risk management

CLEARING & SETTLEMENT: a competitive disadvantage?

New central counterparties in Europe have brought the costs of clearing down. But a relentless price war could lead to greater complexity and lower...

RISK MANAGEMENT: Shooting down risk

In 2008 risk management failed. Nicholas Pratt talks to a fund management risk specialist and to consultants to find out what vendors must do...

BRANDS: Lessons in Humility

Financial firms have seen their brands reduced to tatters. Instead of hiding, asset managers must be courageous and visible and communicate their brands’ financial...

FUND SELECTION: an ongoing discussion

Fund selectors must focus more on the operational risk of their providers, due mainly to recent events, writes Niklas Tell... After running the Past Performance...

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: hard to get right

Multi-asset classes and funds of funds have made performance attribution more difficult. Lynn Strongin Dodds finds that advances have been made... Performance measurement and attribution...

ELECTRONIC TRADING: Sparks are flying

Nicholas Pratt looks at how competition is shaking up algorithmic trading and direct market access between older and new exchanges ... Alternative stock exchanges –...

EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: Gartmore goes forth

When hedge funds were born into the pension scheme world, Gartmore was there ... Gartmore's Jeff Meyer (pictured) and Phil Wagstaff talk to Nick...

WIDENING THE WEB: Credit Risk Agencies

Fund managers are under increasing pressure to identify credit risk, but are now choosing to rely less on traditional ratings agencies. Angele Spiteri Paris...

WHO’S NEXT in the string of collapses?

‘Just after the fall of Bear Stearns, the Statpro risk model signalled trouble at Lehman Brothers’, says Dario Cintioli (pictured) of Statpro ... The credit...

NORDICS: Alternatives – Back to the Starting Blocks

There were signs that alternative asset classes might finally take off in Scandinavia and Iceland. But the events of recent weeks could set the...

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