Temasek Holdings fund manager to share tips with local financial community

A fund manager working for a top Asian investment fund would be in Sri Lanka to share and train local financial positions on risk management. A fund manager working for a top Asian investment fund would be in Sri Lanka to share and train local financial positions on risk management. David Belmont Managing Director and Head of Risk Management at Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government's asset management arm, will conduct a program on 10 June, on creating shareholder value through risk management at the invitation of the Sri Lanka Chapter of Chartered Financial Analysts.

"Its very well accepted that a business must take risk," says Ajantha Madurapperuma of the CFA Sri Lanka Chapter. "If we challenge that there is no business.

And then probably there are no returns as such. Other than probably risk free returns that you can earn. If things go well then of course you are very happy.





But if things go wrong then you wonder why you took that risk. The idea of risk management is to take the benefits of upside potential of taking such risks but at the same time manage the down side potential not to have if possible the