Archive for Author: klarity_user

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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Finvent in Greece runs «Race for the Cure»

ATHENS – October 1, 2019 – FINVENT, for the seventh consecutive year participated and sponsored the Race for the Cure® held in Athens, Greece, on Sunday September 29th, 2019, organized by the Hellenic Association of Women with Breast Cancer “Alma Zois”. This action constitutes part of Finvent’s Social Responsibility...

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Portfolio stress test IV: historical crises and risk management

March 14, 2019 – The fourth and final article in our ‘Portfolio Stress Test‘ series will discuss whether important historical crises can be used by investors to simulate the behavior of their portfolios, should certain factors be stressed to limits that occurred in past periods of extreme economic or market distress. A portfolio...

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Portfolio stress-test III: Credit rating and bond valuation

A holder of a portfolio of bond securities faces various risks that could drastically affect the price of the underlying holdings. The most prominent factor that could introduce such price variations is the Central Bank’s interest rate regime (as we addressed in our recent article «Portfolio Stress-Test II: Interest...

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