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Risk management is a value-added function, not a compliance function. This talk describes how the risk manager and the risk taker work together to manage risk for increased value. A talk given July 19, 2013.
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How to Learn to Love your Risk ManagerBarry SchachterGloria-Mundi, LLC
For presentation at the Drobny Macro Summer School
July 18, 2013
Evolution of a Risk Manager
PhD (Econ) Prof.
Regulator
Sell-Side Risk Guy
1987
1994
1997
1998
2000
2007
HF CRO
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My Philosophy
Help you make more
money Help you take more
(good) risk
Philosophy at Work
InformationAnalysisDialogue
The 10 Risk Management Principles
Only take risks you like
Avoid unexplainable price action
Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong
Liquidity is a fickle friend
Exiting is the best hedge
Risk regimes change
Diversification is about factors not positions
Don’t be dogmatic about your views
Risk limits are your friend
You are the (best) risk manager
Risk Information: If You Don’t Understand It Don’t Use It
VaR: what’s it good for? absolutely…
Tool of convenience
Highly subjective
Uses Yardstick
relationshipsforecast
Data sensitive
VaR is Not the Most You Can Lose
Your Choice: Risk Mumbo-Jumbo or Risk Analysis
Use Marginal Risk to Build Better Portfolios
The insidious risk: liquidity
Crowded tradesHerdingContagion
Trading desk can help
Data Dependence Impact
Scenario Stress Testing:Worst Cases
Can’t find Black Swans this way
Reverse Stress Testing:How (not) to Lose $1MM (or more)
Hedges
Neutralize unwanted risk
Protect against gapping
Systemic risk management
Dialogue: relying on trust and partnership
Question assumptions
Provide a sounding board, give feedback
Be a coach
Cognitive Biases: when you are your own worst enemy
Confirmation biasAvailability biasRecency biasHindsight biasOverconfidence bias
P&L Attribution
What risk factors are driving P&L?
Do the risks and P&L line up?
What tendencies appear over time?
The Ultimate Risk Manager is You