Oliver Whitehead

Head of Investment Risk, Man AHL
Man Institute Contributor

Oliver Whitehead is Head of Investment Risk at Man AHL.

Prior to joining Man AHL in 2018, Oliver worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was most recently a risk manager, responsible for a number of fixed income trading desks. Before that, he worked as a quantitative analyst developing new risk and pricing models.

Oliver holds an integrated Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Warwick.

Man Institute content contributed by Oliver

Preparation Trumps Prediction: Managing Risk during an Election Year

In Focus read 12 min
August 2024

Preparation Trumps Prediction: Managing Risk during an Election Year

2024 was always set to be a crucial election year - but we have encountered some unexpected twists so far. How can investors ready their portfolios for election market uncertainty?

The Sting Is In the Tail

Systematic read 14 min
August 2022

The Sting Is In the Tail

Looking for a powerful tool to identify return skewness and asymmetry, correlation breakdowns and heavy-tailed returns? Tail betas may be the answer.

War and Portfolio Risk: Lies, Damned Lies and Correlation Statistics

Systematic read 5 min
March 2022

War and Portfolio Risk: Lies, Damned Lies and Correlation Statistics

For portfolios with multiple assets, correctly assessing correlations can be just as – or even more – important than estimating the absolute size of market moves. The Russian invasion of Ukraine provides a case study of this principle.
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