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A guide on risk for the hedge fund industry, this title includes a primer on hedge fund risk, and is illustrated with examples. It provides information for risk managers within various types of investment structures like investment banks and others. It is aimed at investment bankers, allocators, dealers, counterparties, prime brokers, and others.
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Virginia Reynolds Parker is the founder of Parker Global Strategies (PGS), a firm that specialises in custom designing and managing funds of hedge funds (FoHF) for institutional clients across the globe. Since 1995, PGS has designed over 20 multi-manager programmes and advised on over US$1.75 billion. PGS was among the first FoHF firms to apply risk management oversight to its funds. Virginia has expertise in traditional and alternative investment strategies, and a strong background in currency risk and returns, risk measurement and management of multi-manager hedge fund portfolios. She has developed industry-recognised performance benchmarks for foreign exchange. Her research is widely published and she is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. From 1988 until 1995, Virginia was managing director and director of research and risk management at Ferrell Capital Management. Previously, she was the CIO for a family office. Virginia earned an AB in economics and political science from Duke University. Virginia is an OPM graduate of Harvard Business School. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, Stamford Society of Security Analysts, International Association of Financial Engineers, a founding member and angel of "100 Women in Hedge Funds" and serves on the Board of The Foundation for Managed Derivatives Research.
A guide on risk for the hedge fund industry, this title includes a primer on hedge fund risk, and is illustrated with examples. It provides information for risk managers within various types of investment structures like investment banks and others. It is aimed at investment bankers, allocators, dealers, counterparties, prime brokers, and others.
About the Author
Virginia Reynolds Parker is the founder of Parker Global Strategies (PGS), a firm that specialises in custom designing and managing funds of hedge funds (FoHF) for institutional clients across the globe. Since 1995, PGS has designed over 20 multi-manager programmes and advised on over US$1.75 billion. PGS was among the first FoHF firms to apply risk management oversight to its funds. Virginia has expertise in traditional and alternative investment strategies, and a strong background in currency risk and returns, risk measurement and management of multi-manager hedge fund portfolios. She has developed industry-recognised performance benchmarks for foreign exchange. Her research is widely published and she is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. From 1988 until 1995, Virginia was managing director and director of research and risk management at Ferrell Capital Management. Previously, she was the CIO for a family office. Virginia earned an AB in economics and political science from Duke University. Virginia is an OPM graduate of Harvard Business School. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, Stamford Society of Security Analysts, International Association of Financial Engineers, a founding member and angel of "100 Women in Hedge Funds" and serves on the Board of The Foundation for Managed Derivatives Research.
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