Opinion/Technology
Lagging risk management
The rate of growth in the complexity of new derivatives products is causing a worrisome lag in risk management's ability to keep pace. As credit derivatives markets endure a period of stress, this lag could have serious consequences, argues David Rowe
Is it really alpha?
Hedge funds often characterise their mission as the pursuit of pure alpha. A growing body of research, however, argues that a significant proportion of observed hedge fund returns are really alternative beta. David Rowe considers the implications for the…
Risk milestones
Anniversaries inevitably inspire an urge to reminisce. David Rowe lists several important public milestones and one personal milestone in the development of financial risk management
A dangerous idea
Encouraging and supporting sound internal risk management has become an important aspect of effective financial regulation. Imposing a regulatory capital charge for stress-test losses would undermine this important objective, argues David Rowe
A yen for financing
Yen-denominated mortgages have proven an attractive source of low-cost housing funding over the past 10 years. David Rowe asks whether these products are an accident waiting to happen
Internal models in Solvency II
Comment
A view on 2007
Viewpoint
From VAR to stress testing
Implementation of enterprise-wide VAR models in the 1990s was an important risk management advance, but it's time to rethink some fundamental aspects of how they were designed, argues David Rowe
The arrogance of hindsight
Some governments are reportedly becoming more active in using derivatives to manage their debt and funding costs. While arguably quite sensible, public distrust and sensationalist journalism present special dangers, argues David Rowe
Awakening giant?
Some circumstances endure long enough to become embedded in the unexamined assumptions of a generation. In the case of the Japanese economy, these assumptions could prove costly, argues David Rowe
Home-host conflict
Despite structural attempts at supervisory co-ordination, international banking groups need to foster bilateral understanding with their subsidiaries' host regulators, argues David Rowe
Dangerous perfection
Risk Analysis
Protect and survive
Risk analysis
A licence to print money?
matthew lynn
A step to Basel 1.5
Risk analysis
At long last...
Risk Analysis
No strings attached
louise purtle
The death of the hedge fund is much exaggerated
Columnist: matthew lynn