Commercial Bank Investment Management Manual

Author: Leonard Matz
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Managing your bank’s investment portfolio entails much more than just finding good investments. You also have to factor in economic and interest rate forecasts, regulatory requirements, and how your investment strategy works with the bank’s overall strategy and goals.

This two-volume manual helps you use the best ideas, techniques, and methods to make your investment portfolio really pay off. It gives you practical advice and ideas from experts who have made it work in banks like yours. The 15 chapters in this easy-to-read manual cover it all; from the role your bank's board of director's should play to detailed descriptions of specific investment instruments. There are guidelines for organizing the investment function, step-by-step procedures for automating the investment function, a summary of the regulatory and accounting requirements you need to keep in mind, including the fair value rules, and proven policies and procedures for your investment portfolio activities. You get guidance on all this:

How to use economic and interest rate forecasts
Strategies for a rising interest rate environment
Legal and regulatory requirements
An easy-to-use reference summary of the instruments you bank can use, how each is traded, what the maturity is, the trading basis, and liquidity
Organizing the investment function
Developing an investment policy statement
Money market instruments
U.S. Treasury and federal agency securities
Mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed securities
Other capital market instruments
Using futures, options, and swaps to improve investment performance
Using economics in interest rate forecasts
Major market participants’ influence on investment performance
Developing and implementing an investment strategy
Investment pitfalls
Securities investments: legal and regulatory requirements
Accounting for securities
Automating the investment function
Bank investment portfolio trends and analysis
Peer group data analyzing investment portfolio trends at every U.S. bank.

About the Author

Leonard Matz, consultant and bank trainer, has been in the banking industry since he became a federal bank examiner in 1973. He has spent more than 15 years in banking as a senior manager, including serving as senior vice president for investments and funds management at the largest subsidiary of Michigan National Corporation. He was chairman of the Risk Conferences on Liquidity in 1999 and 2002, has lectured at the Graduate School of Banking at Madison, Wisconsin, and has been a member of the National Asset/Liability Management Association since 1989. Mr. Matz is the author or coauthor of numerous financial publications published by Sheshunoff including Liquidity Risk Management, Self-Paced Asset/Liability Training, as well as numerous magazine and journal articles.