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Banco Santander
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Woolwich Plan Managers
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BNL Vita
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La Poste
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Broadening horizons
When the investment horizon is of the order of a few years, such as in the context of personalfinancial planning, it becomes necessary to calculate and stress-test the exact distribution ofthe market at the given horizon, as the common first-order…
Excess yields in bond hedging
Litterman & Scheinkman (1991) showed that the term structure of interest rates is reliablymodelled by an affine three-factor model using principal component analysis. Such a modelis inconsistent with no arbitrage. Here, Haim Reisman and Gady Zohar derive…
Citigroup
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BNP Paribas
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Mediolanum Vita
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Banco Sabadell
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Detecting market abuse
Financial regulators need a way to detect market abuse in real time. Marcello Minenna has developed such a procedure that can detect, for each quoted stock and on a daily basis, the presence of market abuse phenomena by means of a set of tripwires that…
Maximum likelihood estimate of default correlations
Estimating asset correlations is difficult in practice since there is little available data andmany parameters have to be found. Paul Demey, Jean-Frédéric Jouanin, Céline Roget andThierry Roncalli present a tractable version of the multi-factor Merton…
Mixed default modelling
Structural and reduced-form models are two well-established approaches to modelling afirm’s default risk. Here, Li Chen, Damir Filipovic/ and Vincent Poor develop a new default riskmodelling strategy based on combining these two frameworks in order to…
Incorporating policyholder expectations into ALM
European life insurers have recently improved their asset/liability management (ALM) skills.However, those efforts have been limited to the matching of guaranteed policyholder benefits.While bringing considerable insight, they also leave management with…
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Premier Fund Managers
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Caisse d’Epargne
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Scottish Widows
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