This article wa written for the Autumn edition of my firm's quarterly newsletter, the ISChronicle

Introduction

As the dust begins to clear from the fallout following the detonation of the bombshell that has gone off in the financial markets this autumn, many investment managers will now be looking at themselves to see how best to operate in a slimmed down, potentially more volatile environment. Whether this is driven internally or forcibly by the regulatory authorities, it seems clear that Risk Management will once again be taking a front seat in everyone’s list of priorities for 2009. If we learn just one thing from the crisis – it is that firms on both the buy and sell sides ...   more »