📅 Question of the Day
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FINANCE TUTORING
Advisory and Training
📅 06/05/2025
QUESTION OF THE DAY – STRESS TESTING & FIXED INCOME RISK
Why did a sudden spike in long-term UK gilt yields trigger a liquidity crisis for pension funds in 2022, despite the use of Liability-Driven Investment (LDI) strategies?
a) Rising yields directly increased the present value of liabilities, creating funding shortfalls and redemption pressure.
b) Leverage within LDI strategies amplified margin calls as gilt prices dropped, forcing rapid asset sales to raise collateral.
c) Pension funds were short gilts and thus suffered mark-to-market losses on their short positions.
d) The Bank of England froze repo operations, preventing funds from refinancing their LDI positions in time.
💬 Your answer? Share your thoughts in the comments!
📘 Bonus: How could dynamic margin forecasting and better stress test calibration reduce systemic risk in the LDI ecosystem?
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FINANCE TUTORING
Advisory and Training
📅 05/05/2025
QUESTION OF THE DAY – ASSET MANAGEMENT & LEARNING THEORY
What if portfolio optimization wasn’t about finding the one best model — but learning from multiple plausible hypotheses at once?
a) A multi-hypothesis framework simulates multiple market scenarios, then selects the one with the highest expected Sharpe ratio.
b) Structurally combining predictive hypotheses allows risk control to be embedded before any allocation decision is made.
c) This method increases the number of parameters and therefore systematically raises the risk of overfitting.
d) Ensemble-based approaches are not suitable for volatile asset classes such as crypto or commodities.
💬 Your answer? Share your thoughts in the comments!
📘 Bonus: How does the diversity–accuracy trade-off influence portfolio robustness in out-of-sample testing?
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FINANCE TUTORING
Consulting and Training
📅 25/04/2025
QUESTION OF THE DAY – COMPENSATION HOUSE VS CCP
What is the main difference between a compensation house and a central counterparty (CCP)?
a) The compensation house calculates a net balance from gross transactions, while the CCP replaces the counterparty in the transactions.
b) The compensation house offers a central counterparty for all financial transactions, while the CCP is limited to derivative products.
c) Compensation houses play no risk management role, unlike CCPs, which take on this function.
d) The compensation house is limited to payment flows, while the CCP also handles derivative compensation and default management.
💬 Your answer? Justify it in the comments!
📈 Bonus: What is the specific role of CCPs in risk management, particularly during the 2008 financial crisis?
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FINANCE TUTORING
Consulting and Training
📅 18/04/2025
QUESTION OF THE DAY:
How does securitization work?
a) The proceeds from the issued securities are used to repay the initial investors.
b) The proceeds from the issued securities are used to finance the acquisition of the assets to be securitized.
c) The securitized assets automatically become listed instruments.
d) The issued securities grant a direct right to the cash flows of the securitization vehicle.
Answer tomorrow with an explanation!
FINANCE TUTORING
Consulting and Training
📅 17/04/2025
QUESTION OF THE DAY – RISK AND MARTINGALES
Why is the classic martingale a typical example of poor risk management?
a) Because it reduces the volatility of gains
b) Because it maximizes the expected gain
c) Because it relies on exponential growth of bets
d) Because it only works on efficient markets
💬 Your answer? Justify it in the comments!
📈 Bonus: What connection do you make between this strategy and the concept of "tail risk"?
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Finance Tutoring (mercredi, 07 mai 2025 13:13)
Answer to yesterday’s Question of the Day
Answer: b) Leverage within LDI strategies amplified margin calls as gilt prices dropped, forcing rapid asset sales to raise collateral.
Explanation
The 2022 UK pension fund crisis was not a traditional solvency issue — it was a liquidity crunch triggered by the structure of LDI (Liability-Driven Investment) strategies. These strategies use interest rate derivatives (mostly gilt repos and swaps) to hedge long-duration liabilities.
However, many were highly leveraged, meaning a small move in rates triggered massive collateral demands.
When long-term gilt yields surged rapidly in late September 2022 (in part due to unfunded fiscal announcements), the value of gilts used as collateral dropped sharply. Margin calls were issued and had to be met within hours. Funds were forced to conduct fire sales of assets — including corporate bonds, equities, and gilts — further driving prices down.
It wasn’t the hedge that failed, but the funding of the hedge.
Bonus – Preventing Future Stress
To reduce systemic risk in LDI structures, institutions should consider:
Dynamic margin forecasting: anticipate cash needs under stress using volatility and scenario analysis, not just base-case VaR
Better stress test calibration: include convexity, illiquidity, and rate-of-change effects
Pre-agreed liquidity buffers: hold liquid assets explicitly dedicated to margin calls
Central bank coordination: the BoE's temporary support was key — should future backstops be formalized?
What else?
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