Risk magazine - Volume15/No7
Articles in this issue
Banks and commodities: against the tide
Introduction
Confidence is critical
OTC clearing
Slow start for World Bank hedging programme
Emerging markets
Gold shines again
Private clients
It’s all in the technique
Fund manager profiles
The maturity effect on credit risk capital
In a mark-to-market approach to credit risk capital, ratings or spread volatility has the effect of making longer-maturity loans more capital-intensive. This is incorporated in the current Basel II proposals via a maturity adjustment factor. Arguing that…
A two-factor mean-reverting model
Commodity markets exhibit multi-factor behaviour as well as mean reversion. Building upon their previous paper, David Beaglehole and Alain Chebanier conclude the current Masterclass series by developing a two-factor mean-reverting model for crude oil…
On the log-log linearity of the size distribution of growth stocks
Mauboussin & Schay (2000)1 discovered an almost linear relationship between the logarithm of the market capitalisation and the logarithm of the rank for growth stocks. Kou & Kou (2001)2 proposed an explanation for this observation based on the theory of…
Risk and probability measures
Although its drawbacks are well known, VAR has become institutionalised as the market risk measure of choice among trading firms and regulators. Now there is a growing feeling that a reappraisal is overdue, exemplified here by Phelim Boyle, Tak Kuen Siu…
