Derivatives Quote by Ben Bernanke

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those…

— Alan Greenspan

People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk.

— Fred Ehrsam

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning…

— Alan Greenspan

In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

— Warren Buffett

From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an…

— John L. Casti

What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including end-users, including…

— Paul Singer

In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The…

— John Lanchester

I am not really inclined to think there is any very effective regulation of the derivative securities markets that would be useful. People who…

— Kenneth Arrow

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

— James Rickards

A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up or down.…

— Michael Hudson

The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The…

— James Chanos

Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.

— Paul Singer