THE SYSTEMIC RISK CENTRE AT LSE
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Modern Sovereign Debt Risk Management: A Systemic Approach Dates: 2nd – 3rd October 2017 Venue: London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE
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Effective sovereign debt management requires achieving funding, risk, and cost objectives while often adapting to rapidly changing market circumstances. A key challenge then for sovereign debt managers is to establish and execute a strategy that meets the sovereign´s objectives in a way that is resilient to fluctuation in market sentiment and in other risk factors. This requires a holistic understanding of modern asset, liability and risk management frameworks where balance sheets are interwoven and where explicit and implicit guarantees affect the financing options. Furthermore, a deep understanding of sovereign debt management requires a solid knowledge of debt restructuring strategies as well as an appreciation of how regulation, banking crises, and politics relate to and complicate the task of keeping a consistent and predictable debt management programme. For investors and bank risk officers concerned with the measure of sovereign counterparty risk, this course will provide the instruments needed to evaluate different sovereign debt strategies, giving them the capacity to
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react and adapt their portfolios swiftly to changes in the market environment and to evaluate the sensitivity of their investments to different non-market risk factors. This course provides participants with the opportunity to rigorously analyse and investigate the most critical issues and challenges that emerge from public debt management and evaluate a sovereign’s vulnerability to international financial shocks. These issues and challenges, if poorly addressed and understood, threaten the capacity to maintain a consistent and sustainable debt management programme. Participants will in a short period of time develop a coherent approach for thinking about the many disparate aspects of effective sovereign debt management as well as gain new analytical, conceptual and practical (including simulations) tools for addressing factors that complicate debt sustainability in a rapidly changing global financial environment.
The course is led by Professor Jeffrey Chwieroth, Dr Jean-Pierre Zigrand and Dr JoĂŁo Moreira Rato.
Chwieroth is Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of International Relations and Research Associate in the Systemic Risk Centre at the LSE; Zigrand is Co-Director of the Systemic Risk Centre and Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance. Dr JoĂŁo Moreira Rato has led the Portuguese Debt Management Office in its successful return to the markets following the request for a Troika led assistance program. He is currently advising Oliver Wyman on the set up of a Middle Eastern Debt Management Office and he is a visiting professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Research Associate at the LSE Systemic Risk Centre. Over two days, participants will gain an authoritative overview of the critical frameworks, strategies, institutions, and dynamics that shape modern sovereign debt management.
SRC Executive Masterclass
Masterclass Benefits Discover a more holistic approach to a sovereign’s balance sheet. Build a workable sovereign balance sheet including the relevant assets and liabilities, especially when considering the specificities of natural resource rich countries. Understand the impact of contingent liabilities in a sovereign’s balance sheet and financing needs. Achieve a deep understanding of the risks implicit in public debt management and investment. Assess ways to measure the different risk factors in play in sovereign debt.
Master the trade-offs underlying a debt management strategy. Evaluate the sustainability of different alternative public debt strategies. Realise the importance of liquidity of secondary debt markets for sovereign debt management and its interaction with different primary markets mechanisms. Examine the extent to which particular instruments and strategies facilitate successful sovereign debt restructuring and resolution. Develop insight into how banking crises impact debt sustainability, and how unsustainable debt stocks may limit optimal resolution of financial stress.
This Masterclass takes a highly interactive approach that combines lectures, case studies, exercises, spreadsheet modelling, classroom discussion and group work.
SRC Executive Masterclass
THE SYSTEMIC RISK CENTRE AT LSE
This Masterclass is suitable for: Professionals in the areas of sovereign, corporate, capital markets, and international banking Financial market analysts, practitioners, and strategists Traders, asset and portfolio managers, especially debt and credit
Risk managers in financial and non-financial institutions Regulators, supervisors, and financial and economic policymakers Professionals in non-financial institutions seeking to advance their understanding of current risks and challenges facing the global financial system Consultants
Modern Sovereign Debt Risk Management: A Systemic Approach Course Fee: ÂŁ3,000 Enquiries: src@lse.ac.uk Registration:
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