Opinion/Risk management
Editor's letter: December 2010
Editor's letter: December 2010
Ellen Davis: Bringing back the Belgian dentist
New EU-wide regulations for retail investment products are needed to lure investors back into European securities, according to speakers at the ICFR conference in Amsterdam
Editor's letter: November 2010
Editor's letter: November 2010
Editor's letter – Managing liquidity risk amidst regulatory reforms
Editor’s letter - October 2010
Cost of op risk failings rising
Outlook: fines
Analysing correlations under stress
Analysing correlations under stress
BP: lessons learned
BP: lessons learned
Low liquidity is the new norm for portfolio managers: Caveat Emptor column
Portfolio managers accustomed to building books in neat blocks of $50 million may struggle to unwind such positions in the new liquidity-starved secondary markets.
Editor’s letter - Energy end-users special report
Editor’s letter - Energy end-users special report
Organisational aspects of risk management
In the last of this four-part series, David Rowe looks at organisational issues and argues the chief executive and board must accept responsibility for strategic risk management decisions
Change is the only constant
Regulatory change is inevitable, but those in Basel say they are taking it slow
Beyond distributional analysis
In the third article in a four-part series, David Rowe considers the need for financial risk management to move beyond distributional analysis to consider more qualitative inputs
Credit ratings are a necessary evil: Gary Jenkins column
Credit rating agencies have been an easy target for investors’ ire – and in many cases the condemnation has been justified. But ratings perform an important function in the markets.
Looking at Black Swans
In the second of a four-part series on the development of risk management, David Rowe considers the phenomenon of high-impact events, or Black Swans
Pass the microphone: Nodal’s Cusenza to LCH.Clearnet’s Grensted
In this month’s Pass the Microphone, Paul Cusenza of Nodal Exchange puts his questions to Simon Grensted, Managing Director, Business Development, at LCH.Clearnet