by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jan 15, 2024 | Risk Report
Everyone knows that January is the time for sales. The market for government debt is no different. Come the new year, and countries around the world are looking to fund their budgets, which usually means that you can snag a good deal on treasury bonds. And in 2024 the...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jan 8, 2024 | Risk Report
Source: Wall Street Journal Those are the questions for entering 2024. The importance of interest rates to the global economy in general, and to our clients in particular, cannot be stressed enough (ha-ha.) And last year was a bumpy road trip chasing the elusive soft...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Dec 11, 2023 | Risk Report
Higher interest rates are meant to be good for banks. It should increase their net interest income, their profits, and their stock price. Instead, this year, the large US bank stocks have fallen 15% whereas the rest of the stock market is up 19%. The Economist calls...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Dec 4, 2023 | Climate Risk, Risk Report
Bad COP, Good COP, Take 28 This weekend is the COP28 (which stands for the 28th meeting of the conference of the parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)). It’s being held in Dubai, ten-thousands of people are flying in from all over the...
by Dominic Pazzula | Mar 29, 2021 | VOR
FRG regularly launches new models that will enhance the predictive capability of our VOR Private Capital Forecasting (PCF) solution. Together with our partner Preqin, FRG launched PCF last year to help private capital investors better forecast cash flows. Since then,...
