Alternative risk transfer
Pricing and optimization of sidecar and collateralized reinsurance portfolios with stochastic programming
This papers investigates problems in pricing and optimizing sidecar and collateralized reinsurance portfolios, employing a stochastic programming approach to solve these problems.
Structured products – The ART of risk transfer
Exploring the risk thrown up by autocallables has created a new family of structured products, offering diversification to investors while allowing their manufacturers room to extend their portfolios, writes Manvir Nijhar, co-head of equities and equity…
Korea tightens autocall oversight as local houses take on risk
Regulator sounds warning over $9 billion increase in structured product self-hedging by Korean firms
How Asia’s structured products dodged equities sell-off
Dealers deserve praise for improved structures, greater diversification and better risk transfer
Dealers turn to structured products for LCR relief
Liquidity options for tackling Basel-mandated LCR come of age
Alternatively weighted risk premium indexes gain momentum
Index providers and fund managers who have tended to focus on performance are seeing demand from investors for strategy indexes that focus on risk
HK regulator clarifies extraterritorial impact of OTC derivatives rules
A senior official at the Hong Kong securities watchdog says some exceptions are likely to be made to proposed new extraterritoriality rules on mandatory clearing and reporting OTC derivatives in Hong Kong
The stagnancy of risk transfer
It's fairly clear from our feature on alternative forms of risk transfer for op risk that not much has happened in this space over the past two years, despite a lot of fine words from both the insurance industry and its clients.
Advancing op risk management using Japanese banking experience
Junji Hiwatashi and Hiroshi Ashida of the Bank of Japan outline a practical framework for operational risk management, derived from research and experiences in Japan's financial community.