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An investment strategy’s ability to manage risk significantly decreases downturns and in an of itself will increase gains.
Active risk management is a critical function within CARL strategies. CARL’s K2 strategy manager, Alan Harmer, returns to the show to share his experience and perspective on risk management and real world examples of how he has seen it pay off.
Episode Highlights
- What does risk management mean for K2
- How important is risk management to professional investors and why this matters to regular investors
- What a risky market looks like with examples
- Where Alan has seen risk control pay off with real world examples
- The traditional approach taken with stocks and bonds vs quant hedge funds and what it means for regular investors
OUR GUEST
Alan Harmer
Alan Harmer has a background in economics, mathematics and finance. His groundings were in fundamental equity analysis as head of research and director of strategy for Prudential Securities, as consulting strategist at Smith New Court and doing independent expert reports for the corporate areas of a number of investment banks.
Alan’s background is in economics, mathematics and finance. His groundings were in fundamental equity analysis as head of research (Melbourne) and director of strategy (New York) for Prudential Securities, as consulting strategist at Smith New Court (London) and doing independent expert reports for the corporate areas of a number of investment banks.
He has senior managerial experience in managing international equities in a number of investment centres; Prudential (New York), Credit Agricole (Paris), Macquarie (Sydney), Maxxim (Melbourne), BSF and Al Rajhi (Riyadh) and Kappa Forte (Mauritius/Mumbai).
OUR HOST
Jamie Uppenberg
Jamie has 15+ years in digital payments, banking and financial services software development. She’s held several executive management positions in digital product software delivery, working various digital payment projects with big tech such as Apple and Google. Jamie brings extensive compliance, regulatory and KYC product and process management.
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