Clarus Risk to feature at national risk management seminar

Max Hilton, CFA, Managing Director of local risk management firm Clarus Risk has been invited to speak at an event in London jointly organised by the Chartered Financial Analyst Society of the UK (CFA UK) and the Investment Management Association (IMA). The seminar entitled Understanding and Managing Risk in Investment Management, takes place on December 6th 2013.

Max Hilton, CFA, Managing Director of local risk management firm Clarus Risk has been invited to speak at an event in London jointly organised by the Chartered Financial Analyst Society of the UK (CFA UK) and the Investment Management Association (IMA). The seminar entitled Understanding and Managing Risk in Investment Management, takes place on December 6^th 2013.

Max joins a prestigious line up of speakers and will be one of three contributors to the panel discussion, which will consider the challenges and opportunities in developing effective risk management and how to build a culture which ensures that risk management is well defined, effective and embedded within a business.

Other presentations will look at a range of issues including the implementation of efficient portfolio risk management and the challenges of managing business and operational risks following the global financial crisis.

Max is looking forward to playing his part in the event:

“The CFA designation is widely recognised as the gold standard within the global investment industry and it is very positive that a local firm has been invited to represent the CFA UK in this joint event with the IMA.

Risk management is a rapidly evolving discipline that features high on the agenda of regulators and investors globally. This seminar provides an opportunity to combine the leading professional bodies within investment and operational risk and to consider some of the key risk issues currently facing the investment industry.”

Other speakers include Yoram Lustig, Head of Multi-Asset Investments UK, and Deputy Global Head of Multi-Asset Investments at AXA Investment Managers; Georgina Turnbull, Head of Central Risk at M&G Investments; Neil Duncan, Senior Manager Operational Risk at Jupiter Asset Management; Nick Samouilhan, Fund Manager at Aviva Investors.