A note on asset management and market risk

Bernd Scherer ()

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2010, vol. 24, issue 3, 309-320

Abstract: The textbook view on risk in asset management companies is summarized by Hull (Risk Management and Financial Institutions, p. 372, 2007 ): “For an asset manager the greatest risk is operational risk.” Using evidence from various panel regression models, we show that asset management revenues carry substantial market risks, a finding that challenges not only academic risk management literature on the predominance of operative risks, but also the current industry practice of not hedging market risks that are systematically built into the revenue-generation process. For asset management companies to return to an annuity model, these risks need to be managed more actively. Shareholders do not want to be exposed to market beta by investing in asset management companies; they want to participate in these companies’ alpha generation and take advantage of their fund-gathering expertise as financial intermediaries. Copyright Swiss Society for Financial Market Research 2010

Keywords: Asset management; Market risk; Panel regression; Corporate finance; G11; C33; G30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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