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Ask any CEO of a major venue, event or sport; their organisation’s reputation, its brands and its relationships are some of their most important assets. A loss of these can spell disaster for the business, particularly in a world of shrinking revenue’s, participation rates and market share. So what are these issues and why are [...]

Online Forex Currency Trading in the futures or forex markets can be a very fulfilling career. Most want to be traders  are attracted to day trading as it is the only type of job out there that allows an individual to potentially make quite a large amount of money with a relatively small trading account, [...]

Managing the performance of your trading account must go beyond the discipline of money management. While money management remains critical, it is a subset of the total picture of managing your trading account’s profit and loss.
That total picture is what Kenneth L. Grant aptly paints in his book, Trading Risk.  Total performance management of trading [...]

Environmental management can form an integral part of the organizational structure of a business entity depending upon the nature of its operations. In some cases these activities can be very extensive thereby necessitating the use of Environmental Management Software (EMS).
The goal of such software is to effectively simplify the entire range of these activities. Amongst [...]

The whole question of Liquidity Risk Management has become very topical of late spurred on by the initial liquidity crisis in 2007, which occurred in the early stages of the subsequent financial collapse. More and more frequently I find myself being asked the same question or a variation of it “what is the best way [...]

Some of the key challenges in having an efficient risk indicator are incompatible languages used by different sources, usage of different terminologies, timeliness of reporting the risk profiles to the management, appropriate authority to take necessary mitigating steps and finally clearly defining the risk thresholds.
Incompatible languagesIncompatibility in the language refers to two different dimensions, where [...]

Risk management has grown to become a specialized function in many business organizations. In order to cope up with this challenge the use of software has become prevalent and pivotal to the operational health and smooth growth of an organization. The main objective of Quality Management Software (QMS) is to minimize business risk on the [...]

First manage your risk, only then think about how much profit you can make. This is the most important rule for any trader whether day trading or swing trading. Many new traders ignore the importance of sound risk and money management in the start of their trading career. But after losing many trades, they realize [...]

This is the second article in a series of articles on the management of Liquidity Risk. In my first article “Managing Liquidity Risk – The 2007 Crisis” I dealt with the severe liquidity problems experienced by banks worldwide, which began in the summer of 2007 and which heralded the current financial crisis. I then examined [...]

Make no mistake, risk management is big business and every professional risk specialist is in great demand.
This demand is set to continue as one of the growth areas of the security business sector. International risk experts generally all agree that business personnel and fixed valuable assets will continue to pose a significant security risk to [...]