Market Risk Not To Be Ignored or Overlooked

The first of a two part article.
Fund managers, whether they be equity or bond traders, know all too well that returns are not simply a result of their asset selection prowess. Many external factors come into play. But what are the issues facing the professional money manager.

Commodity Trading Advisor, Genuine Trading Solutions of Toronto, find not all fund managers analyze their market risk. The company explains this is often due to a lack of education and a failure to understand the mitigating solutions for off-setting risk.

Genuine Trading Solutions President, Dwayne Strocen explains market risk as the unexpected financial loss following a market decline due to events out of your control. He goes on to explain that stock or bond market volatility or market reversals can be the result of global events happening in far flung corners of the globe. Top analysts and fund managers simply do not have the resources to crystal ball gaze and predict those events.

Examples of several major unexpected events that sent shock waves throughout the financial community have been:

– 1982 Mexican Peso devaluation;
– 1987 stock market...