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The recent turmoil in the financial markets caused the value of investors' portfolios to plunge, sparking a flurry of margin calls by prime brokers. In response, some buy-side firms have started to acquire...
Even though domestic swap spreads are stretched several standard deviations above historical three- and seven-year means, these spreads exhibit a statistically viable upward trend. Nevertheless, some moderation...
Dopo aver sviluppato una serie di derivati su panieri azionari, Reuters esamina le tendenze e le sfide presenti sul mercato retail italiano per i prodotti strutturati
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How banks needs to consider their IT infrastructure
Banks are increasingly using their IT infrastructure to increase their competitive advantage. Learn how this can work in practice.
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How just beastly, that beast of regulatory burden!
If you hoped the regulatory burden on hedge funds would ease after Phil Goldstein's taking on and winning in Bulldog's court, against the US Securities & Exchange Commission's plans to force most of the world's hedge funds to register with it, you hoped...
Which way is up? - measuring performance
In the second in a series on hedge fund performance measurements, Edhec's Walter Gehin sets out to discover the ins and outs of putting a number and meaning to the all-important direction of that red track-record line
Commodities suffer at the double-edged "Sword of Liquidity"
When markets got all slippery many multi-asset managers saw commodities as easy game for de-leveraging and raising redemption cash in a hurry, leading some allocators to seek a discretionary touch to their commodity portfolios, writes David Walker
Trio of vendors spearheading Basel credit risk work
SAS, SunGard, Algo lauded by Chartis
The technology test
Talk of using straight-through processing with structured products usually elicits gasps of horror and scepticism in equal measure. But although squeezing such a complex product into a process management system has so far proved elusive, progress is being...
Risk information: science or art?
Industry experts gathered for a roundtable discussion in New York at the end of May to debate the ways firms acquire and use information about risks. Moderated by Ellen Davis
Ahead of the pack
Kookmin Bank, Korea's biggest bank, has developed a sophisticated risk management system, increased its derivatives coverage and will soon launch a mortgage-backed securitisation programme. Joe Marsh talks to chief risk officer Don MacKenzie
Using market and credit risk analytics to strengthen performance
How are banks improving their risk management techniques?
This handy guide reviews the various steps banks are taking to improve their risk management techniques, looking at the benefits and pitfalls of each one.
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