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Is Risk Listing a Reliable Risk Management Practice?

Risk Management Guru

Risk management can be defined as the “process which aims to help organizations understand, evaluate and take action on all their risks with a view to increasing the probability of success and reducing the likelihood of failure” (Hopkin, 2010, p. Limitations of Risk Listing. Introduction.

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What They Do.

The Better Letter

The now-defunct Bear Stearns won a noteworthy 2002 litigation involving former Fed Governor and then-Bear Chief Economist Wayne Angell over advice he and the firm gave to a Bear Stearns client named Count Henryk de Kwiatowski (really) after the Count lost hundreds of millions of dollars (really) following that advice (back story here ).

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Transcript: Michael Rockefeller

The Big Picture

I got an internship at a investment fund in Baltimore, and this was 2002 at the time. And, and our vision was to create an investment partnership like you’d find with a Wellington or a capital group with the risk management expertise of Citadel wrapped in a specialist structure at Woodline. 00:22:56 [Speaker Changed] Huh?

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

To give you a fun story, we launched Protégé Partners in 2002. And in 2002, the bucket of the largest hedge funds was those north of $1 billion. SEIDES: Before 2002, there were no capacity issues with whoever you thought the best hedge funds were. If you’re there a decade before, talk about first mover. Oh my goodness.

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Transcript: Tom Rampulla

The Big Picture

He is the managing director of Vanguard’s Financial Advisor Services Division, where he began back in 2002. They have a risk management technology. How do you guys think about risk management? We have a really good risk management tool as well. My special guest this week is Tom Rampulla.

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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

The Big Picture

Even the guy you think of so highly, you know, after three hedge funds open and close, you got to wonder if there’s some risk management issue there. MIELLE: — interviewed. But that’s the thing. RITHOLTZ: Yeah. I think if I recall correctly, there were some 600 bankrupt companies in one year.

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Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

And so, that didn’t happen until 2002. I mean, you know, this is probably 2002. We find great management teams. So we operate from a board level and really focus on key strategic and risk management variables. There’s some like risk management things that you always need to be mindful of.

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