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Operational Risk #5: Naïve Reliance on Technology—The Downside of Automation

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Operational Risk #4: Dropped Batons—Hand-offs

Operational Risk #3: Novices, Apprentices and Soloists—Inadequate Training or Cross-Training

Operational Risk #2: The Blind Leading the Blind—Overextended and Underqualified Managers

#1 Operational Risk: Complacency—Trivializing and Disregarding Risks

Fixes for Algo Trading Glitches Come from Within

Stone House partner Holly Miller discusses improved controls that can help prevent trading algorithm problems like the one that Deutsche Bank experienced on the Osaka Stock Exchange in June, for which the bank’s wrists were slapped this week. See the article in WatersTechnology’s Sell Side Technology magazine.

Top 10 Areas of Operational Risk for the Buy Side

Philip Lawton, Leading Performance Expert, Joins Stone House Consulting

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, 20 JULY 2010 – THORNTON, PA Stone House Consulting, LLC announced that Philip Lawton, formerly head of the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM®) program at CFA Institute, has joined the firm as a partner. Holly Miller, founding partner of Stone House Consulting, said, “Investment managers and hedge funds that excelContinue reading “Philip Lawton, Leading Performance Expert, Joins Stone House Consulting”

Are You Making the Most of Your Technology?

Proper systems implementations always require a complete review of the relevant operational workflows. Likewise, effective systems training will focus on those same workflows. Yet all too often, investment management firms pay inadequate attention to designing and optimizing their operational flows and fail to harness the full capabilities of expensive, best-in-class applications. These days, when itContinue reading “Are You Making the Most of Your Technology?”

Stone House Consulting and Investit Partner to Offer Strategic Benchmarking and Consulting Services to Traditional and Alternative Investment Managers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, 1 JUNE 2010 – NEW YORK AND LONDON Stone House Consulting, LLC and Investit Ltd today announced a strategic partnership to provide traditional and alternative investment managers with a suite of consultancy services, industry research, best-practice benchmarking and self-assessment tools. These products and services are designed to help managers gather assetsContinue reading “Stone House Consulting and Investit Partner to Offer Strategic Benchmarking and Consulting Services to Traditional and Alternative Investment Managers”