Eumaeus Guide, 2nd Edition

Eumaeus is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of our equity release valuation report, THE EUMAEUS GUIDE TO EQUITY RELEASE VALUATION Restating the Case for a Market Consistent Approach.

The new edition involves some simplification and tidying up, including: a simpler treatment of volatility estimation; a simpler treatment of the Market Consistent approach reflecting our more recent work on option pricing (of which more later); a brief discussion of Professor Mario Wüthrich’s 2011 European Actuarial Journal article on market consistent valuation; and a discussion of the IFoA Equity Release Working Party’s magnificently flawed approach (“A Discussion Note on the Economic Valuation of Equity Release Mortgages as Part of the PRA’s Effective Value Test”) to the PRA’s Principle III (“The present value of deferred possession of a property should be less than the value of immediate possession”).

As always, we thank the many people who have contributed to it.

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Can UK Banks Pass the COVID-19 Stress Test?

Source: Positive Money

Eumaeus is pleased to release our report Can UK Banks Pass the COVID-19 Stress Test? on the dire state of the UK banking system.

In his final remarks as Governor, Mark Carney reiterated the same upbeat message that he has always given, that the UK banking system is superstrong:

Some watching will recall the financial crisis a little more than a decade ago. Then, the financial system was the core of the problem. Now, it can be part of the solution.

Over the past decade, the UK financial system has been transformed. We didn’t build this strength for its own sake.

This is prudence with a purpose.

Resilience with a reason.

Deputy governor Sam Woods said much the same to the Treasury Committee on Wednesday April 15th:

We go into this with a well capitalised banking sector.

We don’t think so. Our report explains why.

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