April 1, 2020

Explore & Learn: Portfolio & Risk Analytics Mini-series

Portfolio & Risk Analytics with Northfield

Join Nick Wade, Director of APAC at Northfield Information Services and Peter Sheriff, Principal Solutions Architect at Charles River for this “Explore & Learn” webinar where they discuss how institutional asset owners and multi-strategy investment managers can leverage Northfield’s factor models and analytics in Charles River IMS. Webinar highlights:

• Workflow support for asset allocation, manager selection and internal portfolio management
• Risk-based performance / risk over time: Has the manager, the market, or the risk model changed?
• Creating consistency across time horizons of risk from trading to strategic allocation
• Aggregation of risks from marketable and private assets

Presenters

Peter Sherriff
Principal Architect, APAC, Charles River

Having worked in the financial and technology industries for more than 24 years, Peter joined Charles River in 2002 based in the London office where he was responsible for establishing the support function for non-US clients. In 2004, Peter moved to Australia to establish the Asia Pacific operations and has been in his current role since 2008. As Principal Architect, Peter uses his extensive business, product and client knowledge to work closely with the pre-sales and sales team to identify and define the end to end solution to deliver maximum business benefit from the use of Charles River IMS for prospect and client organisations. Prior to joining Charles River, Peter held a number of development and client services positions at Misys Asset Management Systems.

Nick Wade
Marketing Director, Northfield Information Service

Nick is Northfield’s Marketing Director for Asia-Pacific and responsible for managing Northfield’s operations in that region. Previously with Northfield he has been responsible for, or involved with, researching and developing many of our new analytical models, including the US Short-Term Model, and Northfield’s flagship multi asset class enterprise risk model “EE”. Prior to joining Northfield, he designed risk management systems as a consultant with AMS UK Ltd., where he was the risk engine team leader on the West Deutsche Landesbank project and began his career as a Quantitative Analyst with Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo & Co., where he worked on interest-rate, currency, and volatility forecasting models as well as optimization and risk. Nick is a board member of the Chicago Quantitative Alliance in Asia, a member of the Institute of Directors (UK), and a frequent presenter at academic and industry conferences. He holds an honors degree in theoretical physics from the University of York, England, and an MBA from Northeastern University, Boston USA, where he worked for the finance department. A selection of his research is available on the Northfield website and on LinkedIn.