Way to Reduce Risk in Global Financial Crisis

Liquidity crunch in global financial market, Long-termSecond, SPV issues notes to investor in capital
security food supply, disruptive supply chain andmarket, and securities offering are invested in high
energy security are main global risks that need to bequality securities and held in a collateral trust. Third,
resolved. To reduce risk effectively, risk assessment,investment returns are swapped by counterparties.
risk transfer and risk mitigation must be taken intoIn some transaction, principle and interest of the
account. The issue is how can we reduce the risk innotes maybe guaranteed. On the other hand,
global financial market and what action should beinsurance-link financial instrument is also used to
taken?transfer insurance risks, yet this method is used in
First, we need to assess and identify the risks sosome severe cases, exceptional or extreme weather
that we need to improve the understanding offor instance. Risk transfer is usually done by private
national risk exposures and indentify the clusters ofsector such as insurance company, bank or other
countries that are exposed to the same risks infinancial institution.
similar level. Then we can create a framework whichThird is risk mitigation which is required the
is compatible with the global approach taken ininvolvement and action by the government or public
previous risks. Individual countries might have theirsector. Government bodies should play 4 crucial
specific set of risks, and an aggregate risks measurefunctions. First, in addition to risk identification and
can be derived from the model's capability toassessment, government also manages the risk. To
integrate a wealth of data, account fordemonstrate, government can subsidize the gasoline
cross-correlations among risks, analyze specificprice or food price if the price of these commodities
vulnerabilities, and identify country clusters thatis so high. Besides, government also has to
engage in similar scenario to alleviate risk. Forcommunicate to mass carefully because it can make
example, United Kingdom set up the Civilthe situation worse especially some risks assessment
Contingencies Secretariat in 2001 to improve thethat need to be kept confidential. Mass media
effectiveness of post-crisis management, and tosometimes helps a lot if government can
identify and assess prospective risk to nationalcommunicate in a proper way, not to make people
resilience. Therefore UK has been improving theirscare and create chaos, but create the trust. Second,
consistency across governments concerning withgovernment must regulate the legislation to help
assessment, roles and responsibilities clarification andprevent the emergence of risks and protect the
basis for effective risk management.effect of risks. To illustrate, government can increase
Second is risk transfer by securitization,the interest rate in order to decrease the bank loan
insurance-linked securities, and insurance-linked financialin case of liquidity crunch. However, legislation
instrument. Securitization is the process of pooling risksometimes also can cause bad effect to investment
and dividing that pool into portions sold to wide rangeand economic growth so that we need to study
of investors on the secondary market. Thecarefully before we set up the rule and regulation. For
consequence will be a diversification of risk for insurerexample, Cambodia just released regulation that all
to an increase in the pool of capital available to coverconstructors need to reserve 2% of their total
insurance risk. Securitization grows more costexpenditure in any banks in Cambodia. As a result,
effective, insurer will be able to increasingly shareinvestors complained it harshly and threatened to
cost benefit. To illustrate, it shares one-third of thewithdraw their investment, thus this regulation must
US fixed income market. Other method isbe put aside; otherwise investors will run away. Third,
Insurance-linked securities which are able to fulfill thegovernment should boost economic continuity by
insurer capital requirement by diversifying theusing some specific measure such as the release of
increasingly broad set of risks. To cover somefinancial reserves or strategic energy reserve. A good
traditional peak risks like natural disaster, the price ofexample is America released their oil reserve when
catastrophe risk is considerably high so that thethe oil price reached the peak in 2008. Forth,
coverage is insufficient. Therefore, we need to linkgovernment must play a role of insurer of last resort
security covering catastrophe by issuing the bond orowing to build the trust and motivation for investor
note. For example, Hurricane Katrina or earthquake inand citizens.
Japan is traditional peak risk, so that we can issueIn brief, to reduce risk successfully both private and
"cat" bond to provide additional capital to thepublic sector must take the plunge. However, we
insurance industry. In "cat" bond process, at first, theneed to identify and assess the risk clearly so that
sponsor enters into a financial contract with a Specialwe can transfer and mitigate it in a proper way.
Purpose Vehicle such as bank or financial institution.