Investing is all about striking the right balance between risk and return. There are different types of risks in the stock market and there are ways to mitigate them. All investors naturally want to ...

Idiosyncratic risk is unique to specific investments like companies or industries. Systematic risk impacts all investments and is driven by macroeconomic factors. Mitigate idiosyncratic risk by ...

The mid-term review of Sendai Framework underscored that there are growing concerns on the acknowledgement of multi-hazard, multidimensional, and systemic nature of risk. The global risk science ...

For the past 50 years, Americans have invested most of their financial assets in private and public capital markets. The risks we undertake and the way we manage them determine our economic future.

Airline safety comparisons often focus on outcomes, while regulators and operators assess safety performance through layered ...

Dr. Knapton is the founder of Rocky Mountain CIO, a company providing fractional CIO services to small and medium sized businesses. Since publishing my article last year on measuring and managing tech ...

Accounting for unrealized market-value losses on banks’ securities and loan investments caused by the secular increase in interest rates that began in early 2022, I estimate that, as of September 30, ...

Private capital markets are no longer a side story in global finance. Despite the sector’s insistence that it brings many benefits to the broader economy, the growing size of private capital markets ...

On April 21, 2023, the Financial Stability Oversight Council ("FSOC") issued two important proposals[1] regarding the designation of a nonbank financial firm as a systemically important financial ...

Nvidia's (NVDA) stock may pose a systemic risk to the broader stock market. This year alone, Nvidia accounts for 25% of the gains in the Bloomberg 500, a tracking proxy for the S&P 500, and 75% of ...

Market concentration is not inherently problematic. Economies of scale matter, and large players often drive efficiency gains ...