Asset liability management for financial institutions
Subtitle: balancing financial stability with strategic objectives
By: edited by Bob Swarup
Series: Key concepts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Information
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781849300414
Subjects: Asset-liability management
Description: "Effective asset-liability management (ALM) of a financial institution requires making informed strategic and operational decisions. Ever more important in the wake of the corporate bailouts and collapses of the financial crisis, ALM encompasses the formulation, implementation, monitoring, and revision of strategies, often on a daily basis due to the fast-moving nature of the related risks and constraints."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Effective asset-liability management (ALM) of a financial institution requires making informed strategic and operational decisions. Ever more important in the wake of the corporate bailouts and collapses of the financial crisis, ALM encompasses the formulation, implementation, monitoring, and revision of strategies, often on a daily basis due to the fast-moving nature of the related risks and constraints. This approachable book features up-to-date practitioner and academic perspectives to provide you with the knowledge you need. Key foundation information is backed up by the latest research and thought leadership to form a comprehensive guide to ALM for today and into the future, with case studies and worked examples. Detailed coverage includes: * Successful risk management frameworks * Coherent stress-testing * Modeling market risk * Derivatives and ALM * Contingency funding to manage liquidity risks * Basel III capital adequacy standard * Investment management for insurers * Property and casualty portfolio management * Funds transfer pricing * Problem loan modeling
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.