Risk magazine
Local cross-entropy
One way of addressing the inconsistency between exchange-traded options prices and the Black-Scholes model is to attempt to find alternative risk-neutral distributions that are more consistent. However, non-uniqueness means an additional criterion is…
A credit loss control variable
Viktor Tchistiakov, Jeroen de Smet and Peter-Paul Hoogbruin explain and demonstrate how the efficiency of Monte Carlo simulation in valuing a portfolio of credit risky exposures is improved by the use of the Vasicek distribution as a control variable. An…
The standard threat to inflation swaps
Accounting standards
Inflating demand
Municipalities
Getting off the floor
Inflation options
The Monte Carlo mindset
Technology
Has insurance credit risk transfer been overplayed?
Credit guarantees
Inflated expectations?
Debt agencies
Credit risk
Introduction
Inflation risk
Introduction
The implications of implied correlation
Relative value
A capital solution
Insurance securitisation
Market questions Isda’s work on CDSs on ABS
New Angles
Risks for risk managers
Comment
Deutsche appoints new head of operational risk
Deutsche Bank has internally appointed Christian Sewing as global head of operational risk management (ORM), replacing Fred Peemoeller.
Record half-year for Eurex
Derivatives exchange Eurex turned over a record 553 million contracts in the first half of this year, up from 524 million contracts, around 5%, for the same period of 2003.
Poste Italiane to sue JP Morgan
New Angles
VAR: ready to explode?
Cover Story
UK pilots credit-guaranteed PFI
New Angles
Local dealers up the ante
2004 German rankings
Emerging slowly to Basel
New Angles
Bets on for credit spread warrants
Corporate hedging