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Systemic Risk, Pension Funds, Insurers, Asset Managers [4]

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Bullet points include: Politicians and regulators worry about systemic risk, because of: System-wide impact of the recent financial crisis, don’t want a repeat. Maybe worry that political revolutions have often been triggered by financial crises. Sceptical about extent of differences across financial sector regarding potential to create, amplify or transmit systemic risk. Problems during the Crisis included Lehman, other banks, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae But also AIG, monoline credit insurers, money market funds (MMFs) and shadow banking Further back in time: LTCM, HIH, Savings & Loans, fall-out from Great Depression

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