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CMRA announces successful settlement of last leg in Allianz Structured Alpha litigation

Thursday, September 08, 2022

Matthias Knab, Opalesque:

Capital Market Risk Advisors (CMRA) announced that its Institutional Investor clients successfully settled the last leg of their Allianz Structured Alpha litigation.

CMRA was the expert for several major institutional investors who collectively lost billions of dollars when the Structured Alpha hedge funds managed by Allianz Global Investors U.S. collapsed in March 2020. The cases filed by our clients were settled on confidential terms with the final settlement agreed to on 9/2/22. See SEC Cease-and-Desist order.

While the fraud involved is hopefully unique, CMRA said that the lessons to be learned re options trading strategies, volatility term structure, and risk management are extensive.

Capital Market Risk Advisors has been providing Risk Advisory and Litigation Support Services for over 30 years. Led by Leslie Rahl, CMRA's senior practitioners have been at the forefront of derivatives and risk management since the early 80's. The CMRA team consists of a group of senior professionals, each with decades of direct market experience, including includes trading, managing risk, working with regulators, and serving on boards as well as testimony in complex financial disputes in courts and arbitration in 4 countries, and serving clients on 6 continents.......................

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