Investment Performance Risk Understanding and Evaluating Includes Detailed of Leverage

• OVERVIEW

All investors and firms managing money or providing investment advice are subject to investment performance risk. Investment performance risk is the result of the performance of an investment portfolio or investment product being substandard or perceived to be substandard and the party managing the portfolio or providing the investment product is subjected to claims by the investing party. The result of such claims can expose the defending party to a variety of different consequences.  Investment performance being substandard or being perceived to being substandard can be the result of a variety of factors. Understanding what can negatively impact the performance of an investment portfolio or investment product in terms of absolute return or relative return is the first step in managing investment performance risk. The second step is having risk management process that provides for an ongoing evaluation of these factors so as to avoid any factor having a negative impact on investment performance.  

 

 

• LEARNING OBJECTIVES

 

To provide an in depth understanding of the investment performance risk and an examination that addresses:

• How it may exist
• The type of risk consequences that can result from actual or perceived substandard investment performance
• How actual or perceived substandard investment performance can manifest itself 
• Management practices that eliminate or modify the occurrence of investment performance risk issues 
• To serve as a basis for constructing or re evaluating investment management policies and procedures

 

• WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND

Investment performance has been the source of numerous client complaints and settlements over the years. With proper management practices many could have been avoided. This presentation provides the participants with an understanding of the nature of investment performance risk, an examination of the factors that can generate a poor investment performance or the perception of a poor performance and the management practices to be employed that address these factors as well as place the performance of a portfolio or investment product in proper perspective. This presentation should be beneficial to anyone managing investment portfolios, creating investment product, introducing portfolio management services or investment product to investors, having risk management oversight of investment activities and senior management responsibilities of a business with investment activities.

• AREAS COVERED
• Understanding Investment Performance Risk and its Management

                Provide a conceptual framework for addressing the nature of investment performance risk

                Placing investment performance in a proper perspective 

• Consequences  of Investment Performance  Risk

                Identify the manner by investment performance can produce a variety of risk manifestations

• Elements and Conditions Impacting Investment Performance

                Review of the investment factors that can negatively impact investment performance

                Review the nature of investment management and investor relationships

                Review the understanding of a targeted investment performance

• Investment Performance Management “Best Practices”

               Display a variety of investment manage practices that address the effective management of investment performance risk

• WHO WILL BENEFIT?

 

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all personnel with responsibility for: 

• Investors 
• Managers of an investment management business 
• Investment managers
• Creators of investment product
• Client relationship managers
• Risk management within an investment management business
• Compliance within an investment management business
• Auditing of an investment management businesses
• Regulatory oversight of investment management businesses
• Educational programs at the University level

 

 

• SPEAKER

 

Robert Geary is the founder of Greenwich Risk Management Advisory Services "LLC" and services as the principal consultant on many of the firm's consultancy mandates.
Robert has been a banking and finance industry professional for 43 years with 34 years serving in a variety of senior Treasury, financial market, asset management and risk management roles at JP Morgan Chase & Co. For the last 6 years of his career with JP Morgan Chase, Robert had undertaken risk management oversight roles that have included Head of Market, Credit and Operational Risk Management for Chase Asset Management and being Managing Director of Fiduciary Risk Management for the Corporation.