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View Article  Leading Risk Analytics Provider, Measurisk, Joins J.P. Morgan's Alternative Investment Services

J.P. Morgan's Investor Services announced today that leading risk analytics provider, Measurisk, LLC, has become an integral part of its alternative investment services.

Measurisk, which was previously affiliated with The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc., as Bear Measurisk, LLC, is a leader in providing institutional investors and asset managers with sophisticated risk transparency and risk measurement solutions, including value-at-risk, stress testing and position-based analytics, for multi-manager, multi-asset class, global portfolios.

Measurisk's independent, third party solutions address the risk analytics and reporting needs of fund of funds, pension plans, endowments, foundations and other institutional investors.

More then 1,000 hedge funds, representing over $650 billion in assets, provide data each month to Measurisk making it the leader in hedge fund risk solutions.

"The addition of Measurisk complements the already strong portfolio of fund administration and back office services that J.P. Morgan provides to hedge funds, fund of hedge funds and private equity funds ...   more »

View Article  Latest Derivatives Volumes Information from the BIS
Well - the latest market figures from the BIS are shown below. As you can see these seem to show that the derivatives market has been remarkably resilient during the second half of 2007 - overall volume growth has slowed, but still rose 15% during the period. The two figures that jumped out at me were the real decline in equity derivatives and the continued strength of the credit derivative - not surprising I guess given the prevailing conditions:


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