Environment-Renewables
Quantifying the op risk in investment fund valuation
Operational risk
BAE Systems: poor defence
Credit of the month
Sector roundup
Sectors
Advancing op risk management using Japanese banking experience
TECHNICAL FOCUS
No cure through the cycle
Risk analysis
Hedging equity risk in pension plans
Sponsor’s statement
Modelling the unthinkable
Insurance special – Terrorism insurance
AIR releases US temperature database
AIRWeather, a division of Boston-based natural hazard modelling company AIR Worldwide Corporation, yesterday released PerfecTemp Hourly, claiming that it is the first cleaned and reconstructed hourly station temperature database for the US. PerfecTemp…
Mark-it plans to offer data pricing service for structured credit
Mark-it Partners, a two-year-old company founded by senior bankers at Canada’s Toronto Dominion, is in advanced negotiations to set up a data pricing service for collateralised debt obligations (CDOs). If successful, this could become the first such…
New Market, New OMS Sales Pitch
Baring Asset Management is doing something that a lot of trade order management vendors and market analysts wish the rest of the financial world would do: after implementing a new third-party order management system to replace its older in-house system,…
Hedge fund of fund investors may start using overlays
Improved risk exposure reporting by hedge funds may spark the introduction of new overlay strategies by investors increasingly concerned by bubbles of non-diversifiable risk in their portfolios.
Judicial stalemate
Germany
Ahead of the green game
Germany
Premier cru
Credit rating unit
What lies beneath?
CDO pricing
Credit’s minefield
Credit bombs
The lessons of war
Cover story