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Such a good comment. Thank you for providing that.


Yes - I can also imagine a female programmer not being comfortable when saying that.


I am in the same sock hell and have been for many years. I no longer believe that the sock pairing problem can be solved for me.


Maybe you can explain how you can help on these very very different topics/domains/names?


Holy sh*t. That list is outright insane. They should be allowed to retire and just drink cocktails or something. I would not be able to do a tenth of that even if would live 900 years. Amazing.


Holy sh*t. That is just beyond horrible. But it also shows how difficult it is to evaluate a stock. If a pension fund can't - then how should the average amateur investor do it.


What other banks have the same issue?


We will find out on Monday.


Likely plenty. Most of the smaller banks without sophisticated risk management likely haven't hedged against interest rate risk or adjusted their bond portfolios as interest rates rose. Unfortunately none of the regulatory frameworks even take interest rate risk into account, likely because of a 30 year bull run in bonds made everyone complacent to it. Generally speaking they only really monitor stress under a certain amount of bad debt (i.e failed loans) and risk level of assets held. T Bills get basically perfect zero risk score despite being heavily exposed to interest rate risk.


> none of the regulatory frameworks even take interest rate risk into account

This is false. The Fed’s stress tests and Basel III specifically measure duration.


They measure duration risk on short term assets but not long term assets like SVBs bonds which are (for better or worse) classified under different rules that allow them to be held to maturity without needing to account for mark-to-market losses for capital assessment purposes.

As a result stress tests which measure various interest rate scenarios, deposit withdrawals and increased bad debt ratios aren't overly affected by these long duration bonds.

That is all good and well as long as these assets truly are held to maturity and forced selling doesn't take place.

Then again, maybe it's fine. These tests are meant to ensure the banks can handle changing economic conditions. They aren't meant to be able to protect banks against a bank run of this scale.


Isn't that why 10 year bonds are much riskier?


> why 10 year bonds are much riskier

Yes, and why they yield more.


Wonder if anybody had seen it coming? And is about to do the next big short.


The US mortgage market in 2005-2008. It was considered a good investment to buy these bonds. But eventually everything chrashed.


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