Capital Market Risk Advisors (CMRA) and Risk Fundamentals Today Announce a Joint Venture

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CMRA has long been a leader in risk management, risk governance, and development of best practices. By joining forces with Risk Fundamentals, we will be able to augment our customized consulting services with more standardized services directed at midsize funds and plans.

New York (PRWEB) June 24, 2009

Capital Market Risk Advisors (CMRA) (http://www.cmra.com ) and Risk Fundamentals (http://www.riskfundamentals.com ) today announce a joint venture combining CMRA's pre-eminent risk management and risk governance consulting services with Risk Fundamentals' state of the art risk transparency software. The joint initiative will provide institutional investors, hedge funds and funds of funds with holistic services to address both quantitative and qualitative risks.

"I'm delighted to be able to announce this new partnership," said Leslie Rahl, founder and Managing Partner of CMRA. "CMRA has long been a leader in risk management, risk governance, and development of best practices. By joining forces with Risk Fundamentals, we will be able to augment our customized consulting services with more standardized services directed at midsize funds and plans."

"Risk Fundamentals is a state of the art risk management and transparency solution for hedge funds, funds of funds and institutional investors," added Richard Horwitz, President. "By offering industry standard risk information across managers and asset classes in conjunction with CMRA's consulting services, we hope to provide market participants with a new and effective way to understand and manage risk."

The services of the joint venture will include:

• Providing clients with a comprehensive picture of their risks and supporting their management of those risks in an integrated fashion across both traditional and alternative assets
• Providing "translations" of risk reports that make them meaningful to Boards and CEOs
• Performing both performance and risk attribution analysis so that clients can maximize the risk efficiency of their returns
• Reviewing risk management and compliance policies of the client and/or, where relevant, its underlying managers
• Benchmarking policies and procedures against best practices and providing a gap analysis
• Training staff on best practices in investment, operational, governance, and risk due diligence
• Assessing funds' valuation, counterparty risk management, and liquidity practices, among others against their peers'.
• Assessing and aggregating liquidity and counterparty risk
• Providing graphic risk transparency reports without position level details
• Performing independent reviews of valuations, risk models, and strategies that use complex instruments
• Providing comprehensive stress testing capabilities to analyze market moves, scenarios, assumptions, and ''management or investor nightmares''
• Using our knowledge gained from doing due diligence on behalf of institutional investors to help hedge funds and funds of funds "Risk Brand" themselves
• Providing a managed account platform for investors and funds of funds

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