Asset management
Optimal allocation to hedge funds
Lionel Martellini and Mathieu Vaissie argue that it is only by taking into account the exact nature and composition of their existing portfolio that institutional investors can maximise the benefits they can expect from investing in hedge funds. To this…
Wachovia seeks to improve risk data
Wachovia is implementing the AC Plus data management system from Dutch vendor Asset Control within its corporate investment bank to improve risk management.
Hedge funds solve the risk culture puzzle
As recent reverses amply demonstrate, risks beyond investment risk can cause even the most sophisticated hedge funds to take a battering. Navroz Patel finds out about leading managers' greatest fears, and how they are tackling thorny issues such as…
Hedging of corporate pension liabilities
Bernd Scherer here proposes a normative theory of asset/liability management that views externally funded pension funds exclusively from a corporate finance point. Standard asset management solutions are derived after the corporate finance problem has…
EU Commission considers changes to op risk framework
The EU Commission is considering modest changes to the operational risk framework of its proposed capital adequacy directive (CAD), in response to comments received to its most recent draft, according to a source within the organisation.
Trema survey highlights poor operational risk controls
Trema, the Sophia Antipolis-based provider of asset management technology, has released the results of its Asset Management STP Survey conducted between June and August this year.
Operational risk biggest threat to hedge funds
LONDON - Operational risk is the biggest threat to hedge funds in both start-ups and established firms, speakers told the Pan-European Hedge Funds Summit held in London on October 23 and 24.
Basel II Accord will reshape global banking, says Mercer Oliver Wyman
The implementation of the new Basel Accord, also called Basel II, will reshape the global banking industry, according to a report to be released this week by Mercer Oliver Wyman, a New York-based financial services strategy and risk management consulting…
Modelling venture capital funds
Modelling venture capital funds is a challenge and has become more important due to recentand upcoming securitisation deals, the need for efficient portfolio management, and Basel II.Here, Thomas Meyer and Tom Weidig summarise the issues both industry…
VAR for fund managers
Investment management
European asset managers will feel the heat from CAD3
Compliance with the third capital adequacy directive (CAD3), a consultation paper recently released by the European Commission outlining the implementation of the Basel II Accord into EU legislation, may require European asset managers to hold…
European buy side still lags in risk management
The findings of a recent survey show that buy-side firms have increased their focus on risk management, but are still well behind their sell-side counterparts.
Debate and controversy mark Op Risk 2003 events
Delegates at the fifth annual Operational Risk and Risk magazine operational risk conferences in London and New York this March were treated to what one speaker described as a "smorgasboard" of discussions on the subject. Attendees could choose from…
BIS report highlights asset managers' role in inefficient markets
The structure of incentive schemes may limit the ability or willingness of institutional asset managers to act as a natural counterbalance to mispricing, according to the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) – a G-10 central bank forum that…
Quantifying the op risk in investment fund valuation
Fund management is often forgotten in the wider push towards quantitative operational risk management. Here, François Longin and Gautier Martin take a closer look at the operational risk that accompanies fund valuation.
Measuring the operational risk of fund valuation companies
How can we model the losses due to operational risk in asset management? The loss process approach provides an answer specifically suited to this question for the fund valuation business and is in line with the work in progress of the Basel Committee on…
Cad 3 - Against their will [full story]
Europe's asset management industry is chiding Brussels bureaucrats for trying to bury it under a mountain of Basel-inspired regulation, which could boost costs and capital charges.
Small firms welcome EU proposals
BRUSSELS - European investment firms welcomed the European Commission's decision to create a special regime for them in terms of the operational risk provisions of proposed new capital adequacy rules, according to trade bodies representing the firms.
European asset managers gear up for CAD3
European asset management firms wanting to comply with the most sophisticated measurement method allowed in the revised Basel Accords—the advanced measurement approach (AMA)—must prepare now, as it requires them to have a whole set of advanced risk…
Europe allows wider role for op risk insurance in Cad 3 [full story]
BRUSSELS - European banks and investment firms would be able to use operational risk insurance to reduce capital charges in all approaches to measuring op risk under new European Union (EU) capital adequacy rules, banking industry and regulatory sources…
Portfolio allocation to corporate bonds with correlated defaults
This article deals with the problem of optimal allocation of capital to corporate bonds in fixed income portfolios when there is the possibility ofcorrelated defaults. Under fairly general assumptions for the distribution of thetotal net assets of a set…
Cicada Offers Data Cleansing Service Options
Cicada, a consultant and provider of data cleansing and validation services, can now offer financial firms a mix of data cleansing and maintenance options.
European fund managers seek united voice on EU laws
LONDON – Two leading trade bodies representing European fund managers are looking at ways of providing a united voice on European Union (EU) laws and rules affecting them, including the EU’s third capital adequacy directive or Cad 3.