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How To Reduce The Risk Of FX Trading

Strategy Driven

More of us will be looking to increase our income throughout this difficult time, and thankfully, because the FX market is not tied to an economy, it has not been impacted as much as you might expect. Below, we’ll take a look at the risks that come with the FX market and how you can manage FX risk during a recession.

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Small Firms Shifting Horizons As A Result Of Brexit

The Horizons Tracker

It shows clear attempts to move exports away from EU markets to elsewhere in the world. The data showed that the smallest exporters were shifting up to 46% of their export growth from the EU to other markets since the referendum in 2016, with slightly larger firms shifting around 19% of their exports. Gravity defying. Tariff barriers.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. But recently, these financial outcomes have been found to predict only about 50% of a firm’s market value. Financial markets Performance measurement Leadership'

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A 6-Part Tool for Ranking and Assessing Risks

Harvard Business Review

More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors. (One of us, Luke, is so enthusiastic about CARVER that he cowrote a book on it.). 3 – Moderate impact.

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Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars. This is especially true in supply chain risk management, although those high-profile one-off events do not necessarily represent the largest portion of risks that should be addressed regularly by supply chain managers.

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Don’t Trust Your Company’s Reputation to the Quants

Harvard Business Review

We find the debate interesting because it offers a great example of reputation risk – and more specifically, of why such risk has to be assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Over the decades, risk management has become a deeply quantitative endeavor. Public relations Risk management Transparency'