Systemic Risk
Recent market volatility has been driven by speculation about what the Fed will do next.
Simon Johnson considers systemic risk today and how we can counteract it.
Is 2020 the watershed year when the world begins to understand the concept of systemic risk in our interactions with the natural environment?
Do exchange-traded funds (ETFs) pose systemic risk? Or are such concerns exaggerated? A panel of experts weighed in.
Sir Paul Tucker is not shy about making an audience feel uncomfortable, Mark Harrison, CFA, observes. In fact, the crowd was rather ill at ease during Tucker's presentation at the 70th CFA Institute Annual Conference, and not just because the topic was systemic risk.
Markets are usually not systemic. Instead, from the bird’s-eye perspective of "Capitalism," many businesses are "opportunities" in the same way that it feels good to hit yourself in the head with a hammer: It's much better once you stop.
Even the most cursory study reveals that systemic risk means different things to different people, so Ron Rimkus, CFA, worked to create a definition that potentially everyone could agree on.
With so much talk of systemic risk in recent years, there is surprisingly little consensus on what systemic risk actually is. So what is systemic risk? And how big a threat does it pose to markets today?
Nobel laureate Robert Engle discussed systemic risk in China and throughout the globe. His advice for investors? Treat credit risk as an important part of the investment decision-making process.
All the recent market scares have been driven by the same implied menace. Whether it’s another round of anxiety about Greece, another head fake by the US Federal Reserve on raising rates, or fears about China’s economy, investors appear to be nervous about a major correction, downturn, or crash. But what if the real danger were of a very different sort?