Roundtable briefing on the current financial crisis
On Friday 31 October, four members of London Business School's finance faculty supported the student's Investment Management Club in a roundtable briefing to discuss the current financial crisis
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Professor Julian Franks started the briefing with a look at a case study, a hedge fund with a large stake in a bank that so far, has done relatively well during the crisis. Listen to Professor Franks' podcast
Professor Viral Acharya gave a presentation on bank equity, in which he said that banks have become increasingly opaque, a result to a large extent, of the off-balance-sheet transactions that were set up primarily to game regulatory capital requirements. Listen to Professor Acharya's podacst
Professor Elroy Dimson provided a historical perspective on the financial crisis, examining the volatility over the last 22 years but also looking further back to 1900 when there were earlier periods of volatility in both the UK and US. Listen to Professor Dimson's podcast
Finally, Professor Christopher Hennessy gave his views on the misuse of ‘more hazard' as a buzz word in today's media and how it is often used with no reference to what it is and how to deal with it. Listen to Professor Hennessy's podcast