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Back in mid 2007, when the credit crisis first started to unleash its trail of wreckage, everyone was using risk models that focused on market risks. All these models assumed Liquidity was always avai

The financial crisis has provoked a lot of naval gazing and blame in different proportions. One of the factors that got a lot of blame was “Value at Risk” or “VaR” for short. This statistical measure

What better way to protect the investor than for them to know that pricing and valuations are supplied by a third party, independent company?

The forgettably named ‘International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ or IOSCO has just released details of a new Template for gathering data on Hedge Funds from around the world with an aim to

Today is the day StatPro launches the “Private Beta” of its new product StatPro Revolution. The product is focused at the Front Office of asset managers, i.e. fund managers, salesmen, analysts, client

The entertaining political show where an audience gets to pose questions to a panel of politicians from different parties is normally amusing. Naturally enough these days most editions touch on the su

Following my last blog on people complaining about hedge funds shorting Greek bonds, the Economist expressed exactly my sentiments (though better of course) in their leader pages. How can you sell if

Last night I was watching Newsnight and Jeremy Paxman was interviewing a hedge fund manager who was shorting Greek government bonds and also the leader of the Danish socialist party. Naturally, the Da

It is not every day that the two largest providers of risk management systems and portfolio analysis to the Asset Management industry merge. Riskmetric’s revenue from risk sales is over $150 million a

I posted my thoughts on a weak, possibly W-shaped, recovery and its affect on asset managers only two weeks ago and it seems the news has suddenly gone all bad on the economy. The first tell-tale sign

Ignoring the headlines in the popular press, many people in the asset management industry are worried that we may well get a W-shaped recovery, where having briefly recovered from the near-death exper