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Market volatility: Reminder to prepare for downturns

SEI

We are currently experiencing one of the most volatile times in decades, on top of the start of the pandemic and the 2008-2009 recession. That’s why, when facing market volatility, stewards of long-term assets held at all types of nonprofit institutions recognize the importance of a well-thought-out investment process. .

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

Elizabeth Burton : I think it’s because I went into risk management straight out school on the risk side of fund to funds and, and various other industries. So, so let’s talk a little bit about risk management. We actually have a budget for risk management and technology and tools.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

And then I moved back to London at the end of 2008, which was a really interesting pivot. At the end of 2008, we owned a lot of illiquid assets. And there was a problem with 168 of them at the end of 2008. It was the year I made partner, actually, in 2008. I did that for a couple of years. SALISBURY: Absolutely.

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Is Managed Futures The Next Iomega?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

It's tough to see on the chart but the stock got a take- under offer in 2008 for less than $4/share. A popular strategy dropping 95% is far less likely, probably impossible, than a popular stock but something, not sure what, could cause managed futures to severely underwhelm the way MLPs and REITs did during the financial crisis.

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Fear Not

The Better Letter

In late 2008, Dent published another book, The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History , moving into the “doom and gloom” business. who became a professor at the University of Michigan before setting up his own asset management firm. He missed this one, too.

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Transcript: Robert Koenigsberger

The Big Picture

Go back right after 2008, every bank made markets. KOENIGSBERGER: What I really like is on top of these four return streams that we have, we kind of have a multi-asset, dynamic asset allocation process. And you know, he had this checklist mentality, which looks a lot like risk management, right?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

My family and I moved to McLean, Virginia in, in 2008. So we were down the street and we were in a pretty interesting situation because we were the, we were one of the biggest, if not the only investment bank specializing in the core risk that the nation was facing. They’re asset allocation model driven folks.

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