Uncertain? Nervous about the future? Scared witless about market volatility? Fear not! You are not alone - your affliction has been diagnosed and the good news is a remedy is at hand.
According to Rob Gardner, founder and co-CEO of pensions consulting outfit Redington, this anxious form of investing has its own acronym – VUCA. This wonderfully obtuse term has apparently become big in pointy-headed management consulting circles, but actually first originated with military strategists. VUCA stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Apparently, a great many military strategists consider all these factors when surveying a battlefield operations theatre, and it seems investors are no different. VUCA sums up many market participants’ fears about th...
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