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    Thanks so much @David Harper CFA FRM and @Nicole Manley for your help. I thought this part 2...

    Thanks so much @David Harper CFA FRM and @Nicole Manley for your help. I thought this part 2 exam was a write off.. so pleased i was wrong!
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    Thanks very much, please can I take the amazon gift card?
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    FRM part 2 key Formulae

    I appreciate it's deep into the holiday season, but if either of you ( David or Nicole) have a chance to come back to me on this I would be very appreciative. I found your input on the part 1 very useful indeed and am hopeful that it will be the same for part 2.. Thanks. Tom.
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    FRM part 2 key Formulae

    @David Harper, @Nicole Manley could you help on this please? Thanks. Tom.
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    FRM part 2 key Formulae

    Thanks for this response ShaktiRathore, I'm not entirely sure what the response is saying though, are you seconding the request for a spreadsheet or agreeing with the idea that it would be useful? My intended purpose of this thread is to hopefully to have someone (potentially David Harper...
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    CDS Compression - why?

    Hi, thanks for this ShaktiRathore. It still doesn't really clear up for me how the exposure actually has changed at all. Initially there was a long of 100 and a short of 50, so to my mind the exposure would be viewed as 100-50 = 50 without doing anything at all (assuming they were against the...
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    CDS Compression - why?

    Hi, I am reading through the material and in all honesty I just don't understand how this is any different to simply netting off positions. Surely the position itself is already netted within the risk system, so simply displaying a net impact won't change anything at all and therefore the...
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    FRM part 2 key Formulae

    Hi David / team, Apologies if this question has come up before I did search to see if anyone had posted anything on this.. I have passed the FRM part 1 and have got a fairly comprehensive list of the formulae which recur from schweser's quicksheet, then supplementary information added by...
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    Jensen Alpha question across multiple years of returns

    Hi David / team, I sat the exam in May and there was a question on calculating the Jensen's alpha across multiple years of returns. I forget the entire question and have trawled through the forums to find links to it to no avail really. I was wondering if you could remember such a question...
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    Calculation of the N(d1) and N(d2)

    Hi, I am looking through the very first set of study notes ( allen) for the valuation and risk models. As an exercise for myself I was trying to replicate the figures for the black scholes calculation on page 30, but was wondering firstly what value you are translating in the Z table to convert...
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