Ulrich Bindseil is Head of the Risk Management Division at the European Central Bank. Fernando Gonzalez is Principal Economist at the European Central Bank. Evangelos Tabakis is Deputy Head of the Risk Management Division at the European Central Bank.

Review of the hardback: 'How should public institutions - central banks in particular - approach investment and risk management? What should be similar to private asset management, and crucially, what should be different and why? Such important questions have received remarkably little attention. Against this background, Bindseil, González and Tabakis have produced a timely and authoritative guide to the state of the art, and a blueprint for moving forward. Their book will be of great interest not only in central banking, but in all of financial asset management - public and private, practitioner and academic.' Francis X. Diebold, Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania

• Foreword; Introduction; Part I. Investment Operations of Central Banks and Other Public Investors: 1. Central banks and other public institutions as financial investors U. Bindseil; 2. Strategic asset allocation for central banks and public investors K. Nyholm and M. Koivu; 3. Credit risk modeling for public institutions' bond portfolios H. van der Hoorn; 4. Risk control framework, limits, reporting, compliance monitoring, and other risk control functions A. Manzanares and H. Schwartzlose; 5. Performance measurement and attribution H. Bourquin, S. Hesselberg and R. Marton; Part II. Collaterised Lending Operations: 6. Credit risk taking in collaterised lending operations U. Bindseil and F. Papadia; 7. The collateral and credit risk mitigation frameworks of central banks E. Tabakis and B. Weller; 8. Risk mitigation measures and credit risk assessment in central bank policy operations F. González and P. Molitor; 9. Risk measures for a repo portfolio E. Heinle and M. Koivu; Part III. Organisational Issues and Operational Risk Management: 10. Organisational issues relating to the risk management function of public investors E. Tabakis; 11. Operational risk management in central banks J.-C. Sevet; Index.

Ulrich Bindseil is Head of the Risk Management Division at the European Central Bank. Fernando Gonzalez is Principal Economist at the European Central Bank. Evangelos Tabakis is Deputy Head of the Risk Management Division at the European Central Bank.

Review of the hardback: 'How should public institutions - central banks in particular - approach investment and risk management? What should be similar to private asset management, and crucially, what should be different and why? Such important questions have received remarkably little attention. Against this background, Bindseil, González and Tabakis have produced a timely and authoritative guide to the state of the art, and a blueprint for moving forward. Their book will be of great interest not only in central banking, but in all of financial asset management - public and private, practitioner and academic.' Francis X. Diebold, Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania

• Foreword; Introduction; Part I. Investment Operations of Central Banks and Other Public Investors: 1. Central banks and other public institutions as financial investors U. Bindseil; 2. Strategic asset allocation for central banks and public investors K. Nyholm and M. Koivu; 3. Credit risk modeling for public institutions' bond portfolios H. van der Hoorn; 4. Risk control framework, limits, reporting, compliance monitoring, and other risk control functions A. Manzanares and H. Schwartzlose; 5. Performance measurement and attribution H. Bourquin, S. Hesselberg and R. Marton; Part II. Collaterised Lending Operations: 6. Credit risk taking in collaterised lending operations U. Bindseil and F. Papadia; 7. The collateral and credit risk mitigation frameworks of central banks E. Tabakis and B. Weller; 8. Risk mitigation measures and credit risk assessment in central bank policy operations F. González and P. Molitor; 9. Risk measures for a repo portfolio E. Heinle and M. Koivu; Part III. Organisational Issues and Operational Risk Management: 10. Organisational issues relating to the risk management function of public investors E. Tabakis; 11. Operational risk management in central banks J.-C. Sevet; Index.

Ulrich Bindseil is Head of the Risk Management Division at the European Central Bank. Fernando Gonzalez is Principal Economist at the European Central Bank. Evangelos Tabakis is Deputy Head of the Risk Management Division at the European Central Bank.

Review of the hardback: 'How should public institutions - central banks in particular - approach investment and risk management? What should be similar to private asset management, and crucially, what should be different and why? Such important questions have received remarkably little attention. Against this background, Bindseil, González and Tabakis have produced a timely and authoritative guide to the state of the art, and a blueprint for moving forward. Their book will be of great interest not only in central banking, but in all of financial asset management - public and private, practitioner and academic.' Francis X. Diebold, Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania

• Foreword; Introduction; Part I. Investment Operations of Central Banks and Other Public Investors: 1. Central banks and other public institutions as financial investors U. Bindseil; 2. Strategic asset allocation for central banks and public investors K. Nyholm and M. Koivu; 3. Credit risk modeling for public institutions' bond portfolios H. van der Hoorn; 4. Risk control framework, limits, reporting, compliance monitoring, and other risk control functions A. Manzanares and H. Schwartzlose; 5. Performance measurement and attribution H. Bourquin, S. Hesselberg and R. Marton; Part II. Collaterised Lending Operations: 6. Credit risk taking in collaterised lending operations U. Bindseil and F. Papadia; 7. The collateral and credit risk mitigation frameworks of central banks E. Tabakis and B. Weller; 8. Risk mitigation measures and credit risk assessment in central bank policy operations F. González and P. Molitor; 9. Risk measures for a repo portfolio E. Heinle and M. Koivu; Part III. Organisational Issues and Operational Risk Management: 10. Organisational issues relating to the risk management function of public investors E. Tabakis; 11. Operational risk management in central banks J.-C. Sevet; Index.