Manage Your Client’s Risk and Perception Of It (Video)
We built Portfolio Crash Testing to help you get and keep clients. All advisors use PCT to visually demonstrate the risk profile, adjust loss level to the one that client...Read More
Financial Advisor Tools: How to Prepare Your Client For a ‘Perfect Storm’
Financial advisors must avoid ‘cookie cutter’ approaches and address each client’s unique situation. When it comes to risk, a financial advisor must consider not only the investment portfolio, but also...Read More
Stress Testing As a Distinction Between Clairvoyants and Risk Managers
Stress Testing As a Distinction Between Clairvoyants and Risk Managers Bill Graham, the father of value investing and the co-author of the infamous book Security Analysis, said: “The essence of...Read More
The One Reason Stress Testing is Vital to Financial Advisors
Stress testing is widely used by institutional investors. However, with recent advances in computing power this tool has become accessible to advisors as well. Stress testing allows the user to...Read More
What If Fed Tapers? How Does a Risk Manager Prepare?
In Part 2 the stress test of Fed tapering QE is discussed as a way to cover for shortcomings of risk models. Incorporating plausible macro scenarios is necessary to make...Read More
Why Sharpe Ratio And Other Traditional Stats Can’t Prepare You For What’s Coming
Are you thinking about interest rate risk and how it might interact with equity risk? If you are using risk models, beware, they can be lying. We can improve the...Read More