risk management

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

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

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

In 2005, the Danish pension scheme ATP started to build its own hedge funds. Success means the number of teams...

The focus on counterparty risk in the OTC derivatives market is starting to gain importance after the Bear Stearns episode,...

Hans Hufschmid (pictured), formerly at doomed hedge fund LTCM and now CEO of GlobeOp, tells Nick Fitzpatrick (editor of Funds...

The Irish regulator’s decision to allow physical shorting through Ucits has been suspended pending a review by the European Commission....

Fund launches in the first quarter of the year reflect an effort by the industry to provide diversification and alpha....

The credit crunch is biting ever deeper into the fund management industry. Fiona Rintoul looks at what managers must do...

RAB Capital has hired Gary Pitts to be its chief compliance officer. Pitts joins from Brevan Howard Asset Management, where...