Risk magazine - Vol 15 / No 6
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The benefits of Enron
Many corporations are keeping a low profile when it comes to their derivatives use. But when the Enron-related witch-hunts are over, companies may find that insurers and shareholders now view corporate hedging as a fiduciary duty
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “It is likely that doubt and a lack of market confidence will affect all energy trading for some time to come” Francis Hervé, chief executive of EDF Trading, the London-based trading subsidiary of Electricité de France (EDF),…
Nine billion ways to be snowed
Emanuel Derman separates real tools from passing trends in the risk management vocabulary. This article is adapted from his talk on Future Innovations in Risk Management, presented at the April Risk 2002 Conference in Paris
The active manager
SG Asset Management’s Stéphane Farouze provides tailor-made capital guarantees for investment managers. After closing some of the biggest deals in Europe, now he is eyeing the US
Weaving an integrated solution
A treacherous credit environment and growing awareness of the danger of credit and market risk correlation have convinced financial institutions that they need to evaluate these exposures together. To get a unified view, will they need to adopt unified…
Integrated credit risk management – are you ready?
Consolidating data across fragmented systems is crucial for integrated credit risk management – but it is not the whole story. In the first of four columns on the subject, David Rowe argues that organisational readiness is a more amorphous but equally…
A model companion
Derivatives and Internal Models by Hans-Peter Deutsch Palgrave 621 pages, $120 ISBN 0-333-97706-8