Company History

Forethought Risk was founded in December 2008 by Jonathan Jacob to provide asset & liability management services to pension plans, insurance companies and asset management firms. After spending many years on each side of the balance sheet, Jonathan was determined to fuse those experiences into providing unrivalled insight into risk for various financial entities. For Jonathan's full bio, click here .

In 2010, Jonathan was asked to join Benefits Canada's Online Expert Panel. See Forethought Risk in the Media for articles written by Jonathan.

March 2011

Jonathan Jacob explains ex-ante and ex-post risk measurement and how they can be used together to get a clearer picture of risk in this article for Benefits Canada.

February 2011

Benefits Canada publishes article by Jonathan Jacob which sheds light on the different attitudes toward pension fund risk from plan members and plan sponsors. See here for a link to the article.

January 2011

Society of Actuaries publication on Moving Forward from the Financial Crisis includes Jonathan Jacob's article on "Actuaries and Assumptions" - see FR Media

December 2010

Jonathan Jacob participates in debate on global equities versus Canadian equities at Canadian Investment Review

November 2010

Canada's Department of Finance contracts Forethought Risk to evaluate the asset allocation framework used to manage Canada's foreign exchange reserves - for details on other clients and projects click here

November 2010

Rainer Kaufmann joins Forethought Risk as consultant - see Rainer's bio here

March 2010

Jonathan Jacob named to Benefits Canada Online Expert Panel

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