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Is Risk Listing a Reliable Risk Management Practice?

Risk Management Guru

Risk management can be defined as the “process which aims to help organizations understand, evaluate and take action on all their risks with a view to increasing the probability of success and reducing the likelihood of failure” (Hopkin, 2010, p. Limitations of Risk Listing. Introduction.

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Why Portfolio Diversification is for the Ignorant Investor

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The Risk Management Guru (RMG) blog was founded in October 2015 with a very clear sense of purpose: to become the go-to blog for the best articles about Risk Management. Without you, this adventure would not be possible nor would the Risk Management Blog have its unique personality. Harper, 2006.

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

The Big Picture

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. And that led her to various jobs at Wasserstein Perella McKinsey’s Asset Management Group.

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Transcript: Armen Panossian

The Big Picture

I remember when I bought my first house in 2006, they, all I was asked was if I intended to repay the debt. So you have almost a doubling of the interest coupon paid by some of these businesses against the backdrop of c ovid 19 inflation and some of the economic pressures that come with, with those factors. Panossian ] 00:05:18 Yeah.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

And I would say that Washington was pretty interesting because we had gone and, and spoken to people in 2005, 2006, and to kind of let people know that there was something, these are, this is a trillion dollars worth of misprice risk. We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House.

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Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

In 2006, ’07, ’08, you saw the financial crisis. You see these things before they start to show up in the economic data. So we share themes and we share these economic signals. You want to be able to ensure that you’re bringing in best-in-class management that’s really perfectly aligned with you.

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Transcript: Ken Kencel

The Big Picture

So subsequent to that business at Indosuez, I launched my own firm in 2006, and this is now further into that bank consolidation dynamic. So obviously, risk managers, you know, and CROs were very focused on how do we manage that risk and diversify that credit risk that they were taking on in mid-market companies.

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