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Insurers increase equity exposure despite risk management challenges...
This year is being mooted as the year of the 'great rotation' by investors out of bonds and into equities. For their part, insurers are modestly increasing their equity exposure in pursuit of more attractive...
Trading book capital measures were at heart of efforts to free up traders and reduce capital
Regulators planning follow-up to trading book study that revealed huge variation in modelled RWA numbers
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The Wheatley Review of Libor succeeds in shoring up the interest rate benchmark without destabilising the derivatives market, traders say. But there are some hidden complexities. By Laurie Carver
The false promise of expected shortfall
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JP Morgan and the CRM: How Basel 2.5 beached the London Whale
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Cutting Edge introduction: Tales of tails
It is a cliché that returns are fat-tailed, but that doesn’t make the distributions any easier to work with. However, drawing on the father of their application in finance – and some thermodynamics – may make it a bit easier. Laurie Carver introduces...
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