AllianceBernstein’s CRO on managing risk with imagination

Buy-side risk survey: Andrew Chin suggests ripping up old assumptions and creating crisis ‘playbooks’

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Imagination is usually a key attribute for people in creative industries. But Andrew Chin at AllianceBernstein thinks he and his peers in high finance could do with more of it too.

Although part of his job as chief risk officer is to dream up a variety of scenarios, Chin says the Covid-19 crisis took him by surprise. 

“Who would have thought this virus can actually