Risk Budgeting for Banks
Leslie Rahl and Nicholas Le Pan
Risk Budgeting for Banks
Risk Governance and Risk Appetite
Value-at-Risk: A Dissenting Opinion
Holistic Risk Budgeting
Theory of Risk Budgeting
Risk Budgeting for Active Investment Managers
Pension Funds and Incentive Compensation: A Based on the Ontario Teachers’ Experience
Risk Budgeting for Banks
Risk Budgeting in the Evolution of Insurance Company Risk Management
Hedge-Fund Risk Budgeting
Private Equity Risk Budgeting
While risk budgeting was originally developed as a tool for institutional investors, it can also be adapted as a useful tool for banks, but the evolution of risk budgeting for banks is probably where we were for pension funds when the first edition of this book was published in 2000. This chapter explores the issues in applying risk-budgeting concepts to banks.
While pension plans embraced risk budgeting earlier than banks and in many ways are more sophisticated in their use of it to drive risk-adjusted compensation than banks, banks generally have more sophisticated risk metrics and tools than are available to a pension plan.
The risk-budgeting process is actually two parallel processes: first, the numerically driven process (driven mainly by historic or projected financial results); and, second, a qualitative-driven process or “expert judgement”. Both are needed; one without the other does not work.
CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN APPLYING RISK BUDGETING TO BANKS
For pension funds or investment portfolios, risk budgeting is based on several key concepts. The principle is that asset-allocation decisions can benefit from measurement of active risk from a specific aspect of the portfolio
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