Risk (Qualitative Finance) (Volume 1)

RISK is the first book in finance expert Janet Tavakoli's Qualitative Finance series. Her reader-friendly commentaries on complex financial topics break new ground in global finance.

Tavakoli's Unique Insights on Risk and Reward

"Higher math produces the wrong answer to nine decimal places, and computers spit out the wrong answer faster. Technology churns out numbers that are astonishingly precise even when they are terrifyingly inaccurate."

Learn how to identify risk and opportunities.

• Identify a bank's biggest risks


• Manage the risk of short positions


• A new big short and how to find the next big short


• The huge hole in the Efficient Market Hypothesis


• The most important analysis to reduce portfolio risk


• Red flags for fraud


• The paramount concept omitted from texts on risk


• The major myth in Modern Portfolio Theory


• A "fixed income" analysis that is as important for stocks as it is for bonds


• The leverage paradox


• How to fix the global banking system