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Sovereign wealth funds

Sovereign wealth funds

An in-depth look at the state-owned sovereign wealth funds that dominate the attention of the world's financial markets

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FX moves to centre stage

May 2004

Banks fail to weigh the costs of credit risk





Credit provision is once again becoming a dangerous game. Tight bond spreads on high-grade, high-yield or emerging-markets paper are one obvious warning sign that investors? desperate chase for yield has overcome any sensible discrimination about underlying credit risk. But the clearest indication that institutions have failed to learn from the last recession and credit crunch is in the syndicated loan market.

Just two years ago many of the so-called retail, or, to use a more pejorative term, stuffee banks were pulling out of the syndicated loan market or significantly scaling back their commitments.

Loan and credit losses had scared them. Even though this was precisely when the banks should have been able to extract a much better return on their risk, structural absurdities prevented them from achieving this. The face-value terms...


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