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A safe bet
Financing trade movements between emerging markets and developed markets can be a lucrative, if slightly dull, market
A market too far?
Are UK retail investors as prepared for the hedge fund market, as the marketeers of hedge funds lead us to believe?
Getting ahead
Cate Rocchi discovers how Wessex Asset Management found success in the Asia Pacific region
A new lease of life
Hedge fund service providers looking to stay ahead in the marketplace are turning to corporate websites to communicate with their customers
Taking to the saddle
Credit portfolio modelling
Why Basel must brush-up on credit
Paul Kupiec of the International Monetary Fund argues that unresolved calibration problems remain with the new Basel Accord’s credit risk capital requirements – problems that may lead banks to make damaging risk decisions.
Data trouble
Regulators insist that they want a capital charge on banks’ operational risks. But the plan rests on the ability of banks to collect data and model the risks involved, and there’s a frightening lack of agreement on how to do that.
Basel II will be modified, says Canadian bank regulator
A survey of financial institutions’ views on the Basel II capital accord is expected to result in global banking regulators modifying some of the accord’s controversial aspects, according to a Canadian bank regulator involved in the survey.
Basel II accord makes op risk software this year’s hot topic
The sophistication of analytical software for managing operational risk will increase dramatically over the next year. Such was the message delivered by Charles Smithson, managing partner of financial consultants Ritter Associates, to the annual risk…