Rethinking Risk Management for Investment Decision Makers

Due to increasingly rigid regulation established to stabilize the financial services industry, risk management has become one of the keys to both compliance and financial success. However, outmoded systems and strategies for risk management cannot be counted on to overcome present financial challenges.  Only by introducing leading edge risk mitigation tools and more successfully integrating risk management into the asset management process can risk managers generate enhanced returns and fortify their value proposition within the greater financial services framework.

This panel-based event highlights the risk management needs of asset managers, which most conferences marginalize in favor of the needs of banks.  Case studies from over 20 distinguished speakers and panelists provide actionable approaches for mastering the evolving regulatory landscape and adopting bankable risk mitigation systems. Day Two lasers-in on liquidity risk mitigation, including liquidity risk assessment processes and applying best practices from leading banks.

Keynote Speakers:

Rick Funston is a principal with Deloitte & Touche LLP and the principal author of Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating The Risk Intelligent Enterprise™.

Mr. Funston created the concept of risk intelligence for both value creation and value protection. He works with Boards of Directors and senior executives on means to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of governance, risk and compliance processes.

With more than 30 years of experience, he has served a wide cross-section of Fortune 1000 companies and global industries including aerospace, automotive, financial services, energy and utilities, consumer business, high tech, telecom and the public sector. His client engagements are at the board and senior executive level. Working with Deloittes regional leaders both internationally and domestically, Funston is responsible for developing and supporting the deployment of risk assessment and ERM services to the firms global client base. He is also an accomplished speaker, author, and media spokesperson.

Phil Duff launched Duff Capital Advisors in March 2008. Duff Capital Advisors is a new enterprise that is creating a platform to provide new business propositions across asset management, liability solutions and retirement schemes—the next generation investment management company. Duff Capital Advisors will provide institutional clients integrated portfolio solutions to fund and manage long-tail liabilities. Phil is also Chairman of White Oak Global Advisors, a firm which services the financial needs of middle market companies. White Oak invests institutional capital by making senior secured loans to growing small enterprises.

Phil was Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of FrontPoint Partners LLC. FrontPoint Partners was founded in 2000 and was sold to Morgan Stanley in December 2006. At the time of its sale, FrontPoint Partners was an integrated investment management firm managing over $7 billion in client assets in single manager and multi-strategy vehicles offering an institutional-quality platform for incorporating non-correlated investment strategies into large asset portfolios.

Prior to FrontPoint, Phil was formerly Chief Operating Officer and Senior Managing Director of Tiger Management, where he served as a member of Tiger's Management Committee and Advisory Board. Prior to joining Tiger, Phil worked for much of his career at Morgan Stanley. Phil was the Chief Financial Officer of Morgan Stanley and served on the firm's Management Committee. Phil served as President and CEO of Van Kampen American Capital, a $70 billion mutual fund company which was acquired by Morgan Stanley, and had previously headed Morgan Stanley's Financial Institutions Group in Investment Banking. Phil began his career as a grain trader for Louis Dreyfus Corporation.

Phil currently serves on the corporate boards of Ambac Financial Group, RiskMetrics Group, Black Diamond Equipment Ltd., and Solar Power Corporation. He also serves on the non-profit boards of MIT Sloan and the Seven Bridges Foundation. He previously served on the Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation, the Managed Funds Association and Greenwich Academy (including as Chairman). Phil received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Harvard College and a Master of Business Administration from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Phil resides with his wife and three children in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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