Entries by CMuser

Are Your Predictions Limiting Your Strategic Thinking?

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. — IBM president Thomas Watson, 1943. Apple is already dead. — Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft, 1997. Neither RedBox nor Netflix are even on the radar screen in terms of competition. It’s more Wal-Mart and Apple. — Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes, 2008. These […]

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OBSERVATIONS FROM ALM MODEL VALIDATIONS: DO DECAY RATES MATTER?

Yes. Decay rates do matter, but they are often not appropriately applied in the asset/liability management (ALM) process. Decay rates are essential for capturing the risk of evolving member behavior, namely deposit migration, as rates change. This blog will focus on using decay rates when simulating net economic value (NEV). Model validations typically reveal two […]