What are the techniques of asset liability management?

Answer 1

Asset Liability management is a very broad field targeting risk management, which includes assessment of various types of risk the current assets and the forthcoming liabilities are exposed to. This is of major importance to the banking and financial service industry. There are a number of risk management consulting firms that research and work in this field. They provide various optimization tools and software and risk assessment models, which assist in the asset-liability management process. You can get more details about the software and their role in asset-liability management on the websites of the risk management consultants like www.optiriskindia.com.

There are no black and white answers to this question. Everything lies in the grey area and is still under research. There are various asset optimization and portfolio management models that can help and form a part of the asset liability management technique. In general an ALM technique involves defining of risk and return relative to liability portfolio. The key to asset liability management lies in the ability to design an asset portfolio that depends on the risk to which the investor is exposed i.e. to devise a portfolio perfectly correlated with the future liabilities of the investor.