Cover story
The Structured Products Independent Financial Adviser survey
IFAs fight the flak
Insurers look to hedging strategies to deal with management charge volatility
Securing future value
Asia Risk awards 2011: The winners!
Asia Risk awards 2011: The winners!
Esma outlines aims for regulatory consistency
Consistent effort
Life & Pension Risk - 2011 awards
Life & Pension Risk rewards best practice and innovative thinking in its 2011 awards
The rise of sovereign commodity risk management
Sovereign commodity risk management
Margin models converge as CCPs battle for dealer support
Dealers say they won’t join clearing houses that are not robust – and have already blackballed one central counterparty. As a result, the initial margin methodologies employed by the big rates clearers have begun to converge. Matt Cameron reports
State-sponsored money and the new market order
Sovereign wealth of nations
Are Canadian oil sands setting a new crude oil floor price?
Setting a new floor price?
Foreign regulators leave US isolated on uncleared margin rules
The extraterritorial application of US uncleared margin proposals will make it tough for US banks to compete with their foreign counterparts unless the proposals are copied by regulators elsewhere
A flying start for offshore renminbi but equity structures in short supply
Offshore appreciation
Are ETRM systems ready for more reporting?
Ready to report
Korean authorities crack down on equity-linked warrants
Arrested warrants
The product no-one wants to sell: portability held up by lack of rules
Under-the-counter derivatives
Lamb discusses CME Clearing Europe's goals
A clear goal
Approaches to strategic risk for energy risk managers
Strategic move
Structured credit landscape revives the basics
Credit goes back to basics
Italy fiscal struggles raise new fears over creditworthiness
On the face of things Italy’s economy looks to be the most robust of all the so-called PIIGS countries, but scratch beneath the surface and you find a worrying picture emerging
Omnibus II set to push back Solvency II implementation even further
The art of compromise
Asia readies for new hedge accounting rules
Brought to account
Client clearing poses acute liquidity risks
Margin jump risk