Posts Tagged ‘ risk ’

From strategies to style buckets: searching for weakness in the investment process

Currency Investor Autumn 2010 Whatever varying opinion you might get from investment managers, the one thing they will agree upon is that investment strategies have weaknesses. What they won’t agree on is which style has what weakness because that might undermine their own business, but you can be sure everyone can highlight flaws. What...

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Stupidity and negligence: do they explain Madoff’s risky business

Finance Week, 16/12/2008 Here we go again, ‘there shall be a weeping and gnashing of teeth’ heard globally as pension funds, charities and banks lament the loss of billions of pounds because Madoff was a crook. Sorry ‘alleged’ crook. While the Securities and Exchange Commission will certainly be puckering up because no matter how...

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Towards a comprehensive risk management strategy

Towards a comprehensive risk management strategy

Finance Week, 28/03/2008 Today the aim of risk management is not to eliminate it but to manage it; minimising adverse effects and maximizing opportunities. How does the finance director begin the process? Risk management is a rapidly developing responsibility for finance directors, although they are faced with a multiplying list of definitions and areas...

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Active Strategies – currency hedging that delivers smarter risk management

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Currency Investor, Active currency management is getting a new breath of life. As global economies lurch towards stagnation and the thermometer of equity markets...

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Performance analytics – helping to bring transparency to the FX pricing process

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Currency Investor For years, many professional currency practitioners have seen trustees’ and investment managers’ eyes glaze over when asked two questions: how much they...

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Middle East: regional E-forex perspective

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Gerry O’Kane looks at growth in e-FX throughout the Middle Eastern markets and how resistance to electronic systems is changing rapidly in the fast...

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Timing: – just how important is it for achieving currency alpha?

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Currency Investor, Winter 2010 Within the equities world there has been some discussion over whether market timing is a viable investment strategy or simply...

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