Mohamed Ahmed
Senior Consultant
Mohamed Ahmed has over 9 years worth of experience in financial services spanning performance and attribution analysis, risk analytics, asset custody, and listed and unlisted equity analysis. He has experience across the Superannuation and Asset Management spaces as a Performance and Risk Specialist. Mohamed has built out his expertise over the past 12 months covering Operating Model assessment and design for specific operational capabilities.
Leveraging his existing knowledge preformed vendor selection process focused on performance, attribution and data functionalities. Mohamed has exposure to both data management and operations practices through various client engagements.
Prior to joining Cutter Associates, Mohamed was a Performance Specialist in IFM’s Fixed Income team with responsibilities across performance measurement and attribution, risk management as well performing extensive analysis on infrastructure and property debt investments. He also provided oversight to the performance reporting processes.
In this whitepaper, we consider the key risks and potential mitigation strategies for investors that include pension/superannuation funds, multi-asset manager, insurance, sovereign wealth, and family offices.
Alternative assets have become a more mainstream asset class with greater allocations and a broader range of investments. Valuations for alternatives are lagged, usually quarterly, by nature – leaving investors exposed to valuation risk in the interim. The COVID-19 crash in 2020 uncovered this risk with many alternative asset investors rushing to get an updated valuation that reflected fair value given the changed market conditions.