Risk Management

Upcoming Events

The next meeting will be scheduled at a future date.

Any questions about this group can be directed to Rob Bernstein. Contact Rob if you are interested in attending the next meeting and are not on the attendance list for this SIG.

Past Events

On September 25, 2024, Chapter President Rob Bernstein presented “How to Generate Superior Risk-Adjusted Returns in the Current Market Environment.” | Slides | Recording

On June 26, 2024, Chapter President Rob Bernstein showed how to use Fasttrack and its spreadsheet capability to select the best funds from the best asset classes. | Slides | Recording

On March 6, 2024, Chapter President Rob Bernstein presented a series of charts showing how his risk management strategy works. | Presentation | Recording

On June 21, 2023, Chapter President Rob Bernstein led a Roundtable discussion. | Recording | Chat | Summary

On March 1, 2023, Ryan Redfern, CMT, ChFC, spoke about using Sentiment indicators (AAII and NAAIM) and other technical indicators to assist in risk management. | Slides | Recording

On September 28, 2022, Chapter President Rob Bernstein and Chapter Secretary James Hoffmann presented “Low Volatility Portfolios — How Have They Fared?” and “Enhancing Your Use of Fasttrack“. | FT Cloud Hot Keys | Presentation | Recording

On June 22, 2022, Chapter President Rob Bernstein and Chapter Secretary James Hoffmann presented “How to Leverage FastTrack to Create Good Risk-Adjusted Returns”. The presentation included a introduction to FTCloud. | Presentation | Recording

On March 5, 2022, Chapter President Rob Bernstein and Chapter Secretary Jim Hoffmann provided “FTCloud Follow Up Session”. This was a follow-up to previous meetings in which the FastTrack Charting and Analysis Tool was explained. | Presentation | Recording

On November 3, 2021, Chapter President Rob Bernstein presented “The Best Risk Adjusted Returns in Decades … and how to find them using FastTrack Charting and Analysis Tool”. | Presentation | Recording

From June 30, 2021 to July 13, 2021, Chapter President Rob Bernstein conducted 4 classes on the use of FastTrack’s FT Cloud product.

On June 12, 2021, Chapter President Rob Bernstein presented how to use low volatility funds to produce excellent risk-adjusted returns. | Presentation | Recording

On December 5, 2020, chapter member Randy Olsen presented his strategy for avoiding large drawdowns using the 50-day exponential moving average of the Merrill Lynch US High Yield Master Index II combined with the VIX. | Presentation | Recording

On September 26, 2020, Rob Bernstein explained the value of investing in low volatility funds to help manage risk in one’s portfolio. This included how to identify low volatility funds that are providing above average returns, how to set reasonable entry and exit points, and most importantly why managing risk is so important to one’s overall financial success. | Presentation

On June 6, 2020, Prof. Ryan McKeon spoke about using data from the options market to understand market sentiment and help manage risk. Following that, Rob Bernstein provided a market update and explained where the good risk-adjusted returns are. | Ryan’s slides | Rob’s slides | Recording