Investors concerned about sovereign debt, risk management

It is strangely fitting that consultancy Towers Watson should have spent much of yesterday reminding a room full of institutional investors and fund managers about the importance of risk management and governance. It was, after all, September 15 – the second anniversary of the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers. Yet, in an interactive session to determine consensus on the six most important challenges that asset managers need to overcome in the next decade, it was not risk…