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Good bankers need not care about systemic risk | 18 comments (18 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Good bankers need not care about systemic risk (none / 1)

What's the demographic breakdown of people who primarily play with derivatives?

Is it primarily pension fund managers, or primarily mavericks and hedge fund 'activists'?

I'm thinking if it's the latter - too bad.

The former might be more of a problem, of course.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Apr 23rd, 2007 at 12:18:51 PM EST
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Re: Good bankers need not care about systemic risk (none / 1)

I dunno what the money breakdown is, but all the big banks have huge derivative portfolios both for themselves and indirectly since they loan the money for traders.

by citizen k (sansracine yahoo.fr) on Mon Apr 23rd, 2007 at 03:35:24 PM EST
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Re: Good bankers need not care about systemic risk (none / 1)

Pension funds, Money Market Banks, International Banks, hedge funds, arbitrage firms, the big stock market companies, buy-out firms, "privatization" companies, mutal fund companies, major international corporations, & etc & so on.

Even some goverments have gotten into the act.

by ATinNM on Mon Apr 23rd, 2007 at 06:42:16 PM EST
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Re: Good bankers need not care about systemic risk (none / 1)

From my perspective, it seems fragile. But maybe it is really doing what it is supposed to be doing and managing risk. The problem comes if the models are wrong and an assumption that A goes down only when B goes up runs into a situation in which they both drop like rocks.

by citizen k (sansracine yahoo.fr) on Mon Apr 23rd, 2007 at 10:44:27 PM EST
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