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Banque Langenberg holds $400 million of interest-sensitive assets and $325 million of interest-sensitive liabilities. | ||||||
Total assets are $500 million. | ||||||
Interest-sensitive assets (millions) $ 400 | ||||||
Interest-sensitive liabilities (millions) $ 325 | ||||||
Total assets $ 500 | ||||||
$ interest sensitive gap $75 | ||||||
Relative interest sensitive gap 15% | ||||||
Interest sensitive ratio 1.23 | ||||||
What is the initial $ interest-sensitive gap? | ||||||
What is the initial relative interest-sensitive gap? | ||||||
Now change the assumptions. Boosting interest-sensitive assets to $600 million and interest-sensitive | ||||||
liabilities to $400 million. Total assets are now $700 million. | ||||||
What is the new $ interest-sensitive gap? | ||||||
What is the new relative interest-sensitive gap? |
What is the initial $ interest-sensitive gap?
The value of initial $ interest-sensitive gap is determined as below:
Initial $ Interest-Sensitive Gap = Interest-Sensitive Assets - Interest-Sensitive Liabilities
Here, Interest-Sensitive Assets = $400 million and Interest-Sensitive Liabilities = $325 million
Using these values in the above formula, we get,
Initial $ Interest-Sensitive Gap = 400 - 325 = $75 million
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What is the initial relative interest-sensitive gap?
The value of initial relative interest-sensitive gap is arrived as follows:
Initial Relative Interest-Sensitive Gap = Initial $ Interest-Sensitive Gap/Total Assets = 75/500 = 15%
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What is the new $ interest-sensitive gap?
The value of new $ interest-sensitive gap is calculated as below:
New $ Interest-Sensitive Gap = New Interest-Sensitive Assets - New Interest-Sensitive Liabilities
Here, New Interest-Sensitive Assets = $600 million and New Interest-Sensitive Liabilities = $400 million
Using these values in the above formula, we get,
New $ Interest-Sensitive Gap = 600 - 400 = $200 million
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What is the new relative interest-sensitive gap?
The value of new relative interest-sensitive gap is arrived as follows:
New Relative Interest-Sensitive Gap = New $ Interest-Sensitive Gap/New Total Assets = 200/700 = 28.57%