Book contributions by Risk Staff
Portfolio Construction and Management
Edited by Brice Benaben and Julien Jarmoszko
Articles by Risk Staff
The outlook for Ford
Talking point
Investment grade
Secondary market liquidity
Leveraged loan CDS
Looking beyond the hype
Swiss restructuring
As regulatory pressure on insurance companies to improve their solvency requirements increases, one reinsurer's reaction stands out from the crowd. Hardeep Dhillon looks at how Swiss Re is using innovative structures in the debt capital markets to…
Thomas Huertas
The director of the wholesale firms division and banking sector leader at the Financial Services Authority in London outlines the progress made in resolving the operational problems in credit derivatives processing. Interview by Nikki Marmery
High yield
Secondary market liquidity
Convertibles are back in fashion ... but how can they avoid the pitfalls of the past?
Convertible bonds are back on investors' radars after an overvalued market imploded early last year. But how sustainable is the recovery - and how can it avoid repeating the pattern of the last bloodbath? Jean-Paul Carbonnier investigates
Cash-CDS basis
Market graphic
Credit derivatives: the next generation
Now that credit default swaps and other credit derivatives are moving into the mainstream of financial trading, a new range of products and structures are being developed using synthetic techniques. Calyon's Loic Fery and Ally Chow review some of these…
Paying a premium for bank analysts
Bank analysts are paid more than other credit analysts; but are they really worth it? Toby Nangle did the number-crunching to find out
