Resources for Basel II Capital Accord (Basel II)

Helping to balance risk and maintain secrecy

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Having gained a doctorate in nuclear physics and worked as a research fellow in the semi-clandestine world of US nuclear laboratories before co-founding and running New York-based hedge fund consultancy Investor Analytics , Damian Handzy knows there are many similarities between the two worlds.

He believes specialist techniques learned in disciplines such as rocket science are highly transferable and desirable in the world of leveraged finance. And he also understands the need for secrecy in the hedge funds world more than most.

"Some investment banks believe in proprietary, secret investment decisions and that's the value and perception among their clients they need to maintain," says Mr Handzy, who has been studying the risk profiles and decision-making processes of hedge funds in his present firm for the past nine years, after a stint as a financial services consultant at Deloitte.

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