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Under the microscope
Wealth management
Doing the maths: physical value-at-risk
ABB’s William Rutz and Bob Fesmire investigate new tools that calculate physical value-at-risk based on simulations of generating resources and power transactions
Build in or buy out?
Is it more cost-effective for companies to buy available systems from vendors or to develop and deploy their own energy trading and risk management solutions? Bob Bridger of Vedaris looks into the dilemma faced by many companies
Fighting oil volatility
Oil cartel Opec froze its production output level at its last meeting in September. With war in Iraq on the cards, Shifa Rahman reports on the future of oil volatility
Getting protected
Insurance premiums may have rocketed for power companies over the past year but new ‘dual-trigger’ insurance products could still be an efficient way of transferring price risk. James Ockenden reports
A rollercoaster ride
Foreign exchange
Reacting to spreads
Credit derivatives
A cooling environment
Convertible bonds
Fighting credit risk demons
Credit risk
A question of priorities
Basel Accord
Pooling the resources
Securitisation
Looking for alternatives
Hedge funds
Landesbanken's operational risk management tool
Many German banks lag behind their peers when it comes to operational risk management. The proposed new international bank capital accord, Basel II, which - for the first time - stipulates a separate capital charge for operational risk, has put the topic…
Tracing Transparency
Corporate bond traders are hesitantly embracing greater transparency and trying to figure out how to use it.
Budgeting for 2003
Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and State Street outline how next year's budget will be spent. For starters, it will be spent cautiously.
Diversification of Morgan Stanley
One year after Sept. 11, Morgan Stanley contemplates a simple thought with complex repercussions: Don't put all of your eggs in one basket.
Back to Bayesics
Gerald Sampson, of Saratoga Consulting, argues that a Bayesian approach to analysing transaction failures produces superior results.
Legg Mason Gets a Leg Up on Disclosure
Baltimore-based Legg Mason is one of the first firms to tap software to comply with NASD Rule 2711 about disclosing conflicts of interest.
Reaping integration rewards
In the October issue of Risk, Clive Davidson discussed the integration of ALM and ERM technology. Here, in a second article, he profiles the firms that have tackled this project and reviews the challenges, advantages and pitfalls of the integration…
An agency apart
The Financial Services Agency has more than its share of critics, thanks to controversial regulations and its handling of the banking crisis. A senior official at the agency talks about what lies ahead.
OpVar 4.2 unveiled
New York-based operational risk quantification firm OpVantage - a division of Fitch Risk Management - has launched version 4.2 of its OpVar operational risk product suite. The suite allows users to collect op risk data, analyze loss probabilities, scale…
Forced to fit in
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