Hr 4503 The Derivatives Safety And Soundness Supervision Act Of 1994 PDF Download

Excerpt from H. R. 4503, the Derivatives Safety and Soundness Supervision Act of 1994 Many financial institutions and consumers of derivative products have found them to be useful tools in managing and mitigating risk. If used properly, derivatives can help lower interest costs, which necessarily reflect perceptions of risk. But derivatives can, in general, only mitigate or eliminate some risk at the cost of creating other types of risk. The overall benefits of derivatives stem from the fact that the risks they create for the consumer of the derivative product are less dangerous or more acceptable than the risks they eliminate or miti gate. In the ideal case, every participant in the derivatives market ends u with a better profiled risk from his own point of View than would e attainable without the derivative instrument. Practice, of course, falls short of the ideal. The ideal requires that participants in a derivatives market fully understand the risk they would carry without derivatives and the different set of risks they would acquire with derivatives, and be able to evaluate this particular risk exchange reasonably well. Recent experience indicates that not all users of derivatives are able to assess these risks properly. It suggests they will need to promote better understanding of the derivatives market. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.