Which one of the following four statements about hedging is INCORRECT?

Which of the following statements explain how securitization makes the retail assets highly liquid and the
balance sheet easier to manage?
I. By securitizing assets any lack of capital can be accommodated by selling the securitized bonds.
II. Any need to diversify credit risk can be achieved by selling bank's own securitized bonds and buying other
bonds that increase diversification.
III. Securitization could be used to promote hedging by using limited market instruments.

To manage its credit portfolio, Beta Bank can directly sell the following portfolio elements:
I. Bonds
II. Marketable loans
III. Credit card loans

John owns a bond portfolio worth $2 million with duration of 10. What positions must he take to hedge this
portfolio against a small parallel shifts in the term structure.

Which of the following statements about a bank's behavior regarding Risk Adjusted Return on Capital
(RAROC) is correct?
I. A bank should always seek to maximize their overall RAROC.
II. A bank should consider investing in a business even with negative RAROC if it increases the RAROC of
the bank as a whole.
III. A bank should minimize its overall RAROC by controlling the absolute and relative amount of risk of its
businesses.
IV. A bank should maximize its RAROC by always investing in a new business that maximizes the RAROC
for that business unit.