Portfolio Risk Analyst Interview Questions

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Calculate convexity on various curve trades Calculate volatility on 10yr it’s Given various products, how would you trade them in various market conditions including hedges End to end of mbs (creation to impact from interest rates) What products have positive convexity Calculate duration Trading strategies: bond futures basis - how do you identify the ctd bond (and: highest implied repo rate) and explain the connection to the funding mkts What are the risks of (some) index that I’d never heard of so I didn’t even know what the products that trade in it were so I didn’t know how to evaluate risk Some more index risk related questions Do you know how to code? This is all I remember
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Portfolio Risk Manager

Interviewed at PIMCO

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Apr 11, 2021

Calculate convexity on various curve trades Calculate volatility on 10yr it’s Given various products, how would you trade them in various market conditions including hedges End to end of mbs (creation to impact from interest rates) What products have positive convexity Calculate duration Trading strategies: bond futures basis - how do you identify the ctd bond (and: highest implied repo rate) and explain the connection to the funding mkts What are the risks of (some) index that I’d never heard of so I didn’t even know what the products that trade in it were so I didn’t know how to evaluate risk Some more index risk related questions Do you know how to code? This is all I remember

How is the current financial climate? Explain to me what's going on with china at the moment? How would you describe a bond? How do you keep up to date with the financial markets? Describe to me a time you where innovative? Why Blackrock? Why this role? What is your weakness? Describe to me a time you where challenged? What interests you about BlackRock?
Mar 1, 2016

How is the current financial climate? Explain to me what's going on with china at the moment? How would you describe a bond? How do you keep up to date with the financial markets? Describe to me a time you where innovative? Why Blackrock? Why this role? What is your weakness? Describe to me a time you where challenged? What interests you about BlackRock?

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