
How UBS AM dealt with Covid-19 crunch
Buy-side risk survey: Swiss giant had planned for liquidity squeeze, says CRO – but not one like March

This is the eighth in a series of articles connected to our buy-side risk survey. Click here to read the rest of the series.
Nasreen Kasenally started preparing her firm for a pandemic long before Covid-19 entered the global vocabulary.
When UBS Asset Management’s chief risk officer launched that work three years ago, she was not thinking about the spread of an incurable virus. Instead, she and her team had their eyes on a confluence of factors that would ultimately play a part in the stress
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