MangustaRisk
The Risk Management Specialists

MangustaRisk is an independent British Italian investment consulting company 100 percent owned by its full-time partners. The company specializes in investment advice and risk management, ESG/SRI portfolio construction, strategic and tactical asset allocation, and asset liability management and liabilities-driven investments. MangustaRisk offers a state-of-the-art integrated and unique IT risk and investment reporting system covering all types of assets deposited across different banks, investment vehicles and asset managers—essential for asset owners’ and family offices’ core activities.

“Over two decades of striving activity MangustaRisk has created a very good working environment for our partners, senior managers, analysts, and risk managers. Thanks to this we have a very high level of personnel retention and therefore a very low turnover,” says Andrea Canavesio, the Director and Partner of MangustaRisk.

MangustaRisk has a matrix organization, where all clients are followed by several employees within the same department and by at least one partner.

This structure enables the company to have a permanent backup for all clients. In the current structure, MangustaRisk is still able to offer partner coverage in each meeting, committee, and board to all its clients.

MangustaRisk’s experience in selecting alternative investments places them among the most qualified subjects in Italy and Europe for different asset classes. Compared to the Italian consulting companies, MangustaRisk has a high level of internationality both in the history of the company and for the background of the partners. This allows for a greater and better understanding and in-depth analysis of selection, monitoring, and due diligence activities.

Unlike many international consultants, MangustaRisk has knowledge of the Italian and alternative Italian markets and their database of funds and managers that are much deeper and more complete. The company has always had a focus on technology and developed cutting-edge applications (MangustaWorld) for monitoring performance and risks, including alternatives.

MangustaWorld is updated by the company’s recurrent public manager searches, monthly (or weekly) monitoring of performances and risk, and quarterly reviews through visits, video calls, and conference calls. Managers don’t have access to it and do not upload info into it. This enables MangustaRisk to be totally independent and unbiased in its searches.
MangustaRisk has been carrying out (for 20 years) the measurement, evaluation, and selection of funds/financial managers for its clients, as well as the qualitative/quantitative monitoring of hundreds of investment products. The company uses several databases for the quantitative screening of funds, including MangustaWorld, FactSet—one of the main world’s databases, MorningStar Direct— one of the world’s leading databases specialized in Funds/UCIs and Preqin— one of the world’s leading databases specialized in closed-end funds/AIFs.

“Through the access to MangustWORLD, our clients have access to all our intellectual properties in strategic allocations, expected returns, expected volatilities, correlations, all risk and performance monitoring numbers and ratios of their portfolio. This allows them to utilize our knowledge either independently or with our support. This flexible tool and flexibility in offering our services has made a considerable difference in the success of our approach,” says Canavesio.