Understanding tail risks — nightmarish scenarios — is vital.
Not exact matches
In this Part 1, first, we look at the
tail of an asset return distribution and compress our knowledge on Value - at -
Risk (VaR) to extract the essence required to
understand why VaR - stuff is not the best card in our deck.
Their greatest weakness was in not having a suitable
understanding of the downstream, or long
tail,
risk of derivatives, particularly in the reference securities.
You fully
understand and agree to assume all
risks involved and all duties that you perform for
Tails of Gray in your volunteer capacity.
Since a mean is an expected outcome, and
risk is thought of as this outcome multiplied by the severity, you can
understand why fat -
tails are taken seriously.
[UPDATE: For more on the need to
understand and communicate this «
tail risk» of climate change, see Dr. Kerry Emanuel's recent post on CCNF, titled «Tail Risk vs. Alarmism.&raq
tail risk» of climate change, see Dr. Kerry Emanuel's recent post on CCNF, titled «Tail Risk vs. Alarmism.&raq
risk» of climate change, see Dr. Kerry Emanuel's recent post on CCNF, titled «
Tail Risk vs. Alarmism.&raq
Tail Risk vs. Alarmism.&raq
Risk vs. Alarmism.»]