Risk magazine
Going for gold
Energy and Commodity Rankings 2007: Metals
Top of the league
Energy and Commodity Rankings 2007: Energy
Wait and CDO
Profile
A new twist
CPDOs
Underlying concerns
Exchange-traded Funds
Playing hardball
Exchanges
TSE signs deal with NYSE
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) have signed a letter of intent establishing a strategic agreement between the world’s two largest exchanges.
The metals bubble
Metals
Pushing the boundaries
Credit Funds
Credit Risk
Introduction
Commodities
Introductiuon
Less is more
Hedge Fund Replication
Credit Suisse fills gap left by Bennett
Following Jeremy Bennett’s decision to take a sabbatical from his role as head of structuring, co-head of European fixed income and co-head of emerging markets at Credit Suisse, the bank has moved several other senior staff.
FSA cautions higher correlation may increase risk
Increasing correlation across asset classes and geographies has heightened the risk of a rapid widening of spreads and a decline in some asset classes, according to the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA).
When did the JGB market become efficient?
Focusing on the deviation from the fair-yield curve, Koichi Miyazaki and Satoshi Nomura discuss the transition in efficiency observed in the Japanese government bond market and find out that the turning point was in 1996, when the Japanese repo market…
Shortfall: a tail of two parts
Richard Martin and Dirk Tasche show that the expected shortfall, when used in the conditional independence framework, has an elegant decomposition into systematic (risk-factor-driven) and unsystematic parts. The theory is compared and contrasted with the…
The MSR remedy
Mortgages
Collateral thinking
Regulation
A mid-level playing field
Many banks across Europe are increasingly peddling derivatives to smaller corporate customers, and Lloyds TSB has been as active as any other, expanding its structuring and marketing teams in the UK to reach these mid-level clients. The Lloyds expansion…