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Risk Down Under

Risk Down Under We keep a wary eye on what is happening in the risk space globally especially in regulatory terms. Interesting to see that our Aussie brethren are rolling out comparable risk requirements to AIFMD – see here. The language and tone is remarkably similar. Now whilst this is a (second) draft (and […]

May 13, 2016, by administrator

Political Volatility

Statisticians and risk managers are pretty good at measuring things so long as they have underlying data. One of the things synonymous with financial markets is numbers – prices, positions, turnover, profits, volumes et cetera. Clever people can take this data and turn into all sorts of useful (and often not so useful) metrics […]

April 29, 2016, by administrator

Summer (apparently) 2016

Greetings – though its allegedly Summer outside its hard to tell with hailstones hammering down outside at the time of writing. Even by Irish standards the weather is mixed. Markets were “interesting” in the first quarter let’s say. If you went on a long vacation at Christmas and came back in early April you would […]

April 27, 2016, by administrator

All Aboard

We have been busy on-boarding some new clients in the past few months and one thing they seem to have in common is how easy they have found the process. There is a (not unreasonable) expectation that the process of linking their data to our risk engine would be complicated and take up a lot of […]

April 27, 2016, by administrator

Regulatory Focus on Risk

One thing has become very clear to us so far in 2016 – regulators are upping the focus on risk. We were at the Decherts conference in London in February and we listened carefully to Gareth Murphy give a speech. A quick word cloud of Gareth’s speech – see below – demonstrates that words […]

April 27, 2016, by administrator

Risk and ManCo's (Management Companies)

Interestingly the Tracker magazine published by IFI Global had the following to say about risk and management companies (ManCo’s): “There is a dearth of risk managers in the jurisdictions where ManCo platforms are based anyway. It is very difficult to find qualified people available to perform the risk oversight function on ManCo platforms (or indeed […]

April 27, 2016, by administrator

Virgin on the Ridiculous

RiskSystem is dedicated to helping investors and boards understand and manage their risks. We would be the first to admit you can’t get any reward without taking risk. Whilst we (modestly) consider ourselves experts on risk management we appreciate that we don’t have a monopoly on wisdom. So in that vein we thought we’d produce […]

April 27, 2016, by administrator

Remuneration Rules Under UCITS V

Member states have until 18 March 2016 to transpose UCITS V into national law. It is apparent that over time UCITs and AIFMD are set to converge and this is another part of that process[1]. For example the role of the depositary in terms of its functions, eligibility, duties and its liability has been clarified […]

September 17, 2015, by administrator

CP86 Update

The big news over the summer (at least in Ireland) was the release of the Central Banks feedback statement on CP86 – see here. This was intended to clarify the designated person’s role in terms of responsibility for managerial functions. In terms of risk management given the focus on clear segregation between the front office […]

September 17, 2015, by administrator

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