Book contributions by Risk Staff
Portfolio Construction and Management
Edited by Brice Benaben and Julien Jarmoszko
Articles by Risk Staff
Eastern European stocks excel in illiquid markets
The boom and bust reputation of emerging markets is slowly disappearing
Gartmore sets its business plan in action with credit hedge fund
New credit fund has greater capacity than previous funds
Basel may advise banks on outsourcing
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision may investigate the risks associated with outsourcing trading systems to third parties, a senior Bank for International Settlement (BIS) official told FX Week.
JP Morgan, Citigroup pay $255 million in Enron, Dynegy settlement
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today settled enforcement proceedings brought against JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup. Both firms’ settlements pertain to Enron-related proceedings brought by the SEC. Under the agreements, JP Morgan Chase will…
North American and Japanese Tracx to debut today
JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley will jointly launch two North American and one Japanese version of their Tracx credit default swap (CDS) index product today.
CME reports record earnings
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings, the parent company of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), yesterday reported record revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2003, spurred by strong trading volumes in its three largest product categories:…
Cad 3 will hit asset manager profits, says Mercer Oliver Wyman
The European Union's proposed third capital adequacy directive (Cad 3) will force European asset managers to hold significantly more capital than at current levels.
People swaps
SG reshuffles project finance and utilities divisions SG Corporate & Investment Banking, a subsidiary of Société Générale, has named Matthew Vickerstaff and Roger Bredder as the respective heads of project finance for Europe and the Americas. London…
Emerging adequacy
The Committee of Chief Risk Officers’ capital adequacy ‘emerging practice’ guidelines will, says the capital adequacy committee chair, evolve into a new regulatory body within a year. James Ockenden reports
Oil prices cause ripples in chemicals market
The chemicals market has been hit by the effects of high oil prices. Higher feedstock prices have brought higher end-product prices. Fame Information Services looks at styrene prices and the soaring costs of feedstocks, particularly in the ethylene market
Vince Kaminski
Vince Kaminski has returned home – both to his home town of Houston, and to an asset-based energy company – after a year with financial trader Citadel Investments in Chicago.
The trouble with normalisation
Weather derivatives practitioners say normalisation agreements between regulators and utilities in the US are posing a threat to their industry. Kevin Foster investigates
S&P to apply stress test to power firms
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is to apply a stress test designed to measure how well power companies can stand price swings in volatile electricity markets. The move is part of the credit rating agency’s effort to combat criticism of rating agency failure to…
Backwardation and contango change indicators for seasonal commodities
In the first part of this two-part article, Svetlana Borovkova introduced two indicators for detecting changes between backwardation and contango market states. Here, in the second part, she applies the indicators to seasonal commodities and introduces a…
A secure base
Long praised as pioneers in the energy derivatives space, US energy firms are now looking to make their overall risk management practices more robust. And, as Paul Lyon discovers, these companies have several innovations up their sleeves, such as…
Goldman helps Greece meet EU targets using large derivatives deal
US investment bank Goldman Sachs has structured a €10 billion swaps ($11 billion) contract to help the Greek government meet its European Union (EU) debt targets.
Job moves
People
HVB’s US operations upgrade with Front Arena
HVB Americas, the US arm of Germany’s HVB Group, is upgrading to SunGard’s Front Capital Arena version 2.0, to ensure the smooth start-up of a new business in Bermuda. HVB Americas said it needed the latest product since older Arena versions were…
Mirant raises prospect of bankruptcy
Energy company Mirant asked its bank lenders to approve a pre-packaged bankruptcy plan in June, suggesting the Atlanta-based company could be forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Ferc’s California clean-up
Sixty energy firms and utilities will have to justify their activities during the California energy crisis, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc) said in its regular bi-weekly meeting on June 25.