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The financial crisis has exposed Risk Management vulnerabilities on a variety of fronts, and risk tools have failed to adequately take into consideration the market changes. Management Companies, as well as self-managed SICAV’s have inevitably been impacted. How should they capture all risks and build an efficient Risk Management framework? |
Recent events have highlighted the importance of a Risk Management framework which is able to deal with risk types beyond those included within Basel II Pillar 1. In the light of the Pillar 2 requirements, financial institutions and investment firms are now obliged to strengthen their firmwide Risk Management, in order to foster the development of a robust risk and capital management process.
The financial turmoil shows how much the importance of liquidity management has been underestimated over the last years. This is why local and international efforts to put in place a much more robust liquidity risk management framework have taken a big stride over the last few months.