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Risk. It’s the opposite side of opportunity, but that is often not acknowledged by investors.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1853
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Notes
Glyn Holton, Value-at-Risk: Theory and Practice (Waltham MA: Academic Press, 2003, p. 299.
Joe Nocera, “Risk Management,” The New York Times Magazine, January 4, 2009.
Kevin Dowd, Measuring Market Risk (New York: Wiley, 2005), p. 34.
Philippe Jorion, “Risk: Measuring the Risk in Value-at-Risk,” Financial Analysts Journal 52 (1996): 47–56.
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Thomsett, M.C. (2014). Knowing Your Risk Tolerance. In: Investing in Energy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137358479_10
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