Overview

Learn how leading investment firms are embracing risk management as an important source of competitive advantage. Join us on February 5th to learn how advanced risk management platforms are being used to generate value by:

• Improving investment returns
• Stress testing and evaluating portfolio and position sensitivity
• Efficiently managing capital and collateral
• Providing confidence to investors and shareholders
• Performing model validation on proprietary and 3rd party models
• Viewing meaningful aggregated risk measures across the enterprise

Peyman Mestchian of Chartis Research will discuss the latest findings from new buy-side and sell-side reports and what to expect in 2015.

Speakers

James Church, VP of Product and R&D, FINCAD
James Church has more than 15 years of software industry experience and is responsible for the strategic direction and development of all FINCAD products. Church was previously Vice President of OLAP product management at Business Objects and, before that, Director of OLAP product management at Crystal Decisions. He studied Computer Science at North Staffordshire University in the U.K.

Peyman Mestchian, Managing Partner, Chartis
Peyman Mestchian is Managing Partner at Chartis overseeing research strategy, key commercial relationships and advisory services. His special area of interest and research is the application of information technology to risk management, and he is an established thought-leader and writer on the subject. Previously, Peyman was a Director of the Business Risk Consulting Practice at Ernst & Young and Global Head of the Enterprise Risk Management Practice at SAS Institute. Peyman is a Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management (FIRM).