by Sam Won (Excerpted from comments Sam Won made speaking at HedgeWorld’s 2011 Fall Fund Services Conference on Oct. 26.) If you are going to try to raise capital from institutional investors or seeders this year or next, you only get one chance to make your first...

by Chris Clair Sam Won, founder and managing director of Global Risk Management Advisors, Inc., spoke at HedgeWorld’s Oct. 26 Fall Fund Services Conference on how recent events at UBS and market volatility have combined to give investors fresh reasons to focus on risk...

by Sam Won (Excerpted from comments Sam Won made speaking at HedgeWorld’s 2011 Fall Fund Services Conference on Oct. 26.) Too often there is a significant gap between what some hedge fund managers believe to be risk management and what sophisticated, risk...

by Sam Won (Excerpted from comments Sam Won made speaking at HedgeWorld’s 2011 Fall Fund Services Conference on Oct. 26, 2011) Unfortunately, the third quarter has made your life tougher for both managing your portfolio and for raising assets. There are two reasons...

by Samuel Won Published under Newsletters of AICPA March 17, 2011 The famed investor, Warren Buffett, said, “You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” After the financial crisis in 2008, unfortunately, many investors in both large and small...

by Samuel K. Won Family offices were not spared during these financial meltdowns, and many suffered significant financial losses as a result of inadequate or a complete lack of risk management. Only a select few family offices employed risk defeasance measures to...