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Risk Management for Investors
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Tanya Beder
SBCC Group
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| Tanya Beder
Tanya Beder founded and served as President of SBCC from 1987 to 1994, returning as Chairman in 2006. During the interim, Ms. Beder was CEO of Tribeca Global Management LLC, a $3 billion dollar multi-strategy fund with offices in New York, London and Singapore and Managing Director of Caxton Associates LLC, a $10 billion asset management firm in New York. At SBCC, Ms. Beder heads the global strategy, risk management, derivatives, workout and fund launch practices. Clients include banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds, insurance companies and corporations from around the world. Currently she assists numerous institutional investors, boards of directors, senior managers, legislators and regulators regarding the liquidity crisis, valuations and losses in the credit space (default swaps, CDOs, CLOs, CBOs, CDSs, ABCP and derivatives). She also served as President of Capital Market Risk Advisors and was a Vice President of The First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse) where she focused on mergers and acquisitions in London and New York and then on mortgage-backed securities, derivatives trading and fixed income research. |
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Richard Horwitz
Risk Fundamentals
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| Richard Horwitz is President of Risk Fundamentals LLC and a principal with Capital Markets Risk Advisors. He is the creator and architect of the Risk Fundamentals System. Mr. Horwitz was previously Managing Director of Risk Management and Due Diligence for Merrill Lynch's Hedge Fund Development and Management Group, where he implemented the Risk Fundamentals System. Before that, he was Senior Vice President and Director of Risk Management and Investment Analytics at Kenmar, a $3 billion fund of funds. He has worked as a buy-side Senior Equity Analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein and a consultant in financial services at Booz Allen and Hamilton. He earned a M.S. in Management (Sloan School) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Horwitz authored Hedge Fund Risk Fundamentals, Solving the Risk Management and Transparency Challenge, a book published by Bloomberg Press. |
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Barbara Lucas
Capital Market Risk Advisors
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| Barbara Lucas is a Principal at Capital Market Risk Advisors in New York City, a financial advisory firm specializing in risk management, risk diagnosis, financial forensics and risk governance. She is a pioneer in the derivatives business and has more than 25 years of experience in law, business and government. A former partner and chairperson of the banking department at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Ms. Lucas has represented major U.S. and foreign banks, broker-dealers, primary dealers, derivatives companies and hedge funds on a wide range of banking, securities, corporate, compliance and governance issues. Prior to joining Cadwalader, she was General Counsel to what was then known as Citicorp's Investment Bank. She also served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Enforcement and Director of its Office of Policy Review, as well as Special Counsel to the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance, in charge of its Corporate Governance Task Force and various regulatory initiatives, including actions culminating in passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Ms. Lucas received her undergraduate degree in English from Cornell University and her J.D. from the Washington College of Law at American University. |
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Wei Wu
Parker Global Strategies
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| Wei Wu is vice president of Parker Global Strategies, where he leads the Risk Management team. Prior to joining PGS, he was Risk Manager at Sailfish Capital Partners from 2005 until 2008. While there he constructed internal daily risk reporting systems, produced and analyzed various risk reports, and developed risk models. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Wu was the Manager of New York Network Operations at Antigenics Inc. He was System Administrator at Shelby Cullom Davis & Co from 1997 through 2000 and a senior systems consultant at Paragon Consultant Inc from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Wu graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics from Adelphi University. He received his MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University in 2003 with an emphasis in Finance and Information Systems. |
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Greg van Inwegen
Ivy Asset Management
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| Greg van Inwegen is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Risk Officer at Ivy Asset Management, where he has worked since 2004. He chairs the Investment Risk Management Committee and leads the Risk Management and Quantitative Research team at this Hedge Fund of Funds. His professional career started at Syracuse University, where he taught Finance as an Assistant Professor before moving to Wall St. joining PaineWebber as Vice President, Director of Quantitative Analysis in the Managed Account group. He then moved to Bankers Trust/Deutsche Asset Management where he was involved with a number of elements of the business, including quant stock selection models, asset allocation, enhanced index models and the development of a high frequency statistical arbitrage hedge fund, before moving on to a statistical arbitrage hedge fund start up, Vanco Research & Trading. He worked as Director of Research at Rydex Investments in product development before joining Ivy. He is on the board at the SQA and a member of the CQA, the IAFE and is a committee member at the Q group. Dr. van Inwegen holds several degrees, including a BS (’83) from the Haas School at the University of California at Berkeley; an SM in Management from the Sloan School at MIT; and a MS and Ph.D. in Finance from Wharton. |
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