Credit risk
New QIS5 gives more PD and LDG leeway
REGULATORY UPDATE
Introduction
Introduction
Time for multi-period capital models
Several financial institutions use single-period models to determine their credit portfolio lossdistribution, calculate their loss volatility and assign economic capital. Here, Kevin Thompson,Alistair McLeod, Panayiotis Teklos and Shobhit Gupta…
RiskNews
RiskNews
Most US lenders would survive bursting of a real estate bubble
Research by Standard & Poor’s suggests that most US mortgage firms would be able to withstand the bursting of a US housing bubble, despite the greater credit risk associated with current mortgage portfolios.
Demanding disclosure
The dislocation in the correlation markets in May confirmed supervisors' fears about concentration risk in the hedge fund sector. And this is fuelling pressure for hedge funds to make more data disclosure. But how would this help to reduce risk? By…
The CRO road
Some of the larger hedge funds have set up formal risk management functions, appointing independent chief risk officers (CROs) to oversee their business. But what role should a hedge fund CRO play, and are these appointments a precursor of wider changes…
TriOptima run sees $127 billlion in CDS torn up
Stockholm-based TriOptima said its latest credit default swaps (CDS) tear-up run has eliminated contracts with a notional value of $126.6 billion.
The CRO road
Risk management
Getting a head-start
North American Energy Credit and Clearing may have gained an advantage by being the first to clear over-the-counter physical electricity contracts. But it still has to prove that it is reliable and efficient. Joe Marsh reports
A capital idea
Arbitrage
Richard Hunter explains ... Ratings
Back to basics
Next-generation credit derivatives - A market forum
Credit Derivatives
Model behaviour
Correlation Models
Ralf Lierow
Profile
Filling the ratings void
Cover story
RiskNews
RiskNews
Credit looks to forward curves
New angles
Balancing the capital structure
Cover story
Demanding disclosure
Hedge funds
Thinking positively
How does one produce positive probability of default estimates if there are no default observations? Katja Pluto and Dirk Tasche propose a statistically based methodology to derive non-zero probabilities of default for credit portfolios with none or very…