Risk magazine - Volume19/No12
Articles in this issue
A feast of futures
Associated British Foods is significantly exposed to commodity price fluctuations. Anna Gordon-Walker asks the company's finance team how it manages these diverse risks
From VAR to stress testing
Implementation of enterprise-wide VAR models in the 1990s was an important risk management advance, but it's time to rethink some fundamental aspects of how they were designed, argues David Rowe
Time of life
Longevity risk
Sovereign remedy
The World Bank, the lender of last - and often first - resort for the poorer nations of the world, uses derivatives to hedge its own risk book much as any other bank would. But it has another important role in the risk business: acting as an intermediary…
Pennies for a price
Equity derivatives
A risky climate
Climate change
Maximum draw-down and directional trading
Maximum draw-down measures the worst drop in a market in a given time period. Jan Vecer shows how to price and replicate this event. Replication can be naturally linked to existing popular trading strategies, such as momentum or contrarian trading
The saddlepoint method and portfolio optionalities
Richard Martin describes the application of saddlepoint methods to the calculation of tranche payouts and expected shortfall in loss distributions. Aside from computational use in their own right, the resulting formulas motivate a forthcoming discussion…
A telling scope
The number of technical articles submitted each year to Risk has stabilised at around 90, and a high proportion of them are still about credit derivatives and credit portfolio risk analysis. In fact, in our Cutting Edge pages and behind the scenes we…
Operational VAR: meaningful means
Making the assumption that the distribution of operational loss severity has finite mean, Klaus Böcker and Jacob Sprittulla suggest a refined version of the analytical operational value-at-risk theorem derived in Böcker & Klüppelberg (2005), which…
VAR versus expected shortfall
John Hull discusses the limitations of VAR and the relative advantages of an alternative measure, expected shortfall
Reconstructing loan management
European banks are taking advantage of the benign credit environment to overhaul the way they manage their loan portfolios. With credit spreads at record lows, banks are increasing their use of credit derivatives for hedging. By Rachel Wolcott
The gamma trap
Interest Rate Exotics
Introduction
Risk management for investors
On the button
Structured Products
Introduction
Technology
Crossing boundaries
Portfolio Margining
Over the wall
Compliance
Liquidity's new routes
Listed Options
New and improved
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