WEBINAR REPLAY: Asset Management Trends: Robust Risk Management

Watch this recorded webinar to learn about some of the most important issues and concerns for those charged with implementing market risk management in buy-side firms including:

  • The three pillars of risk management
  • Understanding the features of downside and tail risk
  • How factor models help managers to interpret risk results
  • Risk Management techniques – hedging and diversification
  • How best to estimate correlations across asset classes

Our Experience Productivity Alpha webinar series looks at the different trends that are shaping the asset management industry and ways in which a firm’s operations can contribute to alpha. In this webinar, we focus on risk management:

Join Laurence Wormald, SunGard’s head of buy-side risk research, as he presents the latest research and insights on the new generation of risk models and how they can be used to improve the robustness of risk management for institutional managers.

Every new investment opportunity brings with it a series of new risks. It is vital to be able to assess the systematic risk factors within new asset classes, and to use portfolio stress testing to create risk forecasts that capture the effects of those systematic factors.

Just as important is the mitigation of operational risk through effective integration of risk systems with your portfolio management and accounting systems.


THE PANELISTS:

Dr. Laurence Womald: Head of Buy-Side Risk Research, SunGard

Laurence Wormald was appointed as SunGard’s Head of Buy-Side Risk Research in July 2008. In his position Laurence oversees a risk research team in London which helps to support more than 200 institutional clients.

Before joining SunGard, Laurence was for two years the chief risk officer at a proprietary trading unit of Deutsche Bank Global Markets in London. Dr. Wormald had previously held a number of risk director and research director positions at various financial modeling firms including StatPro and BITA Risk. He has also acted as a consultant to major financial and government institutions including the Monetary Analysis Area at the Bank of England and the Research Directorate-General at the ECB.

Dr. Wormald is currently chair of the City Associates Board at the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents at the University of Essex and serves on the Prize Committee of Inquire UK. He has contributed several academic papers and book chapters on risk and quantitative finance.

Tony Warren
Tony Warren: Vice President, SunGard Asset Arena
Tony Warren, vice president, SunGard Asset Arena, and Global Product Manager has more than 20 years of experience in investment management operations. Mr. Warren’s industry experience and expertise spans many aspects of investment management operations, including front-, back- and middle-office operations and asset management, specializing in fund accounting and asset servicing operations.

Mr. Warren joined SunGard in 1993 and has been integral in developing SunGard Institutional Asset Management’s solutions for investment operations in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. Based in London, Mr. Warren is responsible for the global product management of SunGard’s Asset Arena Investment Accounting. Prior to SunGard, Mr. Warren held leadership positions at Prolific Asset Management and Royal Life in London.

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