5 to 7 years, to study the nature of the link between credit risk and market risk, widely acknowledged in the academic …

Insurance and reinsurance live and die from the diversification benefits or lack of it in their risk portfolio. The new … solvency regulations allow companies to include diversification in their computation of risk-based capital (RBC). The question … is how to really evaluate those benefits.To compute the total risk of a portfolio, it is important to establish the rules …

Risk transmission among financial markets and their participants is time- evolving, especially for the extreme risk … scenarios. Possibly sudden time variation of such risk structures ask for quantitative technology that is able to cope with such … situations. Here we present a novel localized multivariate CAViaR-type model to respond to the challenge of time-varying risk …

nonelectronics subindex (NFNE) futures for cross hedging the price risk of stock sector indices traded on the Taiwan stock exchange … hedging strategy using only the NFNE futures. This shows the importance of hedging the global equity systematic risk of stock …

In line with regulations and common risk management practice, the credit risk of a portfolio is managed via its … computations to exposure computations, firms find it expedient to compute these exposures under the risk neutral measure.Here we … show that exposures computed under the risk neutral measure are essentially arbitrary. They depend on the choice of …

The recent financial crisis has highlighted the need for an integrated risk management system addressing all the … the boundaries drawn by risk management models. With various countries working towards more regulations this article lists … key areas of concern namely systematic risk, capital management, Basel II, excessive leverage, migration from OTC to …

The calculation of the capital charge for CVA risk, as required by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, is … CDSs and CDS indices, and we also evaluate the level of basis risk still remaining under the hedge. We address several … questions: Is there enough diversification of risk in a global credit portfolio to allow for a good hedge? Is basis risk higher …

evaluation of the methodological and empirical advances in the measurement of the extreme market risk. This paper argues that a … sustain the rise of financial markets. Thereafter, this review identified the value at risk (VaR) and VaR-based alternative … expected shortfall (ES) as the principal measures of extreme market risk. The deficiencies in the standard modelling approaches …

Historical evidence like the global financial crisis from 2007-09 highlights that sector concentration risk can play an … II consider only name concentration risk explicitly in their solvency capital requirements for asset concentration risk … and neglect sector concentration risk. We show by means of US insurers' asset holdings from 2009 to 2018 that substantial …