1: What is the traditional relationship between bond and stock prices?

2: How effective do you think quantitative tools have been at measuring and assessing risk over the past several years? Why?

3: Discuss the challenges of VaR approaches in valuing risk.

3: How does portfolio risk assessment differ from a single asset's risk assessment?

4: How do managers typically load balance a portfolio?

5: How is credit risk changing with the implosion of the financial credit markets in 2008 and 2009?

6: Identify as least 10 important risks that need to be considered in an overall risk assessment.

7: Has the COSO ERM Framework been successful?