Potential for instability over-hyped, says Ferguson
The potential for the new risk management instruments and techniques to produce instability has been overestimated, Federal Reserve vice-chairman Roger Ferguson told delegates at a conference in New York, sponsored by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Securities Industry Association.
Concerns that common approaches to risk management, such as value-at-risk modelling, may be promoting herding behaviour is unfounded, and regulators must not overestimate the role risk models play in decision making, Ferguson continued. “Risk managers get useful information from risk models. But judgment, experience, limits and procedures for exceptions also play significant roles in risk management,” Ferguson said. “As a consequence, risk models are never likely to be the dominant driver of the actions of financial firms and are therefore unlikely to generate significant herding behaviour.”
Furthermore, fears that insurance companies are unable to manage credit derivatives are also unwarranted, said Fergsuon.
Regulators should keep enough distance from the markets to give financial innovations such as credit derivatives a chance to succeed, Ferguson added. “The new market for credit derivatives has grown largely outside of traditional regulatory oversight, and...evidence to date suggests that it has made an important contribution to financial stability in the most recent credit cycle.”
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