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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877680503321

Autore

Corcoran Clive M

Titolo

Systemic liquidity risk and bipolar markets : wealth management in todays macro risk on/risk off financial environment / / Clive Corcoran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, : John Wiley & Sons, c2013

ISBN

1-118-81845-8

1-118-41080-7

1-283-86941-1

1-118-41075-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

Bloomberg (UK)

Disciplina

332.6

Soggetti

Finance, Personal

Investments

Portfolio management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Cross-sectional asset correlations -- The changing character of financial markets -- The flash crash -- Detecting mini bubbles with the VPIN metric -- Foreign exchange and the carry trade -- The enigmatic performance of the Japanese yen -- The Aussie/yen connection 1 -- Precursors to illiquidity -- Mainstream financial economics groping towards a new paradigm -- Could a eurozone breakup trigger another systemic crisis? -- China, commodities, and the global growth narrative -- Drawdowns and tail risk management -- Liquidity and maturity transformation -- Emotional finance and interval confidence -- Adjusting to more correlated financial markets -- Appendix -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The dramatic and well chronicled crisis of 2007/8 marked a watershed moment for all stakeholders in global capital markets. In the aftermath, financial markets have become even more tightly coupled as correlations in returns across multiple asset classes have been at historically elevated levels. Investors and fund managers are, to a much larger degree than previously and often much more than they realize, subject to the risk of severe wealth destruction. The ultimate hazard,



which is not adequately characterized by the widely touted notion of tail risk, is the systemic risk which arises wh