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public liability insurance should not prevent benefits from recent government policy changes being passed onto consumers. The … Commission found that the market environment in which public liability claims are managed remains competitive and should provide …
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Q. What do you have when you have a lawyer up to his neck in sand? A. Not enough sand.
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Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt einen Beitrag zur Bewertung von Mitarbeiterrisiken in Unternehmen dar. Es werden Ursachen determiniert, die einen Mitarbeiterausfall zur Folge haben. Diese werden auf ihre Eintrittswahrscheinlichkeit sowie möglicher Schäden hin untersucht. Darauf aufbauend wird...
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Value-at-Risk (VaR) determines the probability of a portfolio of assets losing a certain amount in a given time period … due to adverse market conditions with a particular level of confidence. Value-at-Risk has received considerable attention … from financial economists and financial practitioners for its use in risk reporting, in particular the risks of derivatives …
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transformation of the fund management industry in Singapore and focus on the improvement of its risk management practices. This … quality of both the survey responses and of the reported risk management practices has improved in the past three years. The …, investment styles and various kinds of risk exposures. Regrettably, still two thirds of the unit trusts do not provide any risk …
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Foreign exchange rates can be subject to considerable daily fluctuations (up to 5 percent within one day). This can, in certain cases, cause serious losses on open overnight positions. Given a maximum tolerable loss for a company, limits have to be set on open overnight positions in foreign...
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This paper examines the forecasting performance of GARCH’s models used with agricultural commodities data. We compare different possible sources of forecasting improvement, using various statistical distributions and models. We have chosen to confine our analysis on four indices which are the...
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Many interest rates are as volatile as exchange rates and thus represent an equally important source of risk for … interest rate exposure of nonfinancial firms. Consequently, this paper investigates the impact of interest rate risk on a large …
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rate risk on firm value could be detected empirically. This paper investigates whether the results of previous studies can …
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Using one of the key property of copulas that they remain invariant under an arbitrary monotonous change of variable, we investigate the null hypothesis that the dependence between financial assets can be modeled by the Gaussian copula. We find that most pairs of currencies and pairs of major...
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