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Financial Risk Management Study Guide 2026

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Financial Risk Management exam key facts

  • Candidates are allotted four hours to complete each FRM Exam part. Source
  • Both FRM Exams are scored on a pass/fail basis. Source
  • FRM candidates must pass Part II by December 31 of the 4th year of passing Part I. Source
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📋 Financial Risk Management Exam Format at a Glance

100
Questions
240 min
Time Limit
50%
Passing Score
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📚 Financial Risk Management Topics to Study (40)

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✍️ Sample Financial Risk Management Questions & Answers

1. A portfolio manager wants to reduce interest rate duration without selling bonds. Which derivative strategy is most appropriate?
✓ Enter a payer interest rate swap (pay fixed, receive floating)

In a payer swap, the manager pays fixed and receives floating, which offsets the fixed-rate exposure of the bond portfolio and reduces duration.

2. What is 'scenario analysis' used for in operational risk capital modeling?
✓ Using expert judgment to estimate the frequency and severity of rare but plausible extreme operational loss events not in the historical data

Scenario analysis supplements internal loss data by capturing low-frequency/high-severity events (e.g., a major cyber attack or rogue trader) that haven't occurred recently but could happen.

3. A portfolio has a correlation of 1.0 between all assets. What is the diversification benefit?
✓ No diversification benefit

When correlations are perfectly positive (1.0), all assets move identically, so combining them provides no reduction in risk relative to holding any single asset.

4. After entering a pay-fixed, receive-floating swap on top of floating-rate debt, a company's combined debt is effectively:
✓ Fixed rate

The floating payment received from the swap offsets the floating payment owed on the debt, leaving only the fixed payment due on the swap — converting the exposure to fixed rate.

5. A portfolio manager uses a duration of 5 years for a bond portfolio. If interest rates rise by 100 basis points, the approximate price change is:
✓ -5%

The approximate price change equals negative duration times the change in yield, so −5 × 0.01 = −5%.

6. Under the Historical Simulation method for VaR, how are future portfolio losses estimated?
✓ By applying today's portfolio weights to historically observed risk factor changes

Historical Simulation re-prices today's portfolio using actual historical changes in risk factors (e.g., rates, FX, prices), generating an empirical distribution of P&L.

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