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Auction-rate securities - The sewers of Jefferson County - Jefferson County, Alabama is teetering on the brink of the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. Risk reports on ho...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 6, pp. 45-48
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008070351
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Inflation trading - Inflated or deflated? With rising inflation making headlines around the globe, inflation derivatives dealers are seeing trading volumes pick up, but report surp...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 7, pp. 40-45
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008081614
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Operational risk - Back in fashion - Operational risk has once again become a focus for banks following the rogue trading scandal at Société Générale and the credit crisis. How exa...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 8, pp. 51-53
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008092416
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The rates escape - A sudden inversion of the euro interest rate curve in June caught dealers and investors by surprise, causing huge losses for those that had put on curve steepene...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 8, pp. 24-27
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008092424
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Quant funds - Don't follow the herd - Quantitative equity funds were sent tumbling in July after a reversal in momentum trading strategies. A year after the major quant funds were...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 9, pp. 88-91
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008107451
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Rising above it? Merrill Lynch's decision to ditch its collateralised debt obligation portfolio in July has been spun as a brave attempt to draw a line under its structured credit...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 9, pp. 20-25
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008107461
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Interest rates - Vanilla's the flavour - Rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve have led to a sharp steepening of the yield curve, contributing to falling sales of constant maturity s...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 3, pp. 61-79
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10007993213
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Legal risk - Subprime and punishment - The subprime crisis is moving from the boardroom to the courtroom and Wall Street is in the dock. The number of class action lawsuits rose sh...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 3, pp. 49-53
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10007993216
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Timeline - A tragedy in three acts - Last year was the most difficult in the markets since 1998, with rising delinquencies in the US subprime mortgage market sparking a crisis of c...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 1, pp. 84-85
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10007909183
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Liquidity risk - Lost in the crowd - The simultaneous unwinding of quantitative hedge fund portfolios last August, along with the liquidity crunch in the credit market, has high-li...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 1, pp. 80-83
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10007909184