August 2014 ezine

Welcome to our latest newsletter.
So finally the day has arrived – AIFMD is finally here. After several years of anticipation and a year’s transitional grace the dash to meet the application deadline is over. Now enforcement begins! We have written a handy top five tips to meet AIFMD risk compliance – view it here.
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You can read our latest blog contribution to COOConnect and the latest list of AFIM’s here

Current Observations and Musings
We have been thinking about the future of risk management a lot recently – no surprises why. Our view is that risk management is now on a par with portfolio management in the eyes of the regulator. It is obvious from reading the AIFMD regulations that risk management is now enshrined in legislation. Read more here

SVB – Cautionary tale or just plain dumb?

It is a bit of a truism, possibly wrong, that disasters are very good learning experiences. As such, it behooves us to consider the case of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). It was the 17th largest bank in the US before it went spectacularly bust in a very very short time. Normally in financial markets, the […]

April 4, 2023, by administrator

Poly-crisis? What poly-crisis?

Apologies in advance, a bit of a rant this time round. That being said, alluding to the classic Supertramp album in the title surely gives me some sort of leeway. Anyhoo, when it comes to the subject of poly-crises, I come not to praise them, but to bury them. Grey / No -haired folk like […]

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023, by administrator

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Firstly, a very Happy New Year. From a risk management perspective, we are sort of at the eye of the storm. The major geopolitical risks are largely obvious, but their potential impacts are less so. The China Covid risk is the outlier however in the information dead-zone that is China, perhaps the market’s ability to […]

January 7, 2023, by administrator

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