{"id":10764,"date":"2014-08-28T23:43:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T03:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=10764"},"modified":"2014-08-28T23:43:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T03:43:59","slug":"banks-hold-more-risk-than-before-gfc-chris-joye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/28\/banks-hold-more-risk-than-before-gfc-chris-joye\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks hold more risk than before GFC | Chris Joye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Joye explains why risk-weighted capital ratios used by Australia&#8217;s major banks are misleading and why true leverage is more than 20 times tier 1 capital.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was only after 2008 when regulators allowed the majors to slash risk-weightings on home loans from 50 per cent to 15 per cent today that we have seen their reported and purely academic tier one capital measured against these newly \u201crisk-weighted\u201d loan assets which shrunk in value spike from 6.7 per cent in December 2007 to 10.5 per cent in June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>By arbitrarily boosting the risk-free share of major bank home loans from 50 per cent to 85 per cent via the regulatory artifice that is a risk-weighting, one gets the fictional jump in their tier one capital that everyone believes is real.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"525\" height=\"339\" title=\"Tier 1 Capital to Gross Assets\" alt=\"Tier 1 Capital to Gross Assets\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.afr.com\/r\/AFR\/Blogs\/christopher_joye\/201408\/Images\/APRA3.png?resize=525%2C339\" \/>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/www.afr.com\/p\/blogs\/christopher_joye\/banks_hold_more_risk_than_before_EdNmpgmrkvtMPh54Ugh62H'>Banks hold more risk than before GFC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Joye explains why risk-weighted capital ratios used by Australia&#8217;s major banks are misleading and why true leverage is more than 20 times tier 1 capital. It was only after 2008 when regulators allowed the majors to slash risk-weightings on home loans from 50 per cent to 15 per cent today that we have seen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/28\/banks-hold-more-risk-than-before-gfc-chris-joye\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Banks hold more risk than before GFC | Chris Joye&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,31],"tags":[346,2090,2973],"class_list":["post-10764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-nz-countries-regions","category-the-fed-banks-interest-rates","tag-bank-capital-adequacy","tag-leverage-ratio","tag-risk-weighted-assets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Banks hold more risk than before GFC | Chris Joye - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banks hold more risk than before GFC | Chris Joye - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chris Joye explains why risk-weighted capital ratios used by Australia&#8217;s major banks are misleading and why true leverage is more than 20 times tier 1 capital. 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