Interest rate risk
Pension funds urge US Congress to act fast on debt-ceiling deal
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Source: Credit
Pension funds and investment firms highlight inflation, interest rate and currency risks of US default in open letters to President Obama
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
Emanuel Eftimiu speaks to Kelvin Wilson, associate director, Grant Thornton about defined pension fund liabilities and what they mean for private equity buyers.
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Source: Structured Products
Asian investors have broadened their choice of the currencies they use for their structured products underlyings.
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Vigilance needed to prevent curse of inflation in Asia
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Source: Asia Risk
The unprecedented injection of trillions of dollars of easy money into the global financial system during the past couple of years is increasingly viewed as posing a serious risk that inflationary pressure will build in many economies around the world...
Japan disaster has broad impact across asset classes
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Source: Asia Risk
The ability to take risk off the table quickly and effectively has become a key focus in Asian risk management, as the reaction by investors to the tragedy in Japan shows. Despite profound mark to market losses in major asset classes and trend reversals...
Yen interbank funding market calm as government bond yields retrace
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Source: Asia Risk
The reduced scale of hedge fund carry trade activities compared with previous crises such as the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 has reined in potential increases in the yen libor rate and short-end JGBs.
Simplistic nature of Solvency II standard formula gives regulatory arbitrage...
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
As the industry calls for less complexity in Solvency II, some are arguing the directive is already dangerously simplistic
Regulator Q&A - Isvap talks sovereign default and Solvency II
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
Italy has the ignominious achievement of being dubbed one of the ‘Piigs’, and therefore a potential sovereign worry. But Flavia Mazzarella, vice-director general of Isvap, the Italian insurance regulator, says the industry is not affected by this...
Valuation of with-profit insurance policies with interest rate guarantees...
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
Classical with-profit life insurance products are traditionally backed by a buy-and-hold bond investment strategy. Using book-value accounting for such products tends to lead to a design of the guarantee rate based on an average of long-term interest...
A focus on LDI counterproductive for pension funds – M&G Investments
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
Returns as important as risk management, say M&G Investments
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