Archive for Category: News

Unpredictability and Scenario Simulations in Financial Markets

Unpredictability and Scenario Simulations in Financial Markets Yannis Sardis, PhD   |   19th June 2023 «The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.« George Soros, Hungarian-American...

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Bank Debt: Investment Strategies and Technology Enablers

Bank Debt: Investment Strategies and Technology Enablers Yannis Sardis, 11 November 2021 Yet another unfortunate by-product of the massive reduction in global economic activity resulting from the (ever present) COVID-19 pandemic, has been the significant increase in the volumes of non-serviced bank debt, a trend that may be sustained...

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KlarityRisk Platform Crowned Winner in ‘Risk Monitoring & Management’ and Named Highly Commended in ‘Innovative Solution’ and ‘KYC Product’ at the Wealth Tech Asia Awards 2021

ATHENS, GR – October 1, 2021 – Finvent, the provider of integrated investment management software solutions, and sole regional distributor and custom engineering service provider of SS&C Advent Software since 2001, has been handed the honor of winning in ‘Risk Monitoring & Management’ category and named Highly Commended in...

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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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