Archive for Year: 2020

Active and Passive Investing: Allies, not Adversaries

Active and Passive Investing: Allies, not Adversaries Yannis Sardis, 30 October 2020 ‘The difficulty lies not in the new ideas but in escaping from the old ones.’ John Maynard Keynes, Economist Extraordinaire The Debate A massive amount of academic research, practitioner surveys and media coverage has been dedicated...

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Fallen Angels and Bond Risk Management

Fallen Angels and Bond Risk Management Yannis Sardis, 28 September 2020 “In the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our survival.” Norbert Wiener, American Mathematician and Philosopher (1894-1964) Bond portfolios face various risks that could...

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KlarityRisk Best Risk Management platform shortlisted at the HFM European Technology Awards 2020

Athens, GR – July 8, 2020. KlarityRisk, an award-winning Risk Analytics and Risk Management platform by Finvent Software, has been shortlisted for the 2020 HFM European Technology Awards in the category of “Best risk management solution”.    The Awards give recognition to IT, software vendors and service providers that have showed excellent service and innovative product development over the past 12 months.   ...

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On the Uncertainty and Instability of Financial Markets

June 29, 2020 Yannis Sardis Extreme market events are evidently more frequent than commonly thought of, therefore their effects on portfolio performance should be diligently risk-adjusted by investors in order to create defensive portfolio re-balancing action scenarios for a wide spectrum of unexpected shocks. «Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you...

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H1’2020 KlarityRisk Platform Updates

Focusing on Performance, Technology, Reporting & User Experience June 23, 2020 KlarityRisk today announces a new release of its investment analytics platform. “KlarityRisk 20.1 includes a palette of functional and technological enhancements, which in conjunction with its new fully configurable User Interface, allows the user to utilize the full...

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Historical Knowledge and Decision Quality in Finance

15 April 2020 ‘Prediction is very difficult, especially if it is about the future’ – Niels Bohr, Danish Physicist, Nobel Laureate 1922 Although N. Bohr’s quote meant to address a seminar question about his prediction of the influence of Quantum Physics on the world in the future, it sets...

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Market Corrections: It’s not only the size that matters

5 March 2020 – As global markets dramatically displayed in late February, the lack of a risk-adjusted investment positioning process can be quite costly to money managers and individual investors alike. During the week of February 24th, the S&P500 equity index fell by 11.5%: this was its biggest weekly drop since...

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KlarityRisk Shortlisted for the WealthBriefing European Awards 2020

London – February 11th, 2020 – KlarityRisk, a fast growing, award-winning Risk Analytics and Regulatory Risk Reporting Software provider, has been shortlisted for the WealthBriefing European Awards 2020 in the below categories: Risk management Compliance Innovative Client Solution Winning a WealthBriefing European Award sets organisations and individuals...

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Channel Partnership for KlarityRisk and FactSet

London – 3 February 2020 – KlarityRisk Ltd, a fast growing, award-winning Risk Analytics and Regulatory Risk Reporting Software provider, announces partnership with FactSet, a leading provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications. The channel partnership aims to provide expanded Data access to both KlarityRisk and FactSet clients...

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