Risk
28 October 2011
It is perhaps unhelpful that the investment industry is wedded to the notion that volatility is analogous to risk. Volatility is a simple measure of market movements and is often misunderstood.
14 October 2011
What the recent FSA Guidance Note on investor risk profiling made clear was that it is useless to spend time assessing a customer’s attitude to investment risk unless at least equal attention is given to ensuring the investment recommended matches the customer’s risk tolerance.
16 September 2011
Kweku Adoboli, an ETF trader at UBS, is suspected of unauthorised trading which cost the bank £1.3bn. But UBS is far from alone in suffering the sting of internal fraud, as this gallery of the world's most infamous rogue traders shows...
16 September 2011
The revelation of rogue trading at UBS follows a period of market volatility. That is nothing new, say risk managers.
12 August 2011
Am I the only one to have noticed many investors seem to be using heightened uncertainty to suggest a new moral order should prevail?
17 June 2011
Announcing a haircut on Greek bond holdings would help restore a positive mood to bond markets, which have largely priced in such a move, said DWS Investments' CIO Asoka Wöhrmann.
15 April 2011
The focus for my innovative suggestions this week is the thorny subject of risk and why both advisers and investors need to better understand the truly volatile nature of investing.
08 April 2011
Investors have got over the wobbles of February. The ides of March were good for the bulls. The main investors and commentators are in love with risk again.
08 November 2010
Boutique asset manager Evercore Pan-Asset has completed its risk-rated fund range with the launch of the PanDynamic Cautious Balanced and Cautious Growth portfolios.
27 September 2010
What is risk? Well, that is the $64,000 question, isn’t it? The answer being: it is what you are prepared to lose.
16 September 2010
The latest GDP figures coming from around the globe show signs of slowing growth.
26 August 2010
Real risk is not about Greek symbols; it is about losing money. It is not about tracking error or weighting reports – it is something that is offensive and hurts
18 August 2010
Morningstar’s quantitative research director criticises a recent study on risk measurement
02 July 2010
Before the crunch, all that many investors wanted was superior returns.
17 May 2010
Index funds will play an increasing role in investor’s portfolios as advisers reject the risk associated with seeking pure outperformance, Vanguard’s Francis Kinniry says.
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