Peter Niculescu Opalesque Industry Update - In the wake of the AXA Rosenberg/SEC Model Risk settlement, Capital Market Risk Advisors (CMRA), a pre-eminent risk advisory and litigation support boutique for the past 20 years and the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE), a not-for-profit, professional society dedicated to fostering the profession of quantitative finance today released the results of a benchmarking survey of market practice concerning model risk. “The SEC settlement may foreshadow new rules governing model disclosure and oversight not only for quant funds but for banks, insurance companies, asset managers and Institutional Investors,” said Peter Niculescu, CMRA Partner and former Head of Fixed Income Research at Goldman Sachs and former Head of Capital Markets at Fannie Mae. The survey of financial institutions including banks, asset managers, insurance companies, and institutional investors found that:
“One possible result of the SEC settlement could be the application of much greater review and oversight requirements on investment and hedging models as well as on spreadsheets,” said Richard Lindsey, Chair of the IAFE and former Director of Market Research for the SEC. More detailed results have been sent to participants and will be discussed at the IAFE Annual Conference on May 16th-17th. (press release)
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
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