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I am Howard Lothrop host of Echo Partners TV. I'm here today to discuss with you a question
that I get, and sometimes don't get, from clients or prospective clients about asset
liability reports. Asset liability reporting is never done in a vacuum. Everybody has one,
because of the regulatory requirement. Why is it that when you look at the report from
one particular model and you compare it with a report from another model you might have
vastly different results? Well, the number one difference that you can make right now
to change the reported asset liability sensitivity of your bank is to change the way you model
your non-maturity deposit accounts. Non maturity deposit accounts are the most undefined aspect
of the asset liability report. Think about securities. They have stated maturities and
payment windows. Loans have stated maturities and amortizations and prepayment windows.
Same is true for CDs and FHLB advances. But the one item on your balance sheet you really
can't nail down that specifically are those nonmaturity deposits...Your transaction accounts
or your money markets and savings accounts. So here's my advice to you is if you look
at an asset liability report and you compare to what you're used to seeing and the numbers
are significantly different, the first thing you should look at are the assumptions, average
life assumptions particularly, with respect to the non-maturity deposit accounts. Typically
you'll see that the biggest difference there. that's important because today virtually every
asset liability model should do a high-quality job of reporting your interest rate risk sensitivities.
So it almost always comes down to the assumptions, and the non-maturity deposit account assumptions,
those are the most significant in your entire model. Get familiar with them, ask questions,
and let me know what you think. We'll see you on the next episode