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CPDO ratings scorned at credit risk summit
Rating agencies have come under attack once again for assigning ratings to constant proportion debt obligations (CPDOs), during a panel discussion at Risk’s 2007 Credit Risk Summit Europe in London.
Reuters launches new structured products platform
Trade and risk management vendor Reuters has launched the Kondor+ Structured Products (KSP) platform which enables users to design, price and manage the risk of structured products.
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Not stressed enough
Stress Testing
No silver bullet
The emergence of contingent credit default swaps has presented banks with a new way to manage their counterparty credit exposures. However, they have important limitations, argues David Rowe
"Seeing the whites of their eyes" - Asian opportunities abound, but do be sure to look closely before you leap
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Dealing with volatility
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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
Barclays goes online with iShare trading
Barclays Capital is now offering online trading of iShares via its award winning Barx investor solutions platform. Once enabled, clients will be able to instantly click and trade ishares. The benefits of trading on the platform include tighter spreads…
Matchmakers
Post-trade confirmation in the energy market, once slow and prone to error, is becoming increasingly efficient due to the successful rollout of trade confirmation standards. David Watkins looks at how two of the competing standards have developed
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…
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The responsive alternative...
Barclays Capital's Michael Brian explains hedge funds' nimbleness does put pressure on prime brokers to respond in kind but, as is the case with all rapidly changing industries, the cream does still rise to the top
The net widens
Grid computing is ubiquitous in investment banking, yet until now the energy trading and risk management space has been slow on the uptake. This looks set to change, reports David Watkins
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SunGard brings out new asset-management product
SunGard launches product to cater to globalising asset management firms and their providers
ETG Capital opens energy hedge fund
Houston-based hedge fund firm ETG Capital Management has launched an energy fund.
Making up lost ground
Institutional Investor end-user Rankings 2007
A cracked barrel?
Debate over the suitability of West Texas Intermediate as a benchmark crude resurfaces regularly, but recent price activity in the US oil contract – which influences the entire energy complex – is causing consternation. David Watkins reports
Islamic finance supplement - Sukuk: caveat emptor
Demand for Shariah-compliant investment opportunities is exploding, but is the global market for sukuk guilty of ignoring the risks? Philip Moore investigates