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Hedge-fund risk managers in the spotlight

By Simon Osborne | 14 November 2008
Keywords: hedge funds

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The credit crunch is forcing a new mindset on hedge funds about how to fix the nuts and bolts of risk management.

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The credit crunch is a ‘once in a decade event’. It is ‘a death by a thousand cuts’. Those are just two examples of the way that hedge-fund risk managers visualise this prolonged period of trauma; somehow ‘dislocation in the credit markets’ doesn’t quite suffice.

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