Articles by Celeste Tamers
Risk.net’s top 10 investment risks for 2025
Fresh concerns this year include a trade war, a stock market crash and growing social discord
Critics warn against softening risk transfer rules for insurers
Proposal to cut capital for unfunded protection of loan books would create systemic risk, investors say
BofA sets its sights on US synthetic risk transfer market
New trading initiative has already notched at least three transactions
Why the Basel III rollback won’t halt US risk transfer deals
New structures could free up reserves as well as regulatory capital, says lawyer who helped launch market
Are investors betting on Kamala or Donald? Neither
Hedge funds and others shun election-based trades and rely on existing hedges to guard against surprise market moves
Investors back away from vanilla dispersion ahead of US vote
Broader trades and new versions of go-to strategy are proving more popular, say bank QIS teams
Ninety One sees opportunity in overlooked private credit niche
Sponsorless deals offer as much as twice the return, says investment manager
Trillion-dollar basis trade will keep growing – asset managers
Treasury issuance, credit trades and repo stigma drive rise in futures use
People: Masters moves into FNZ, Two Sigma founders step back, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Bonds will cushion equities in election volatility – Lombard Odier
August showed old risk models can be trusted ahead of voting day, says investment manager’s macro chief
ETF dispersion set for election revival
Sector-based approach to popular vol trades boasts cheaper entry cost than classic version, proponents argue
Brooklyn’s robot analyst cuts costs by four-fifths
In tests, direct indexer’s model picks portfolios for review with near-perfect accuracy
Sliced and sliced again: investors’ latest trick for risk transfer
‘Retranched’ synthetic securitisations offer higher yields, but questions remain over legality of structures
Could the SEC revive the private fund adviser rule?
Industry experts deem a second life for the reviled rule unlikely
Capital rules explain leverage craving in US bank risk transfers
Tougher requirements have led to conservative structuring and lower coupons
Hedge fund’s bots hunt for ‘non-linear’ trade signals
Boutique investment firm Goose Hollow uses LLMs to scrape thousands of news sources, searching for links that others miss
Fed green lights more capital relief trades
Five US banks authorised to issue repeat credit-linked notes backed by financial guarantees
Napier Park to increase investment in bank risk transfers
Hedge fund sees secular trend in lenders offloading credit risk, and plans to be part of it
For a growing number of banks, synthetics are the real deal
More lenders want to use SRTs to offload credit risk, but old hands say they have a long road ahead
People: Isda taps four new directors, O’Callaghan joins CA, Berlinski quits Goldman, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Hedge funds must race the clock to check their dealer-rule status
Working out whether a firm is caught by SEC registration requirement could take months
Risk transfer and the shift from camaraderie to competition
The risk transfer market could be moving into a more competitive, more transactional and, some fear, riskier cycle
The race to build hyper-personalised investing
Direct indexing is taking off, but how far can it scale?
EU reporting regime a ‘hurdle’ for risk transfer deals, say investors
Onerous disclosure templates could deter US banks from marketing synthetic securitisations to European buyers