Early November 2016 Fitch placed Deutsche Bank under negative ratings watch for its longer term issuer default, short term issue default viability and debt ratings. This indicates that there is a possibility that Fitch might lower the bank’s ratings if the outlook and results remain
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Portfolio Management I am teaching a new course on portfolio management and portfolio optimization at the S P Jain School of Management and Research in Dubai starting this Saturday. The sessions will run for six evenings for a group of Executive MBA students at the
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Skardu calling. The Shigar Khaplu break. After 2015’s amazing summer escape to Gilgit, this year we wanted to aim for something equally adventurous. Intrepid traveler and globe trotter Afia Salam suggested we take a look at Shigar and Khaplu and put us in touch with
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Hunza valley summer escape The road trip to Hunza via Gilgit, Chilas, Besham and Islamabad continues to its final leg. While the first two episodes documenting the road trip to Gilgit were completed and published in 2015, the Hunza episode remained outstanding. This year we were very fortunate
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Non traditional Actuarial Careers. On 19th October 2016, the Pakistan Society of Actuaries graciously invited me to speak on non traditional actuarial careers to an audience comprising largely of actuarial students. The objective was to give them a purview of all the non-actuarial things actuaries
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Applicability & minimum qualifying criteria Applicability criteria The IRB and advanced measurement approaches are applicable to the following financial institutions: Minimum qualifying criteria To be able to use these approaches institutions must meet the following minimum qualifying criteria on an on-going basis. The minimum qualifying
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Deriving zero rates and forward rates using the bootstrapping process is a standard first step for many valuation, pricing and risk models. Interest rate and cross currency swaps & interest rate options pricing & VaR models, revolving credit facilities & term B loans valuation models,
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The Federal Reserve published revised capital adequacy rules and regulations in July 2013 that follow the Basel III revisions to capital adequacy rules. In particular there are revised minimum capital & leverage ratios, a capital conservation buffer and more stringent criteria for instruments eligible for
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The Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) process is a US Federal Reserve supervisory program for large active banking holding companies (>=$50 billion in total consolidated assets) domiciled in the US. The CCAR exercise, which began in 2011 and carried out once every year, is
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Celebrating Juno’s arrival on Jupiter. A five year journey comes to its planned end this coming Tuesday. As Juno prepares for Jupiter Orbital Insertion (JOI), the sequence of event and planning required to get Juno to this point is worthy of a risk management case
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