Comprehensive Risk Management Services

Institutional-grade expertise with flexible, cost-effective engagement models

Our fractional CRO service delivers comprehensive, institutional-grade risk management tailored to your organisation's specific needs. We act as your dedicated Chief Risk Officer, providing integrated risk leadership across all critical areas without the overhead of a full-time executive.

We provide complete risk management capability - strategic oversight, operational controls, regulatory compliance, and crisis response - with the specific focus and intensity adapted to your organisation's requirements, complexity, and stage of development.

Four Integrated Service Pillars

Fractional CRO Function

  • Executive risk leadership and board representation

  • Risk committee participation and regulatory liaison

  • Crisis management and incident response, including when it matters most

  • Investment committee risk advisory

  • Strategic risk planning and appetite setting

Comprehensive Risk Frameworks

  • Enterprise risk management architecture

  • Portfolio and market risk management and monitoring

  • Operational risk controls and management

  • Margin Requirement and prime broker allocation optimisation

  • Risk reporting and dashboard development

Risk Mitigation       

  • Liquidity risk management and contingency planning

  • Third party vendor risk assessment and management

  • New product and business development risk oversight

  • Prime broker relationship management

  • Incident response, investigation and remediation

Regulatory Compliance

  • Multi-jurisdictional expertise

  • Regulatory change oversight

  • Policy development and implementation

  • Compliance frameworks, oversight and reporting

  • Regulatory breach assessment and remediation

Tailored To Your Needs

Our engagement adapts to your organisation's specific circumstances:

  • Fund size and complexity - from emerging managers to established multi-billion dollar funds

  • Strategy and geographical coverage - single or multi-jurisdictional operations and broker relationships

  • Stage of development - launching new funds, scaling operations, or optimising existing infrastructure

  • Intensity of support - from monthly strategic oversight to weekly operational engagement

Your Questions Answered

  • A fractional CRO gives you senior risk leadership at the decision-making table — shaping how the firm sizes opportunity, structures exposure and earns the confidence of investors and counterparties — without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. It's the same calibre of judgement a large institution relies on, made accessible to managers who want it working for them from an earlier stage.

  • The strongest funds treat risk leadership as foundational rather than something added once problems appear. Getting your frameworks, oversight and risk culture right early sets a cleaner trajectory — it shapes how you scale, how you raise, and how counterparties and allocators see you — and the fractional model makes that level of seniority affordable well before a full-time appointment would be justified.

  • The distinction is one of role rather than label: this is embedded risk leadership — a senior partner engaged with your strategy, your investment committee and your counterparty relationships on an ongoing basis. You get continuity and genuine ownership of the risk agenda, scaled to the time your firm actually needs.

  • Engagements are shaped around the firm, but usually combine framework and governance design, active oversight of market and counterparty exposure, and a senior point of contact for investors, counterparties and regulators. We go as hands-on as the firm needs — from setting direction to working through the detail alongside your team — with the same aim throughout: risk leadership that helps the business move with confidence. Engagements often run as an ongoing partnership, but can equally be scoped around a specific mandate.

  • Because this is a senior individual rather than a build-out, engagements can begin quickly and flex as the firm grows — scaling up around fundraising, a new strategy or a period of change, and settling back to a steady cadence once things are established. You hold senior risk capability on call, sized to the moment.