Keep Yourself Humble: Monitoring and Managing Geopolitical Risk

Facing up to an unpleasant reality can be an important part of mitigating risk. “It’s human nature to not want to accept that something very bad is going to happen,” Nehad Chowdhury of Citigroup said at a recent RMA New York panel on geopolitical risk. Despite that reluctance, said Chowdhury, Citigroup’s Global Head of Sovereign Credit Management, “you have to step back and dispassionately analyze the realities on the ground.”

David Belmont, Global Head of Alternatives Ris…