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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.

The following article first appeared in the September 2008 edition of AsianInvestor magazine. Each month we offer online a feature from the magazine. To subscribe for more in-depth industry analysis that you can’t find on our website, please send an e-mail to: stephen.tang@asianinvestor.net.

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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