Chair, Asset Management & Capital Markets Committee

Position: Chair, Asset Management & Capital Markets Committee — Global Risk Alliance (GRA) / Nexus Governance System
Type: Investor usability, capital-markets interface, and disclosure-governance leadership role (non-executive; strictly non-executing)
Board: Council committee chairs are considered for Board/Trustee nomination after serving in good standing
Location: International (distributed, hybrid)
Term: 3 Years
Time commitment: ~15–30 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge periods around program shelf releases, disclosure packages, and event/cycle escalations)
Apply here: https://therisk.global/work/job/chair-asset-management-capital-markets-committee/

Context and Purpose

Asset managers, pension funds, insurers’ general accounts, endowments, and capital markets can allocate at scale only when programs and instruments are comparable, disclosure-ready, monitorable, and correctionable. The dominant friction is not investor interest—it is the absence of standardized evidence and reporting objects that survive investment committee scrutiny, fiduciary duty requirements, and regulatory disclosure expectations. “ESG narratives” are not sufficient; investors need reliance-bounded, auditable structures with clear monitoring and correction mechanics.

The Chair, Asset Management & Capital Markets Committee governs the investor-usability layer of the Nexus rail within GRA: standards and templates that make readiness programs and risk-transfer structures capital-markets compatible—disclosure packages, reporting and verification packs, index governance requirements, benchmark comparability, and conduct-safe interfaces that investors and intermediaries can adopt—while preserving strict separation between governance and regulated execution.

This is governance—not execution. The role does not provide investment advice, recommend securities, structure offerings, market, place, distribute, manage assets, custody funds, or imply endorsement. It produces governance artifacts and committee decisions that licensed market participants can use.

Key Responsibilities

• Chair the committee cadence and decision rhythm; maintain a disciplined pipeline of investor-usability dockets (disclosure packages, reporting packs, benchmark comparability standards, index governance, correction rules).
• Define “investor-ready” requirements for governance artifacts: reliance-bounded claims, audit trail sufficiency, monitoring integrity, comparability, and clear correction/supersession mechanics.
• Ensure outputs remain governance-safe: templates and standards, not investment products, recommendations, or execution arrangements.
• Standardize investor disclosure and diligence interfaces:
  • disclosure package templates suitable for investment committees and fiduciary review (governance templates only)
  • monitoring and verification packs (KPIs, cadence, evidence requirements, audit posture)
  • risk/assumption disclosures and limitation statements (no misleading precision)
  • correction and change-control notices (versioning, supersession, deprecation)
• Maintain comparability across jurisdictions and program types to enable portfolio allocation and benchmarking.
• Govern index, benchmark, and methodology reliance posture relevant to capital markets: lineage, reproducibility, governance of changes, and challenger review expectations.
• Ensure reporting frameworks align to real investor workflows (IC memos, ongoing monitoring, material change notices) without turning GRA into an issuer or advisor.
• Ensure public-safe summary posture is strong: avoid greenwashing dynamics and prevent marketing claims from outrunning recorded decisions.
• Enforce conduct, neutrality, and competition-safe convening: prevent preferential access for any manager, arranger, rating/verification vendor, or intermediary; avoid pay-to-influence dynamics.
• Maintain strict non-execution boundaries: no investment advice, no manager selection, no placement/underwriting, no term negotiation, no “approved products.”
• Coordinate communications integrity to prevent GRA recognition/standards being marketed as performance assurance or regulatory approval.
• Drive participation and seat coverage across asset managers, pension funds, insurers’ investment teams, endowments, allocators, and relevant regulators/standards participants—while enforcing fit-and-proper and conflict controls.
• Sponsor quarterly learning cycles: disclosure failures, monitoring gaps, disputes, corrections, and improvements to investor-usability templates and standards.

Compensation, Remuneration, and Expenses

This role is designed to be trust-maximizing and capture-resistant in regulated investment contexts.

• Governance authority is not paid. Compensation is never linked to votes, approvals, recognition decisions, enforcement actions, investment outcomes, market outcomes, or influence. No success fees. No pay-to-approve.
• Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted). If build-year operational work is required (disclosure template libraries, reporting pack design, benchmark governance frameworks, committee operations), compensation may be provided only for clearly defined operational services—scoped, time-bounded, deliverable-based, independently approved, and auditable, with conflicts safeguards.
• Expenses may be reimbursed. Reasonable, documented, pre-approved out-of-pocket expenses required for the role may be reimbursed in accordance with policy and handling requirements.
• Standing and independence apply. Continued service depends on remaining in good standing, meeting disclosure obligations, and maintaining independence consistent with integrity and conduct requirements.

Opportunities for Leaders to Join

• Build the investor-usability standards that convert resilience programs from narratives into allocatable, monitorable, correctionable structures.
• Shape disclosure and reporting frameworks that survive fiduciary, regulatory, and audit scrutiny—without turning governance into an issuer or advisor.
• Convene allocators and intermediaries in a neutrality-safe forum designed to reduce greenwashing risk and improve market integrity.
• Strong performance positions leaders for broader chairing responsibilities and board consideration (without implying entitlement).

Leaders Profile

We are seeking senior leaders (typically 15+ years) with credibility across one or more of:

• Asset management investment governance, portfolio oversight, investment committee processes, or fiduciary risk management.
• Capital markets, structured finance, ILS/impact/resilience instruments, or long-term allocator governance (pensions, insurers, endowments).
• Disclosure, reporting, and monitoring frameworks in regulated investment environments (including material change controls).
• Market integrity, conduct, or regulatory experience relevant to investor protection.

Capabilities and Mindset

• Fiduciary realism: understands what investment committees can rely on and how to standardize it.
• Boundary discipline: refuses execution drift (no advice, no product endorsement, no placement).
• Neutral convenor: can convene competitors and intermediaries without preferential access or capture.
• Correction-positive: treats corrections and traceable change control as core to market trust.
• Strong writing and disclosure instincts: precise about what can be claimed and what cannot.

Eligibility, Membership, and Independence

• Holds a primary full-time role outside the committee chair seat and can sustain the expected cadence and surge periods.
• Willing to fully disclose relevant interests (employer ties, fund mandates, distribution roles, financial interests) and comply with conflict-of-interest, recusal, and conduct requirements.
• Not placed in a situation where service creates unmanageable conflicts, compromises neutrality, or creates regulated-activity ambiguity.
• Accepts strict confidentiality, handling discipline, and communications integrity expectations.
• Commits to remain in good standing (participation, disclosures, and applicable contribution obligations).