Answer: b. selling VIX calls
Explanation:
The client could make some money selling VIX calls. Call options give the holder the right to buy an underlying asset at a set price in future and they will do so if the market price of the underlying asset increases past the call price of the asset (exercise price).
If the client expects that market conditions will be stable then an increase in stock price is not expected. They can sell calls and make money from the premium they will charge for the calls knowing that they would not have to sell any stock to the holder as the value will not appreciate.
Answer:
C) Overstating or understating allowances and reversing amounts in the future to smooth out net income over time.
Explanation:
Cookie jar reserve is defined as an accounting practice by businesses where the profit a company makes from successful years are reserved to cover up for years with losses. It balances losses from unsuccessful years.
Investors are led to believe that losses in bad years are less than they actually are.
For example not allocating an expense to a particular accounting year but instead allocating it to a year when the company made profits.
In essence it is overstating or understating allowances and reversing amounts in the future to smooth out net income over time.
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Answer: D. No insurance protection is offered on customer municipal accounts maintained at bank broker-dealers
Explanation:
Broker-Dealer are required to register their customers for insurance under the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC).
Broker-Dealers who however handle only tax-exempt securities such as municipal bonds are not required to be registered under the SIPC.
As this bank handles only municipal securities, they is not required to be registered under the SIPC which means that no insurance protection is offered on customer municipal accounts maintained by them.
