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Operational Risk #7: Amalgamated Assignments—Segregation of Duties

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Operational Risk #6: Playbooks—Workflow Documentation

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

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

Top 10 Areas of Operational Risk for the Buy Side

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?”

Signs of Maturity

During her opening remarks as chairperson of FTF News’ 3rd Annual Hedge Fund Operations and Technology Conference in New York, Holly Miller, partner at Stone House Consulting, discussed critical signs of maturity that hedge fund managers will need to demonstrate to regulators. Wall Street & Technology highlighted them in their May 2010 cover story. PleaseContinue reading “Signs of Maturity”