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Published: 26th May 2011 by William Webster
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19th May 2011
Presentation: ALM Good Practices Seminar 18th May 2011
14th October 2009
Gap reports show you the interest rate risk you are running in your balance sheet. They put the assets and liabilities into time buckets in accordance with their interest rate repricing. From this simple approach you can obtain a table or graph of the risk being run. This normally includes a profit and loss figure that results from moving the yield curve. Gap limits are also applied in order to keep the interest rate exposure within risk tolerence. Gap reports aren't new; they are widely used and have both strengths and weaknesses. Let's find out more.
23rd January 2010
In a world where regulators are focusing on liquidity and capital it's easy to overlook market risk. In many firms this means interest rate exposure. In the UK with Bank Rate at an all time low it's tempting to think that hedging fixed rate assets is just a waste of money. After all why pay 3.25% on a 5 year swap when 3 month Libor is only 51 basis points? Surely matching the interest basis on assets and liabilities ends up costing you 274 bps doesn't it?