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Risk Management: Provider of `Glass Box` risk management solutions FinAnalytica opens London office, hires new MD, secures $5m investment

Friday, March 28, 2008

Benedicte Gravrand, Geneva: Marc Gross told Opalesque that on March 1st, he joined FinAnalytica as Managing Director and opened FinAnalytica’s London office at 1 Berkeley Street in Mayfair. Marc was previously UK Regional Director at Riskdata.

Glass Box, not Black Box FinAnalytica is the leading provider of “Glass Box” risk management solutions based on “post modern” portfolio theory, serving Fund of hedge funds, hedge funds and other institutional investors. FinAnalytica specializes in fat tailed and skewed asset return distributions and their implications for risk management, portfolio construction and option pricing. Unlike “Black Box” solutions, each underlying calculation and modelling assumption is completely transparent and meticulously documented. Calculation methods can be fully controlled by the user and dynamically back-tested to achieve the best forward looking risk estimates…

Cognity FinAnalytica has developed Cognity, a comprehensive, integrated multi-user suite of risk based software applications to support the entire investment process.

FinAnalytica announced last week that New Europe Venture Equity (NEVEQ) had invested US$5m in the firm. The announcement followed a period of accelerated growth during which the company had focused its Cognity platform on returns-based portfolio analysis for funds of hedge funds and other multi-manager investment firms. The investment wi......................

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