This document discusses risk management strategies for financial institutions. It examines how they manage credit risk from loans and interest rate risk from changes in market rates. For credit risk, the key strategies are screening borrowers, monitoring loans, using collateral, and credit rationing. For interest rate risk, tools like income gap analysis and duration gap analysis are used to measure risks and immunize the balance sheet from changes in rates. The chapter provides examples of calculating duration and gaps to illustrate how financial managers can assess and address risks.
Income Gap Analysis: measures the sensitivity of a bank’s current year net income to changes in interest rate.
Requires determining which assets and liabilities will have their interest rate change as market interest rates change. Let’s see how that works for First National Bank.