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The best-laid plans ..

Strategic risk is recognised as a potential serious risk under Pillar II of Basel II. But isolating what strategic risk actually is, let alone how to quantify it, has caused some problems for risk managers. Bob Allen of the Australian Prudential…

Knowledge is power

Edhec's Noël Amenc and Mathieu Vaissié outline the information that investment firms' activity reports should contain if they are to measure and manage their risk effectively

From alpha to omega

It's all about higher moments. The kind where you decide what is really important about what you do and how you allocate your resources. Lionel Martellini presents the Edhec guide to hedge fund enlightenment

Built for performance

London's MPC Investors is looking at taking in at least an extra $600m for its latest European fund launch and is setting itself up as a direct destination for institutional allocators, as its CEO Peter Harrison told David Walker

Hi ho, Silver Street Capital!

When Gary Vaughan-Smith and Alex Da Costa rode off into the sunset from ABN Amro last summer, few doubted they would reappear - and now they have galloped back onto the scene by establishing Silver Street Capital in London. David Walker trotted along for…

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