Risk magazine - Vol 15 / No 10
Articles in this issue
Economic capital: towards an integrated risk framework
Performance and bonuses are increasingly being assessed on profits after a charge for economic capital allocations. This has increased line managers’ interest in economic capital. As a result, risk managers must ensure that economic capital allocations…
Pricing debate bedevils employee option accounting
US corporates are lining up to advertise their virtue by being the latest to account for their employee stock options as an expense. But with no consensus on how to price these instruments, will it bring more clarity or confusion?
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The convergence of ALM and ERM
Banks seeking a truly complete view of their exposures are beginning to seek ways to integrate the enterprise risk management systems they use for their trading books with the asset and liability management systems they use for their banking books. Clive…
Pensions’ credit crisis
The markets’ swoon isn’t the only problem plaguing pension plans, according to credit derivatives dealers. They are also dangerously exposed to their own corporate sponsors. Navroz Patel reports on recent efforts to convince pensions to hedge this risk
First-class post
Stefano Calderano, head of retail products at BancoPosta, Poste Italiane’s financial services arm, has bankers throwing their balance sheets at his feet
Chapter 11: not the end of the story
With several major derivatives counterparties in or facing Chapter 11, an understanding of the legal ramifications of doing business with them is essential, say Mark Speiser and Sherri Venokur
Factoring in stock options
In the wake of recent corporate scandals, support has spread rapidly for including the cost of employee stock options as an expense item in corporate income statements. David Rowe argues that while some reform is appropriate, present trends could end up…
Learning the lessons
Risk’s quarterly round-up of corporate risk revelations shows that increasing shareholder and regulator expectations in the wake of US accounting scandals are having some effect on corporate disclosure, but companies still complain about losses from…
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