The Swiss banking industry is in a transition: asset management should become a new pillar of the Swiss financial center. But Swiss banks are facing strong competition from traditional asset management hubs. How can the Swiss financial industry master this challenge and find the solutions that...

The conference brings together leading academics, central bankers and bank supervisors, and features keynote speakers Darrell Duffie (Stanford University) and Richard Berner (US Office of Financial Research). Questions for discussion will include: - How do global interconnections arise, and what...

This conference is dedicated to special topics in credit risk measurement and management as well as to the discussion of causes and impacts of events on international financial markets and current regulatory activities in the field. Topics: - Credit analysis and credit ratings - Credit portfolio...

This small, informal conference features high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.

Among the topics of interest are: - can firm characteristics (e.g., accounting ratios) be used to predict abnormal stock performance? - are firm fundamental values obtained from stock valuation models useful for stock selection? - does abnormal stock performance follow specific corporate...

Die Tagung richtet sich an Führungsorgane von Vorsorgeeinrichtungen sowie an Wirtschaftsprüfer, Pensionskassenexperten, Aktuare und alle anderen Personen, die Stiftungsräte und Pensionskassenleiter bei der Wahrnehmung ihrer Führungsverantwortung unterstützen. Programm: Durchführung 2006...

Topics at the workshop will be: 1. Relationship between different types of risk and their management 2. Implications of linkages between different types of risks 3. Incentives, risk transfers and systemic risk

Session A: Solvency requirements for insurers Session B: Policy contract certainty and catastrophic issues SessionC: Regulatory issues