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About £5.5bn of the higher risk assets – 40% – are to be shed by 2018.
Permitted market-making activities cannot involve "high risk" assets or trading strategies.
"The combination of higher risk assets and risky funding represents a fundamentally flawed business model and a colossal failure of senior management and of the board," the 69-page report said.
Though as manager of the portfolio, UBS had the right to substitute assets, HSH claims that their mandate was to preserve the credit rating and the quality of the asset, rather than chase high-yielding but higher risk assets.
Regulators ban trades that result in a bank's exposure to "high risk" assets or trading strategies, but they declined to specify what constitutes "high risk," Raskin noted.
But even the Bank of England's own pension scheme is not switching to higher-risk assets.
"Banks might invest more in high-yielding, high-risk assets," said Ms. Rodríguez Valladares.
SIV-Lite vehicles tend to invest in high-reward, high-risk assets to make the short-term commercial paper they issue to fund their investment strategy more attractive.
Nationwide has declined to take ownership of the high-risk assets, such as self-certification mortgages made at the height of the housing boom.
The important thing to remember is that this exercise is conducted to identify, categorize, and prioritize high-risk assets; to assess vulnerabilities; and to make recommendations around risk.
In another section of the Volcker rule, lawmakers kindly left it to regulators to work out the meaning of "high-risk assets".
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