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The 1998 failure of Long-Term Capital Management (‘LTCM’), a very large and prominent Greenwich, Connecticut based hedge fund, is said to have nearly brought down the world financial system. Over the years, few financial debacles such as LTCM, have been so often written about or discussed...
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The hedge fund represents a unique investment opportunity for the institutional and private investors in the diffusion-type financial systems. The main objective of this condensed article is to research the hedge fund’s optimal investment portfolio strategies selection in the global capital...
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Currently, the financial institutions are exposed to different types of risks, which has increased the need for new analytical instruments for the risk management, being one of most developed the Value at Risk (VaR). There are different methods of calculation; however, as it was affirmed, there...
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requirement as well as the resulting change in bank capital. A spreadsheet is attached which allows to reproduce all the …
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This study aimed to a stock portfolio formed with composite of companies market (PER, PBV, ROE, EPS, PSR, and B/M, VaR) and accounting performance (ROE, and EPS) also their market capitalization in Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2003-2006. Some clarification need to achieved, such as: real...
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The role of information’s processing in bank intermediation is a crucial input. The bank has access to different types … a bank relationship, is qualitative and non verifiable, therefore manipulable, but produces more precise estimation of … to the banker but requires particular organizational modifications within the bank, as it allows to reduce capital …
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We examine whether hedging effectiveness is affected by asymmetry in the return distribution by applying tail specific metrics to compare the hedging effectiveness of short and long hedgers using Oil futures contracts. The metrics used include Lower Partial Moments (LPM), Value at Risk (VaR) and...
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In this paper we discuss popular market and default risks modeling. We highlight some shortcomings. Then, we present the prospect and cumulative prospect theories. We discuss again the previous models under behavioral finance framework and get different results. Based on these results, we...
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Market Risk Management Process in India is in an evolving process since the Banks in India are still in an early stage of development in the sense that they are lacking statistical database, equipped MIS and adequate supply of trained personnel. Many a good number of banks are suffering from...
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This paper employs extreme downside risk measures to estimate the impact of the global financial crisis in 2008/2009 on equity markets in major oil producing Middle East countries. The results in the paper indicate the spillover effect of the global crisis varied from a country to another, but...
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