Derivatives Quote by Kenneth Arrow

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

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

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

There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago instituted principles,…

— Kenneth Arrow

With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to…

— Ben Bernanke

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have…

— Alan Greenspan

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

— Paul Singer

I don't want to talk about the regulation of financial markets because that is not my sphere of expertise. It's a very complicated topic,…

— Martha Nussbaum

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

— Adam McKay

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

“The solutions to this systemic risk overhang are surprisingly straightforward. The immediate tasks would be to break up large banks and ban most derivatives.…

— James Rickards

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