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Market Risk – not to be ignored or neglected

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Fund managers, whether equity or bond traders, know very well that the returns are not simply the result of asset selection prowess. Many external factors come in. But what are the problems facing the professional money manager. Risk Management is one of the most important, and not all fund managers analyze their market risk. This is explained often a lack of education and inability to understand the solutions to mitigate the risk of compensation.

Market risk is defined as "the financial loss after an unexpected drop in the market due to events beyond their control. "Stock or bond investment market volatility or market may be the result of world events happening in the farthest corners of the globe. The better analysts and fund managers are simply not the resources to search and Crystal Ball to predict these events.

Examples of several major unexpected events that sent shock waves throughout the financial community were:

– 1982 Mexican peso devaluation;

– 1987 stock market crash known under the name "Black Monday";

– 1989 savings U.S. and loan crisis;

– 1998 the Russian ruble devaluation;

– 1998 125 billion collapse of hedge fund Long Term Capital Management;

– 2006 collapse of hedge fund Amaranth with losses of 5.85 billion U.S. dollars.

In 1994, JP Morgan has developed a risk model parameters known as Value at Risk or VaR. Although VaR is considered as the industry standard for measuring risk, has its drawbacks. VaR can measure the total risk exposure of funds in a certain level of confidence, usually 95 or 99 percent. What you can not do is predict when a trigger event occurs or amount of future benefits. For some businesses and money, a sharp decline or prolonged recession could have devastating effects. Even forcing companies not covered by the bankruptcy. A trigger event can have a domino effect forcing people to work and economies into recession actually more people out of work. No and no economy is immune.

If you invest in a mutual fund, it is likely that your background is not covered. Until recently, legislation preventing investment fund investment funds investment hedge. Many jurisdictions have repealed this rule, however, investment fund managers have been slow or decided to continue with "business as usual. The reason is that most investors in mutual funds are sophisticated and understand the process and can be estimated coverage back your money in a strategy investment do not understand.

Hedge funds, however have restrictions. Investors are more sophisticated and are more open to nature strategies of hedge funds. Some that are not revealed for fear of piracy by hedge fund competition.

mitigation solutions risks are complicated, but require the services of a professional that understands the process. It is the role of a Commodity Trading Advisor, also known as CTA. While most CTA managers of hedge funds portfolio which specializes in the analysis of some risk management. The objective of a risk manager is analysis solutions to reduce or eliminate the market and / or operational risk. Whatever the role, all consultants are specialists in Commodity Trading the derivatives market.

The first step is the value at risk calculation to determine the liability for risk funds. Risk mitigation strategy that known as a cover then applied. After all, the identification of risk and is only beneficial if a solution to offset this risk is introduced. coverage requires the use of derivatives, exchange traded or OTC. These can take many forms. The most commonly used are the instruments coverage index futures, interest rate futures, from Exchange, Exchange Traded Commodities such as crude oil, options and swaps.

An explanation more detailed discussion of derivative instruments and hedging will be addressed in our next article. Now that we have found an easy solution to their concerns risk market, implementing the right strategy can be as simple as a call to a trained counselor and licensed Commodity Trading.

About the Author

Dwayne Strocen is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor specializing in analyzing and hedging Market and Operational Risk using exchange traded and OTC derivatives. Website: http://www.genuineCTA.com .

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