Ethan Berman

CEO, RiskMetrics

Cost-cutting by banks and doubts about the integrity of some of their analysts have got to have an upside.

Ethan Berman, chief executive of RiskMetrics, has found it. A New York-based quantitative analysis firm that was spun off from JPMorgan in 1998 by 25 people, RiskMetrics now employs just over 200 and provides more than 450 clients with risk analysis tools.

“I’d be lying if I said I saw how everything would develop,” says Berman. “Like I say, better lucky than smart.

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