Vince Kaminski
Lessons from two commodity defaults
Regulators and exchanges need to learn from the Greenhat/PJM and Norwegian Nasdaq defaults
Winds of change will continue to roar for energy markets
Financial crisis and shale revolution show nothing is certain - Kaminski
Is the financialisation of commodities being reversed?
Energy industry veteran Kaminski offers a verdict - and some career advice
Video: Enron 'best' and 'lowest' career moment, says Kaminski
Former research head gives wide-ranging interview on past and present of energy markets
Economists, like hedge fund traders, need open minds
Economists, risk managers and traders must learn the lessons of crisis, says Kaminski
Energy scarcity warrants tough response to market abuse
Regulators must take energy market manipulation seriously, argues Kaminski
Practitioners must take risk measures with a pinch of salt
Buffett's warning on perils of volatility is well justified, argues Kaminski
Oil prices collapse: assessing the ‘known unknowns’
Vincent Kaminski explores the potential dangers lurking in oil markets
Energy traders ignore legal risk at their peril
Legal risk can be disastrous but is hard to tackle, argues Kaminski
Market manipulation won’t be stopped by Socrates or Spinoza
Graduates must be warned of the serious risks of market abuse
Energy markets need more than second-hand credit models
Financial models fall down in energy markets, argues Kaminski
Energy Risk 20th Anniversary Lifetime Achievement Awards
Contributions to commodity trading and risk management honoured
Ethics and moral standards are as crucial to finance as ever
Carney’s words echo work of Émile Zola on the value of social capital
TXU bankruptcy holds lessons for risk managers
‘This will never happen’ is no alternative to proper planning
Energy Risk marks 20 years of covering energy markets
Over two decades, magazine has shared in industry’s highs and lows
Risk managers should learn from the mistakes of others
Early warning signs can provide vital clues to firms with ‘feet of clay’
Resist the rise of the risk management machines
Overreliance on modern risk management systems, and metrics such as value-at-risk, can blind firms to tectonic structural market shifts. To help alleviate this problem, the use of human judgement and intervention is required, argues Vincent Kaminski
Risk management should be more than just a decoration
Despite massive investment in human capital and technical resources, risk managers failed to warn about the dangers of toxic assets and excessive leverage in the run-up to the global financial crisis. Their lack of authority is partly to blame, writes…
An anatomy of financial and energy market bubbles
Despite differences in the detail, the mechanics that unfold during episodes of financial and energy market hype are the same. To avoid repeating the errors of the past, companies and individuals should bear them in mind, argues Vincent Kaminski
Book extract: Energy Markets by Vince Kaminski
Vincent Kaminski’s new book Energy Markets, published by Incisive Media, will be released on January 18 and is now available for pre-order. Below is an edited extract of the author’s introduction in which he explains the content and philosophy of the…
New dynamic risk measure launched
Tool can capture the time evolution of market risk for energy and commodity-linked positions