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Riding out the storm
Hedge funds, many of which are heavily invested in equities, have proliferated quickly in South Africa over the past few years. How has the recent spate of domestic stock market volatility affected the...
Led by the country's bank originators, South Africa's securitisation market has seen explosive growth over the past few years. But trepidation offshore has cast new uncertainty over its future direction...
South Africa has done a great job of avoiding the credit and liquidity problems that have blighted global markets over the past eight months. This has been possible due to the relatively vanilla character...
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Modelling South African swap spreads
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 in the 10-year spread is expected over the...
More than a retail tale
The City of Johannesburg is earning a reputation as a well-informed municipality when it comes to risk management. Ryan Davidson talks to its head of treasury, William Mathamela, about funding and its thinking on hedging
An unusual existence
Although still very much a niche market, trading volumes in dividend futures contracts have surged. Risk takes a look at how, despite repeated challenges to the contracts' existence, this unlikely success story has come about. By John Ferry
Riding the M&A wave
South African companies have become popular targets for private equity investors. The wave of activity has generated new business for dealers as vanilla and more exotic forms of hedging begin to catch on. Mark Pengelly reports
Credit's worthy start
Top-tier banks in South Africa are making some headway in their quest to move towards a more formal, integrated approach to credit portfolio management. While the credit derivatives market certainly needs further development, securitisation is establishing...
Introduction
The astonishing growth of the global credit derivatives market, which totalled $34.5 trillion in notional outstanding in 2006, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, has long fuelled hope among locals that South Africa might...
South Africa - Giving clarity
South Africa's hedge fund industry has developed at a breakneck pace, with assets under management more than doubling last year. While supervisors around the globe ponder how to regulate the hedge fund sector, South Africa's growth has been underpinned...
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