July 2024
4TH CULTURE IN ECONOMICS AND FINANCE CONFERENCE
Arkus is proud to sponsor the 4th Culture in Economics and Finance Conference 24 at the University of Trier in autumn this year.
The conference will bring together internationally leading researchers to present the most recent research results in the field of cultural differences and their impact on economics and finance. A topic of ever growing importance in a globalized world.
March 2024
LLB INVEST IMPLEMENTS RISKRADAR FROM ARKUS
With the successful implementation of RiskRadar into its risk reporting processes, LLB Invest Kapitalanlagegesellschaft from Vienna, Austria – a member of the Liechtensteinische Landesbank Group – has strengthened and enhanced its risk monitoring capacities with Arkus FS ́ highly functional and operationally efficient risk management tool.
April 2023
NEW FEATURES IN RISKRADAR
The latest release of RiskRadar features the next tools to enhance user interactivity. Users can now create their own rules for liquidity risk scoring or overwrite individual scores with a specific value. Futhermore the newly designed position page enables our clients to use Excel-like slide and dicing techniques to quickly and flexibly analyse their portfolios.
Februar 2023
AIFMD ANNEX IV REPORTING
Arkus has successfully rolled out the first client on its newly developed full AIFMD Annex IV reporting. With this new functionality Arkus is now the position to offer market participants the full AIFMD Annex IV reporting alongside the regular risk reporting of the other risk types.
OUR LIQUIDITY RISK REPORTING SOLUTION – ESMA GUIDELINES 2020
Industry regulators and independent bodies have continuously stressed the importance of investment funds embracing a robust liquidity risk management framework and policy, not only to conform to the respective guidelines but to ensure industry best practises are adopted.
At Arkus, we have worked on providing a cost-effective liquidity risk reporting solution through our online risk monitoring platform, RiskRadar.
ALFI EUROPEAN RISK MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE
Arkus Financial Services would like to thank ALFI – Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry, for hosting yesterday yet another great European Risk Management Conference. We were delighted to not only sponsor the event but partake in it, with our Chief Risk Officer Mr. Martin Ewen sharing his views alongside a panel of risk management experts and professionals on the practical considerations of liquidity risk modeling and stress testing.
RISKRADAR, YOUR ONLINE RISK MONITORING PLATFORM.
An interactive online platform that manages and monitors portfolio risk for a variety of UCITS/AIF fund structures and investment strategies.
Regularly involved in leading Fund Industry events across Europe.
At Arkus, we continually participate in some of the leading Asset Management events in Europe, speaking and hosting panels on areas surrounding our expertise field, Risk Management.
- Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI)
- Association Luxembourgeoise de Risk Management (ALRIM)
- Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs (ILA)
News & Articles
Soaring geopolitical tensions after the Russian attack on Ukraine resulted in a stir-up in markets. The war in eastern Europe has prompted many countries to impose restrictions and sanctions over Russian, consequently markets reacted vigorously and the selloff among the riskier asset classes didn`t take long.
Despite optimism from the UK Government that Coronavirus and its variants have now reached their peak, the rest of Europe do not share the same buoyancy, with record cases across Germany, France and Denmark, the World Health Organisation have issued a warning to world leaders that Coronavirus pandemic “is nowhere near over”.
Among other drivers, the startling rise in household energy bills, which includes 18% in gas and 28% in electricity, have elevated the UK inflation rate to 4.2%, which is more than double the Bank of England’s target.
Equity markets remain unimpressed by persistent global supply chain issues, rising energy prices and the FED signaling a potential end to tapering. Looking at the still unresolved tension between the US, China, and Russia, further distress might be on the way. Some equity volatility is starting to creep up, while index levels remain close to ATHS.
Markets are still flying high on the central banks and government support pushing valuation higher and higher. However, as inflationary pressure keeps rising and geopolitical tensions between China and the US continue to linger un-resolved, there may soon be an end to the party.
Tensions between the US and China intensify after accusations of misled policies on China were brought up by Chinese officials during a visit of US Deputy Secretary of State in the country. This adds to a series of problems between the two countries stalling hopes for a normalization under new president Biden.
The leading economies seem to be slowly continuing their recovery while Inflation expectations keep rising both in the US and Eurozone. This induced some pressure in fixed income markets and also equities seem to be taking a breather after their rally this year. Let´s see if the summer brings sunshine or rain.
Despite central banks claiming for an only temporary phenomenon inflation expectations and yields continue to rise. This and further mutants of the coronavirus along with mixed success across countries in their vaccination campaigns did not impress equity markets much which continued to rally.
Equity markets took a breather as bond yields started to crawl upwards across the board. Raw materials (particularly Brent) climbed on hopes for a sustainable recovery and the distant possibility of returning to full economic activity.
Better be the hunter than the prey – Retail online investors collude to form a swarm that successfully squeezed out some of the big shorts in the industry. The rebellion was shut down as neobrokers (Reddit, Robin Hood etc.) restricted trading due to systemic concerns. After some cash outs were made by a few members of the swarm the assets concerned reverted to usual levels.
It did not take long for the new year to shape up as nasty as the last one. The rat race between vaccinations and the coronavirus (and unfortunately also its mutated siblings) has begun while the president of the US incites his supporters to storm the Capitol after all his attempts to challenge the election results failed for a lag of substance. Oh boy!
Markets rallied strongly in the wake of vaccine hopes. Most European countries still have re-instated lockdown measures before the Christmas break to dampen the second wave of the pandemic. Once again this is accompanied by huge fiscal support and dovish central banks.
#Europe is back in lockdown mode as infections surged exponentially while the oldest democracy in the world has struggled to find a new president leaving the country more divided than ever. So more than enough fuel to spur #volatilities up recently.
Given this and upcoming US elections, Brexit limbo and rising tensions between the EU and Russia it is not surprising that equity markets took a timeout from their rally and were slightly down this month.
At Arkus, we provide an extensive report that allows to screen for potential liquidity risks stemming from both the asset and the liability side of the monitored portfolio either in current market conditions or under stressed scenarios and at different time horizons.
Infection rates are rising again in most countries, some call it the second wave, yet markets did not seem to care too much and continued their rally. Most equities are now back at pre-crises levels or even higher.
The EU is drifting into a debt union, accessing capital markets for the first time in its history to finance a huge stimulus package for (and from) its member states. EU realized volatilities fell sharply into their medium regimes while such a move could not be observed for implied volatilities.
Launch of the ESMA supervisory exercise in relation to the ESRB Recommendation on Liquidity Risk in Investment Funds.
Most volatilities increased, settling in mixed regimes. Volatility in most of the equity market increased while mixed trends have been observed for commodities…click below to read more.
National Competent Authorities to which these Guidelines apply must notify the EU regulator whether they comply or intend to comply with the Guidelines, within two months of the date of publication by ESMA of the Guidelines in all EU official languages.
Equity markets continued their recovery fueled by (even more) Central Bank money and fiscal impulses from governments. As for most companies’ earnings outlooks remain grim the P/E gap is widening, and the rally still seems to be merely based on expectations of a catch-up.
ESMA has published updated reporting instructions to be used for reporting under the Money Market Fund Regulation (MMFR).
The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) addresses liquidity risk concerns regarding investment funds that have significant exposures to corporate debt and real estate assets.expectations of a catch-up.
EU’s securities market regulator, has published today a supervisory briefing on the supervision by NCAs on the costs applicable to UCITS and AIF’s.
If the ever-increasing sovereign debt levels and also potentially a rise in corporate/retail defaults persists, it might induce further systemic risk and the pressure on the banks might darken the picture again. Even though most asset classes are still in their high regimes, markets seem to anticipate a short-lasting economic impact.
Regulators across Europe are asking asset managers for reams of new information about their ability to meet investor redemptions as they seek to stave off a liquidity crunch sparked by the coronavirus market sell-off.
Markets turned into crisis mode as the Corona-virus and oil price turmoil’s spurred fears of a global recession that sent markets south with a speed that we haven´t seen in decades.
EU’s securities market regulator launches a common supervisory action with national competent authorities on the supervision of UCITS’ manager’s liquidity risk management across the European Union (EU).
Following the decisive election victory for the conservatives, we try to take an informed look into what 2020 might entail for the asset management sector in the UK and across Europe.
Luxembourg regulator publishes Circular CSSF 19/733 for liquidity risk management for open-ended undertakings for collective investment (UCIs).
AMIC and EFAMA update their report on Managing fund liquidity risk in Europe. the report articulates four specific recommendations.
Recently, Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, said that “investment funds have a structural mismatch between the frequency with which they offer redemption’s and the time it would take them to liquidate their assets, magnifying market adjustments and triggering further redemptions”. Click here.
Markets started the year lighter as the outbreak of the Corona-virus and the impact on global production chains added to the list of concerns about the global economy. Equity volatility (and vovos) were picking up. Brexit finally happened on paper, but the agreed transitory period is still ongoing, so the blur continues.
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