Commodity Research and Reports
Stress testing practices and supervision
London, 13 April 2012
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today published a peer review of the implementation by national supervisory authorities of the Basel Committee’s principles for sound stress testing practices and supervision.
Investment management opinions of SWFs
London, 3 April 2012
In a new survey by EDHEC-Risk entitled What Asset-Liability Strategy for Sovereign Wealth Funds? produced as part of a research chair supported by Deutsche Bank, Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) respondents have underlined the need for a change in investment practices to take into account both short-term constraints and liabilities.
European Corporate Finance Study
Stamford, CT, 28 March 2012
Faced with reduced margins on loans and other core businesses as a result of the strict capital reserve requirements included in Basel III, European banks are conducting bottom-up reviews of how, when and with which clients they deploy balance sheets — a process that could have significant repercussions for corporate borrowers, according to the results of Greenwich Associates European Corporate Finance Study.
Much more disruptive technology change ahead
London, March 2012
Countering assertions that technology innovation is slowing down, a report published today by the Economist Intelligence Unit argues that technology disruption in business will accelerate throughout the rest of this decade. Only 28% of executives in a survey conducted for the report believe, for example, that technology's positive impact on enterprise productivity has plateaued. The vast majority believe there is much more room for improving operating efficiency—which in turn will help sustain the impetus for business model change. Technology change is expected to be so rapid that four in ten executives fear their companies will not be able to keep up and will lose their competitive edge.
Oil & Politics - The Real Situation in Iraq
London, 9 March 2012
A delegation from the International Energy Agency spent two days in Baghdad speaking with high-ranking officials in preparation for an end-of-year report on the country's oil sector. By some estimates, Iraq could hold some of the largest oil reserves in the world and an international auction for oil and natural gas blocks is planned for May. Without a hydrocarbon law, and considering the fractured political system, the IEA's report may be more about political obstacles than oil potential, however.
The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns
London, 3 March 2012
Natural resources are the building blocks of the world, essential to progress and prosperity. These commodities, like all investments, can have wide price fluctuations over time. This Periodic Table from U.S. Global Investors shows the ebb and flow of commodity prices over the past decade and illustrates the principle of mean reversion — the concept that returns eventually move back towards their mean or average. The price movement of commodities is historically both seasonal and cyclical.
IOSCO makes recommendations on OTC derivative mandatory clearing
London, 29 February 2012
The Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions has published a Final Report on Requirements for Mandatory Clearing, which outlines recommendations that authorities should follow in establishing a mandatory clearing regime for standardised OTC derivatives in support of the G20’s Leaders Commitments to improve transparency, mitigate systemic risk and protect against market abuse in these markets.
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Stop bugging me about Gold
London, 24 February 2012
CMC Markets: No single asset has the capacity to polarise investor opinion other than the yellow metal. This has certainly been the case in the past four years since the global central banks turned on the monetary taps. Well respected analysts have been known to start frothing at the mouth when gold is mentioned as a haven for wealth preservation.
The high-wire regulatory balancing act
Washington, 23 February 2012
Statement, Open Meeting of the CFTC, Washington, DC: Commissioner Bart Chilton: This is our 24th meeting on Dodd/Frank Rules, and it’s not an illusion that, with each meeting and each new set of rules, the “regulatory balancing act” becomes trickier and the wire gets higher. You can take the analogy a bit further, and query how strong the “safety net” is—believe me, we are taking that into consideration as well, with each new regulation we consider.
NYSE Liffe: Commodity position limits
London, 16 February 2012
The NYSE Liffe has proposed a new regime for monitoring commodity contracts that would prevent deliveries on a scale seen in the past, as the global industry comes under growing political pressure to regulate markets. Key to the proposal are delivery limits, where a maximum position that may be taken to delivery in any individual month is set.
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