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Softbank To Acquire Fortress Investment Group For $3.3B

It was recently announced that Softbank would acquire Fortress – the large alternatives manager – for $3.3bn. The acquisition of the $70bn AUM behemoth is certainly interesting from a number of angles. Do the management of Softbank feel Fortress is simply an undervalued asset and with some patience it can extract a higher value, or […]

February 20, 2017, by administrator

UK Dual Funds Regime

A recent paper published by the New City Initiative (NCI) proposes that the UK government set up a dual funds regime to help asset managers deal with many of these worst case scenarios of Brexit. “A dual funds regime would allow UK managers with EU interests to continue to comply with EU laws and […]

February 20, 2017, by administrator

Credit Suisse and RiskSystem Join Forces

We are delighted to announce that Credit Suisse Asset Management in Zurich has chosen RiskSystem to provide daily risk reporting and investment restriction monitoring for the €500m Luxembourg domiciled Credit Suisse (LUX) Absolute Return Bond Fund. Max Gnesi, Director of Credit Suisse commented “Credit Suisse had a specific requirement for an independent third-party risk-management provider. […]

February 20, 2017, by administrator

Risk / Data Analyst Positions

RiskSystem: We provide comprehensive and innovative financial risk management and data services to the global funds industry via a proprietary cloud based platform. The company was formed in 2013, currently has 7 employees, 5 full time, 2 part time and works with ~ 40 funds across Europe and North America. The company’s prime focus is […]

January 20, 2017, by administrator

The Risk Management Function – Questions To Ask

A few month ago a journalist asked us to come up with some questions relevant to the risk management function for an article he was writing. In light of the Central Bank of Ireland’s recent letter “Thematic Review of Risk function” (available here) we thought it might be timely to reproduce the list below: Questions the […]

December 8, 2016, by administrator

The SEC and Liquidity Risk

In October the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted liquidity rules1 for mutual funds and ETFs to allow fund boards, the SEC and investors to “better monitor liquidity risks” in those investing vehicles and to “modernize and enhance liquidity risk management”. Whilst the Investment Company Act provides for a seven day settlement period to repay investors […]

November 22, 2016, by administrator

Risk : The Next Five Years

Below we have reproduced an article in the September issue of the NED magazine – ned-sept-2016-risk-article-2 Perhaps the most important current development in alternative fund governance is in what is happening at fund board level on risk. Traditionally boards have had little to no proper information on risk at all. Most boards might get […]

October 13, 2016, by administrator

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Softbank To Acquire Fortress Investment Group For $3.3B

UK Dual Funds Regime

Credit Suisse and RiskSystem Join Forces

From SMIC to ManCo

Risk / Data Analyst Positions

The Risk Management Function – Questions To Ask

The SEC and Liquidity Risk

Risk : The Next Five Years

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Share Class Hedging Using RiskSystem

Softbank To Acquire Fortress Investment Group For $3.3B

UK Dual Funds Regime

Credit Suisse and RiskSystem Join Forces

From SMIC to ManCo

Risk / Data Analyst Positions

The Risk Management Function – Questions To Ask

The SEC and Liquidity Risk

Risk : The Next Five Years

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