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Risk management overlays all financial institution functions. Banks cannot generate the returns required by shareholders without accepting risk. The two key challenges for the management of banks and other financial service companies are how to manage and price that risk.
Buying the equivalent of an insurance policy can reduce many of these risks, but insurance bears a cost. Management has to balance the costs of those implicit or explicit insurance premiums against the level of protection afforded. A bank analyst has to understand enough about the techniques and tools available to make a judgment on whether management at a particular bank has the skills and infrastructure to make these decisions effectively. The starting point is to establish the organizational infrastructure for risk management.

Replacement risk arises when a bank has an obligation to one party where the discharge of that obligation is conditional on a third party meeting its obligation to the bank. For example, the bank may have sold stock to the first party. It intends to deliver this stock using stock it has bought but not yet received from a third party. If the third party fails to deliver its stock the bank will have to buy it from the market at a potentially higher price.
The most common primary cause of bank failures is insolvency arising from credit losses. This is followed by failure to manage interest rate risk and foreign exchange risk. Failures arising from fraud, market risk and liquidity risk tend to hit the headlines but are far less common than those due to these first two factors.

Investment companies sell shares to the public and invest the proceeds in a diversified portfolio of securities. Each share they sell represents a proportionate interest in a portfolio of securities. The securities purchased could be restricted to specific types of assets such as common stock, government bonds, corporate bonds, or money market instruments. The investment strategies followed by investment companies range from high-risk active portfolio strategies to low-risk passive portfolio strategies.
There are two types of managed investment companies: open-end funds and closed-end funds. An open-end fund, more popularly referred to as a mutual fund, continually stands ready to sell new shares to the public and to redeem its outstanding shares on demand at a price equal to an appropriate share of the value of its portfolio, which is computed daily at the close of the market. A mutual fund’s share price is based on its net asset value (NAV) per share, which is found by subtracting from the market value of the portfolio the mutual fund’s liabilities and then dividing by the number of mutual fund shares outstanding.
In contrast to mutual funds, closed-end funds sell shares like any other corporation and usually do not redeem their shares. Shares of closed-end funds sell on either an organized exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange, or in the over-the-counter market. The price of a share in a closed-end fund is determined by supply and demand, so the price can fall below or rise above the net asset value per share.