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Operational Risk #8: Reconciliation Gaps—A False Sense of Security

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Operational Risk #7: Amalgamated Assignments—Segregation of Duties

Operational Risk #6: Playbooks—Workflow Documentation

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

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?”

Debating Transparency and Valuation

Yesterday, theglasshammer.com hosted its second Women on the Buy-Side networking breakfast and panel discussion. Nicki Gilmour, founder and CEO of theglasshammer.com, began the event by explaining that the purpose of the gathering was to draw together top women in the investment management industry to discuss the topic of risk and its implications on performance for 2010. GilmourContinue reading “Debating Transparency and Valuation”