Hypothesis: Risk, like Mass and Energy, Can Neither be Created nor Destroyed.  Discuss

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Quintin and Will imagine the title as an essay question in a final financial examination and use this as a stepping stone to look at issues surrounding risk in financial products, the risk of the form may take, and the difference between perceptions of risk and reality. Questions are also raised about the impressions of risk levels that may be conveyed to clients by advisers and wealth managers.  This article was originally published in the CISI members’ magazine The Review. Republished with permission.

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Q G Rayer and W Dickson (2017), Hypothesis: Risk, like Mass and Energy, Can Neither be Created nor Destroyed.  Discuss, CISI, The Review of Financial Markets, issue 13, p6-8, Quarter 2, May 2017.

 

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