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Creditsights : APAC Fixed Income Conference 12th July Hongkong , 14th July Singapore
CreditSights, a leading independent credit research provider, is hosting its 2016 Asian Credit Conferences in Hong Kong on July 12th and in Singapore on July 14th. These conferences are designed to allow attendees to interact with CreditSights analysts and hear their views on their respective sectors; there are also opportunities for attendees to network with other professionals in the Asian Fixed Income space.
Below are the focus topics CreditSights has announced for the 2016 Asian Credit Conferences:
– Global Strategy
o Brexit/US economy/Interest rate outlook
o Outlook on US, Euro IG/HY
– China Panel
o Credit Growth Shadow Banking
o Onshore Bond Market Issues
o Lessons from Japan
– APAC Banks
o Health of banking system in APAC
o TLAC
– APAC Corporates
o China Property Outlook
o China Industrials Outlook
o Indian/Indonesian Corporates Outlook
CreditSights conferences are offered on a complimentary basis to institutional…
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An Introduction to Stress Testing: Oil Prices, Default Probabilities and Credit Spreads
Over the last 18 months, the dramatic fall in oil prices has triggered a dramatic widening of credit spreads and default probabilities for oil-related firms. To a slightly lesser degree, the same kind of macro factor sensitivity in the credit spreads and default probabilities in firms closely associated with other basic commodities. This note explains the “reduced reduced form” modeling approach used in Kamakura’s KRIS default probability service to link forward looking macro factors to simulated default probabilities. We refer readers interested in more detail to the recent note from Kamakura “Bank of America and CCAR 2016 Stress Testing: A Simple Model Validation Example” and the references at the end of this note.
Top Free Financial Tools and Resources Every Finance Professional Must Know
Finance and investment jobs are perhaps some of the world’s most mind-crunching careers.
These professions carry with them a lot of complicated processes and activities. A lot of terms and formulas are so hard they can quickly be forgotten. One can easily get lost somewhere in the middle.
That’s why, over time, financial tools are being made to make things easier.They either aid in creating dynamic worksheets or maybe as simple as helping professionals in monitoring market developments.But, these financial tools are provided for a cost… but not always.
Hedge Fund Assets Take Hit in 2016’s First Quarter
Hedge funds suffered their largest industry outflow of capital since 2009 in the first quarter, according to Hedge Fund Research’s latest HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report.
Global Growth Challenges: Horses For Courses
Global Growth Challenges: Horses For Courses
In the past eight years since the global economy suffered a financial heart attack that thrust it into a sharp, deep recession, economic policy has been in the spotlight and has been hotly debated, as governments and central banks have intervened in unprecedented ways and on an unprecedented scale to stabilize, stimulate, and refashion markets and economies. Gone, for now at least, are the days when macroeconomic policy was largely a fine-tuning exercise of central banks, and certainly gone are the days when markets could be assumed to be self-regulating. The recent slowdown in the global economy and recurrent bouts of market turbulence, giving rise to such policy actions as negative policy interest rates but also partly reacting to them, have caused renewed soul searching about appropriate policy choices. The growth and other challenges confronting the global economy demand policy action, but the policy…
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