by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Feb 26, 2024 | Risk Report
Information about the Chinese financial markets is often fleeting, sparse, and long after the fact. This week, however, Bloomberg brought a piece on a recent Quant Quake, a headline too good to pass up. The piece talks about how Chinese quant hedge funds—hedge funds...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Feb 19, 2024 | Climate Risk, Risk Report
There is a new paper out that explores the need for a new category of hurricanes to capture those that have winds beyond 192 mph—of which the world has measured five, all in the last decade. The authors of the paper (James Kossin and Michael Wehner) predict that if...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Feb 5, 2024 | Risk Report
Yeah, well, there was a fear it might come, there were hints it might come, there were expert predictions it might come, there were small kids yelling: “It’s coming, it’s coming,” and this week it came: the office loan losses. It wasn’t a lot, but enough to evoke that...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jan 15, 2024 | Risk Report
Everyone knows that January is the time for sales. The market for government debt is no different. Come the new year, and countries around the world are looking to fund their budgets, which usually means that you can snag a good deal on treasury bonds. And in 2024 the...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jan 8, 2024 | Risk Report
Source: Wall Street Journal Those are the questions for entering 2024. The importance of interest rates to the global economy in general, and to our clients in particular, cannot be stressed enough (ha-ha.) And last year was a bumpy road trip chasing the elusive soft...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Dec 11, 2023 | Risk Report
Higher interest rates are meant to be good for banks. It should increase their net interest income, their profits, and their stock price. Instead, this year, the large US bank stocks have fallen 15% whereas the rest of the stock market is up 19%. The Economist calls...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Dec 4, 2023 | Climate Risk, Risk Report
Bad COP, Good COP, Take 28 This weekend is the COP28 (which stands for the 28th meeting of the conference of the parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)). It’s being held in Dubai, ten-thousands of people are flying in from all over the...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Oct 30, 2023 | Risk Report
Worry is within the purview of Team Regulator, and they do it well. This week, Gary Gensler of the SEC voiced his concern to FT that AI will cause substantial financial instability within the next decade. So here is his thinking: Financial institutions, especially...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Oct 23, 2023 | Climate Risk, Risk Report
It might not be the most spectacular Florida Man story, but it is one of the more concerning ones. In this year of extreme weather events—September was the warmest on record ever—insurance companies are adapting their business models to what is here and will keep...
by Tolani Makanjuola | Apr 25, 2023 | Business Analytics, General, Regulations
The multi-year implementation of the IFRS 17 accounting standard (“the standard”) has required significant enterprise-wide technology changes that have predictably proved challenging and complex for the insurance industry. Since 2017, industry players have...
