4.7 WORLDWIDE DEFICIENCIES IN RISK MANAGEMENT
Poor risk management is succinctly summarised within the declaration issued by the G2019 at their summit held in Washington on 15 November 2008, aimed at restoring global growth. Item 3 of the declaration (listed under the heading “root causes of the current crisis”) is as follows (emphasis added): During a period of strong global growth,growing capital flows and prolonged stability earlier this decade,market participants sought higher yields without an adequate appreciation of the risks and failed to exercise proper due diligence. At the same time, weak underwriting standards, unsound risk management practices, increasingly complex and opaque financial products and consequent excessive leverage combined to create vulnerabilities in the system. Policy makers, regulators and supervisors, in some advanced countries, did not adequately appreciate and address the risks building up in financial markets, keep pace with financial innovation, or take into account the systematic ramifications of domestic regulatory actions.20 Apart from the perception of its negative impact on investment banks, poor risk management is considered to have led to the collapse of asset prices. As Andrew Haldane explained,21 by early 2009 world equity prices lost more than three-quarters of their gains during the Golden Decade,22 with bank share prices losing almost 60% of their value.In the faceofthesefalls risk management systems across all institutions were considered to have been woefully inadequate
4.7 WORLDWIDE DEFICIENCIES IN RISK MANAGEMENTPoor risk management is succinctly summarised within the declaration issued by the G2019 at their summit held in Washington on 15 November 2008, aimed at restoring global growth. Item 3 of the declaration (listed under the heading “root causes of the current crisis”) is as follows (emphasis added): During a period of strong global growth,growing capital flows and prolonged stability earlier this decade,market participants sought higher yields without an adequate appreciation of the risks and failed to exercise proper due diligence. At the same time, weak underwriting standards, unsound risk management practices, increasingly complex and opaque financial products and consequent excessive leverage combined to create vulnerabilities in the system. Policy makers, regulators and supervisors, in some advanced countries, did not adequately appreciate and address the risks building up in financial markets, keep pace with financial innovation, or take into account the systematic ramifications of domestic regulatory actions.20 Apart from the perception of its negative impact on investment banks, poor risk management is considered to have led to the collapse of asset prices. As Andrew Haldane explained,21 by early 2009 world equity prices lost more than three-quarters of their gains during the Golden Decade,22 with bank share prices losing almost 60% of their value.In the faceofthesefalls risk management systems across all institutions were considered to have been woefully inadequate
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