GRMA Principal, Sam Won comments on Cohen’s hedge fund launch/comeback in Business Insider. Steve Cohen, the billionaire who ran one of Wall Street’s most infamous hedge funds, is trying to stage a big comeback. Less than four years after his old firm pleaded guilty...

In the proverbial ‘beginning’, formal risk management – which entails not only measurement and reporting of risks, but, also, prudent management and governance of risks – was primarily only practiced by a select number of large global investment banks, such as JP...

Transparency in business bestows an aura of credibility and fidelity, whereas a lack of it breeds suspicion and lingering doubt – a notion the private equity (PE) industry is, or should be, well aware of. To be sure, the PE industry, composed as it is of a multitude...

Why telecoms deals fail: regulation tops the 2016 risk list Steven LevineDecember 15, 2016 Regulators internationally have dealt multiple blows to telecoms deals this year in continued demonstrations of national protectionism and an increased focus on competition...

On 13 October 2016, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final new rules for liquidity risk management and rule amendments to modernise reporting. These new rules and rule amendments represent significant changes to current liquidity management and...

In ACQ5 Magazine’s annual Hedge Fund Awards edition, GRMA was named the best “Investment Risk Management Firm” of the year for 2016.  This was the fourth consecutive year another leading investment publication has named GRMA as the best advisor for risk management....

Sam Won, Founder and Managing Director of Global Risk Management Advisors, on managing Brexit risks in investor portfolios. To listen to this audio interview on Bloomberg, please click here. (Interview starts at 5:08 on Bloomberg’s audio player) 

A combination of sweeping regulatory changes and pressure from large institutional investors has resulted in alternative asset managers providing more granular details about investment holdings and the associated market, credit and liquidity risks in their portfolios....

Hedge fund managers’ worry list has gotten longer. Aside from alpha and beta, competition and keeping clients satisfied, there is new urgency around compliance and regulatory risk. The latter issues have been simmering since the financial crisis and the Dodd-Frank...

Duration, options delta, gamma, vega. total monthly return and payoff profile. These are just a handful of the data points which mutual fund companies will be required to provide the US Securities and Exchange Commission if the regulatory agency finally adopts its new...