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To be or not to be, that is the question

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Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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GABY LINSCHEID (C.A.I.B. (SA))

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PROFILE

Gaby is the director of Risk101 USA, a company which designs and supports risk and portfolio management software for the financial markets. She moved to Charlotte, NC, to consolidate an American profile for the same software that she used first-hand while managing an options book at one of the biggest banks in Southern Africa.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RISK101 USA – Director (2011)

As head of the American Risk101 team, Gaby brings with her all the global risk management experience of a software company that has focused on portfolio management and market risk issues for the past twenty-five years.

AFRICAN WELCOME CC. – Owner/Co-founder/CFO (2002-2010)

Gaby was co-founder and CFO of a travel service company, a car rental company, and a limousine service company. These three entities employed over 140 staff, providing high-end tours, safaris and group incentive packages to an exclusive segment of the international retail and corporate market.

SABBATICAL – 2002-1999

She retired and travelled extensively, managing her international art collection before creating African Welcome CC.

NEDBANK – Derivatives/Proprietary trader (1989-1999)

· Gaby managed a fixed interest options and futures fund, building one of the biggest emerging market derivative trading books in Africa.

· Her trading career ended with a flourish, with four record-breaking years of leveraged returns capitalising on the high-volatility trading  environment of the Asian contagion of 1997/1998.

· Her astronomical profits were 1000% over budgeted return in the final year, on top of a steady 150% return for the previous three years.

· Risk management decisions were assessed utilising Risk101 software.

BOARD OF EXECUTORS (BoE) – Money market treasury (1987-1989)

Money market activities included cash management and asset allocation.

NEDBANK – Manager (KwaZulu Natal) for electronic banking roll out (1982-1987)

· Gaby pioneered and managed the roll out of electronic payment systems for the corporate market to enable straight-through settlements and wage payments.

· She spearheaded the marketing campaign for the system launch.

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EDUCATION

Institute of Bankers (SA) – Passed both certificates and qualified with a C.A.I.B., achieving the highest results countrywide

University of Natal – Course studies in Mathematics and Chemistry

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- Carbon trading volumes expected to grow rapidly over next 12 months

- ‘Ozone3’ controls exposure to carbon-related products

Risk101, a leading market risk management software provider to the fund management industry, has launched into the UK and Europe its new portfolio risk management product for carbon-related securities called Ozone3. Risk101, which is establishing a base in London, anticipates double digit growth in the carbon trading market in Europe as more asset managers, hedge funds and pension funds invest increasingly in socially responsible and renewable energy securities. A key feature of the software is its flexibility in that it can be applied to both the „primary? and „secondary? carbon markets.

Ozone3 incorporates all the essential tools and models required for risk measurement and helps fund managers assess their exposure to all carbon-related securities traded in the secondary market, including Certified Emission Reductions (CERs), EU Emission Allowances (EUAs) and their associated derivatives, as well as energy related commodities such as oil and electricity futures. It offers all the portfolio and risk management capabilities of a full secondary market trading system, including interactivity; drill down; multi-asset and multi-currency. It can also be tailored by users to fit their own company setup models and to build bespoke risk management systems. Ozone3 also provides portfolio managers with specific capabilities for managing investments and exposures in the primary market, which covers projects designed to meet the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and other verification standards. These projects can then be categorised (and exposures isolated) by country, currency, methodology (wind, solar, biogas etc) or user-defined categories.

Jonathan Ellenberger, founder and CEO, Risk101 said, “Volumes in the global carbon-trading market have grown rapidly since its inception in 2005 and while 2010 saw a slowdown, volumes are widely expected to rise again in 2011. “There will be a greater need than ever for a simplification of sophisticated information to asset managers, group treasurers and investors. In the wake of the financial crisis, there is a new emphasis on risk management that has led many asset managers to take another look at their IT strategy. They want to implement more robust front-to-back risk and portfolio management systems that can handle new products, new regulation and new customer reporting and service levels.

“Ozone3 is unique in using a „risk outcome factor? which highlights the chances of a successful completion of a project and enables users to reduce the expected certified CERs by applying a limiting factor. Project investments can be „rolled-up? into the securities that are expected to come from the project (CERs or VERs), which allows cross project comparisons and aggregations.”

To find out more about Risk101 Group, please call +44 203 2864 101 or visit www.risk101.com

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Media enquiries:
Alistair Kellie / Stephen Sheppard, Citigate Dewe Rogerson
Alistair.kellie@citigatedr.co.uk; Stephen.sheppard@citigatedr.co.uk; 020 7282 2850 / 1025

Notes to editor:
Risk101 Group is a leading provider of market risk software solutions to the fund management industry. Risk101 incorporates all the essential tools and models required for risk management and performance measurement to help fund managers control their exposures at a global level through to individual portfolios and asset classes. The company has a global presence with offices in the UK, South Africa, Australia and the US. Risk101 Group serves more than 45 leading institutions through its products, Risk101 and Ozone3. Ozone3 has all the capabilities of Risk101 but is geared towards trading carbon related products.
Risk101 Group is owned by the management team led by Jonathan Ellenberger.

This will be the fourth fund of hedge funds that the Risk101 Group have in their rapidly expanding global client base. ‘Risk101’s four-tiered account hierarchy works well for fund of funds, who look to drill down into individual managers’ risk, as well as to control their total top-level exposures at a company level,’ says Director Sarah McCarthy, ‘We are very proud to have been selected by Caveo, and look forward to working closely with them in years to come. They have already made some suggestions to improve our compliance module.’ Risk101 remains at the forefront of the markets’ changing demands by no-charge developments in response to client requests, thus enhancing their core product.

‘The challenge with installing at a fund of funds is the need to interface with multiple systems, to get each manager’s data in as quickly and as seamlessly as possible. Caveo identified that this was a priority for them, so it has been our focus over the last weeks,’ says Director Alun Darwood, who oversaw much of the installation process. ‘Risk101 is already rich with interfacing capabilities in the local and international financial arena, so we leveraged those, and were able to get the funds’ data in and bedded down relatively quickly’, he said, from Risk101’s Cape Town office.

Risk101 has achieved traction locally and abroad as a risk management product, with some clients enjoying the added benefit of the robust PMS system upon which it sits. The Group has clients in South and Southern Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia and the USA.

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Media enquiries:

Alistair Kellie / Stephen Sheppard, Citigate Dewe Rogerson

Alistair.kellie@citigatedr.co.uk; Stephen.sheppard@citigatedr.co.uk;

020 7282 2850 / 1025

Notes to editor:

Risk101 Group is a leading provider of market risk software solutions to the fund management industry.  Risk101 incorporates all the essential tools and models required

for risk management and performance measurement to help fund managers control their exposures at a global level through to individual portfolios and asset classes.  The company has a global presence with offices in theUK,South Africa,Australiaand theUS.  Risk101 Group serves more than 45 leading institutions through its products, Risk101 and Ozone. Ozone has all the capabilities of Risk101 but is geared towards trading carbon related products.

Risk101 Group is owned by the management team led by Jonathan Ellenberger.

www.risk101.com

BCS Capital rolls out Risk101 as their core risk and administrative system.

BCS was formed in 2006 with the intent of building a high-performing boutique fund manager of Australian equities.

The Directors of BCS are John Bowers, David Clarke and John Stuckey. From their formal academic studies and subsequent working lives, the founders of BCS believe that industry and macro-economic factors are the major drivers of corporate profit changes, and hence share price changes, and that the market is slow to fully recognise these factors in share prices.

Over the past three years they have undertaken research using this philosophy by modelling the performance of companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

“We felt that Risk101 offered the ideal balance of both risk and administrative functionality, which dovetailed perfectly with our needs.“ said Clinton Joyner, COO.

Risk101 went live today after extensive testing, where BCS staff members worked directly with Risk101 over a period of several months.

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Media enquiries:

Alistair Kellie / Stephen Sheppard, Citigate Dewe Rogerson

Alistair.kellie@citigatedr.co.uk; Stephen.sheppard@citigatedr.co.uk;

020 7282 2850 / 1025

Notes to editor:

Risk101 Group is a leading provider of market risk software solutions to the fund management industry.  Risk101 incorporates all the essential tools and models required

for risk management and performance measurement to help fund managers control their exposures at a global level through to individual portfolios and asset classes.  The company has a global presence with offices in theUK,South Africa,Australiaand theUS.  Risk101 Group serves more than 45 leading institutions through its products, Risk101 and Ozone. Ozone has all the capabilities of Risk101 but is geared towards trading carbon related products.

Risk101 Group is owned by the management team led by Jonathan Ellenberger.

www.risk101.com

Brait South Africa Limited, with attributable earnings for 2010 up 11% in a tough market, has up-scaled Risk101 to its primary risk management system since March of this year. Brait chose Risk101 over Sophis after an in-depth analysis period lasting nearly six months.

‘Risk101’s consistent level of accuracy on security pricing as well as their speedy response time sealed the decision for us’  said one of their most successful managers, Linda Smit, a PhD holder trading complex fixed interest derivative structures.

Once the decision had been taken, Risk101 developers worked very closely with the Brait risk management team to fine tune the risk offering and blend it to accommodate Brait’s specific requirements while maintaining their own rigorous first-principal pricing discipline. Risk101 has a unique business model that allows it to remain lean and mean in a competitive market: it does not do bespoke programming. Thus Brait requests have enhanced the Risk101 offering for existing and future clients. Where privacy required, the company designed a simple MS Access dump for clients to maintain further results and analytics outside of the system in their own data warehouse.

Brait is a dominant participant in the SA hedge fund industry, with its Fund of Funds largest in the arena at a current value of R3.1bn. The Private Capital portion was around R8bn at time of going to press.

Risk101, with over sixty clients worldwide, has a committed team of global Directors determined to raise the Risk101 global profile.

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Media enquiries:

Alistair Kellie / Stephen Sheppard, Citigate Dewe Rogerson

Alistair.kellie@citigatedr.co.uk; Stephen.sheppard@citigatedr.co.uk;

020 7282 2850 / 1025

Notes to editor:

Risk101 Group is a leading provider of market risk software solutions to the fund management industry. Risk101 incorporates all the essential tools and models required

for risk management and performance measurement to help fund managers control their exposures at a global level through to individual portfolios and asset classes. The company has a global presence with offices in the UK, South Africa, Australia and the US. Risk101 Group serves more than 45 leading institutions through its products, Risk101 and Ozone. Ozone has all the capabilities of Risk101 but is geared towards trading carbon related products.

Risk101 Group is owned by the management team led by Jonathan Ellenberger.

www.risk101.com

Swita Investment Management goes live with Risk101.

Swita chose Risk101 after a lengthy selection process which started in mid 2009. They had specialised real-time risk requirements which involved them working directly with Risk101 programmers throughout the rollout process.

“The deal clincher for us was not only the back office  functionality, but Risk101’s real-time risk management, and their ability to send compliance breaches directly to our Blackberrys.” said Tim Baker, COO.

Swita is a fund that specialises in Australian and International equities funds management. They currently have two investment funds focused on Australian and International equities.

With an investment style that is focused on identifying investment themes and trends using sophisticated screening techniques, their focus is on investing in companies trading at a discount to intrinsic value.

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Media enquiries:

Alistair Kellie / Stephen Sheppard, Citigate Dewe Rogerson

Alistair.kellie@citigatedr.co.uk; Stephen.sheppard@citigatedr.co.uk;

020 7282 2850 / 1025

Notes to editor:

Risk101 Group is a leading provider of market risk software solutions to the fund management industry. Risk101 incorporates all the essential tools and models required for risk management and performance measurement to help fund managers control their exposures at a global level through to individual portfolios and asset classes. The company has a global presence with offices in the UK, South Africa, Australia and the US. Risk101 Group serves more than 45 leading institutions through its products, Risk101 and Ozone3. Ozone3 has all the capabilities of Risk101 but is geared towards trading carbon related products.

Risk101 Group is owned by the management team led by Jonathan Ellenberger.

www.risk101.com