturity CD denominated in euros. On the same date, $60 million was invested in a €-denominated loan and $40 million was invested in a
Assume that a bank has assets located in London that are worth £150 million on which it earns an average of 8 percent per year. The bank has £100 million in liabilities on which it pays an average
If the British pound is expected to appreciate in the near future, would a U.S.-based FI in London prefer to be net long or net short in its asset positions? Discuss.
Consider the simple FI balance sheet below (in millions of dollars). Suppose that depositors unexpectedly withdraw $50 million in deposits and the FI receives no new deposits to replace them.
A money market mutual fund bought $1 million of two-year Treasury notes six months ago. During this time, the value of the securities has increased, but for tax reasons the mutual fund wants to
Consider an FI that issues $100 million of liabilities with one year to maturity to finance the purchase of $100 million of assets with a two year maturity. Suppose that the cost of funds
A property–casualty insurer brings in $6.25 million in premiums on its homeowners multiple line of insurance. The line’s losses amount to $4,343,750, expenses are $1,593,750, and dividends are
An insurance company’s projected loss ratio is 77.5 percent and its expense ratio is 23.9 percent. The company estimates that dividends to policyholders will be 5 percent. What must be the minimum
Insurance companies will charge a higher premium for which of the insurance lines listed below? Why?a. Low-severity, high-frequency lines versus high-severity, low-frequency lines.b. Long-tail versus
Contrast the balance sheet of a property-casualty insurance company (Table 6-5) with the balance sheet of a commercial bank (Table 2-5). Explain the balance sheet differences in terms of the
Contrast the balance sheet of a life insurance company (Table 6-3) with the balance sheet of a commercial bank (Table 2-5) and that of a savings institution (Table 2-9). Explain the balance sheet
a. What is the amount of the annuity purchase required if you wish to receive a fixed payment of $200,000 for 20 years? Assume that the annuity will earn 10 percent per year.b. Calculate the annual
Explain how life insurance and annuity products can be used to create a steady stream of cash disbursements and payments to avoid paying or receiving a single-lump sum cash amount.
Explain how annuity activities represent the reverse of life insurance activities.
What is a 12b-1 fee? Suppose you have a choice between a load fund with no annual 12b-1 fee and a no-load fund with an annual 12b-1 fee of 25 basis points. How would the length of your expected
Open-end fund A owns 165 shares of AT&T valued at $35 each and 30 shares of Toro valued at $75 each. Closed-end fund B owns 75 shares of AT&T and 72 shares of Toro. Each fund has 1,000
A mutual fund owns 300 shares of General Electric, currently trading at $30, and 400 shares of Microsoft, Inc., currently trading at $54. The fund has 1,000 shares outstanding.a. What is the net
Suppose today a mutual fund contains 2,000 shares of J.P. Morgan Chase, currently trading at $64.75, 1,000 shares of Wal-mart, currently trading at $63.10, and 2,500 shares of Pfizer, currently
Why did the proportion of equities in long-term funds increase from 38.3 percent in 1990 to more than 70 percent by 2000 and then decrease to 56.4 percent in 2015? How might an investor’s
Using the data in Table 5-2, discuss the growth and ownership holdings over the last 35 years of long-term funds versus short-term funds.
How did the National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996 (NSMIA) change the regulatory structure of the securities industry?
Based on the data in Table 4-7, what were the largest assets and liabilities of securities firms in 2015? Are these asset and liability categories related? Exactly how does a repurchase agreement
An investor notices that an ounce of gold is priced at $1,018 in London and $1,025 in New York. a. What action could the investor take to try to profit from the price
One of the major activity areas of securities firms is trading.What is the difference between position trading and program trading?
What is the difference between an IPO and a secondary issue?
What have been the major changes in the accounts receivable balances of finance companies over the 38-year period from 1977 to 2015?
How does the asset structure of credit unions compare with the asset structure of commercial banks and savings institutions? Refer to Tables 2-5, 2-9, and 2-12 to formulate your answer.
What happened in 1979 to cause the failure of many savings institutions during the early 1980s? What was the effect of this change on the financial statements of savings associations?
Use the data in Table 2-6 to answer the following questions.a. What was the average annual growth rate in OBS total commitments over the period from 1992-2015?b. Which categories of contingencies
How does the liability maturity structure of a bank’s balance sheet compare with the maturity structure of the asset portfolio? What risks are created or intensified by these differences?
What are five risks common to all financial institutions?

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