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Plight of the Fortune Tellers : Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently
Today's top financial professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading--and puts everyone at risk. In Plight of the Fortune Tellers, Riccardo Rebonat...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter : 1 Why This Book Matters; Chapter : 2 Thinking about Risk; Chapter : 3 Thinking about Probabilities; Chapter : 4 Making Choices; Chapter : 5 What Is Risk Management For?; Chapter : 6 VaR & Co: How It All Started; Chapter : 7 Looking Beneath the Surface: Hidden Problems; Chapter : 8 Which Type of Probability Matters in RiskManagement?; Chapter : 9 The Promise of Economic Capital; Chapter : 10 What CanWe Do Instead?; Endnotes; Index. | |
| 520 | |a Today's top financial professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading--and puts everyone at risk. In Plight of the Fortune Tellers, Riccardo Rebonato forcefully argues that we must restore genuine decision making to our financial planning. Presenting a financial model that uses probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory, Rebonato challenges us to rethink the standard wisdom about risk management. He offers a radical yet surprisingly c. | ||
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