Energy

Less is more

Utilities are leading the chorus for greater energy efficiency in the US. But, as David Watkins discovers, their drive to secure profits while selling less power is proving to be a major regulatory challenge

The business of saying no

Rising energy prices have caused an upturn in demand response - or energy curtailment - in the last two years. Elisa Wood looks at how this is impacting power markets

Sovereign wealth saviours

The financial markets have found their new superhero. With major investment banks on their knees after whopping subprime-related writedowns and liquidity in the bond markets severely affected, the arrival of sovereign wealth funds, with their groaning…

Drying up down under

Liquidity in Australia's nascent structured credit market has suffered as a result of the subprime squeeze, leading to an inevitable bout of finger-pointing. Marion Williams reports

Column: Nigel Sillis

An anomaly in S&P's CDO Evaluator would have us believe that a AAA rated CDO is more likely to default than a AA+ corporate - fine in today's market, not so good in theory

Herd mentality

The unbridled success of the credit derivatives market over the past few years - until last summer, that is - had led large numbers of investors to adopt similar positions in the sector. Such risk concentration was always likely to cause problems if the…

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