An impending sense of crisis surrounds Argentina, with the peso’s risk surging to alarming heights, while market risk remains well below record levels.

The basic building blocks of risk reporting are the portfolio’s combined exposures to a set of pre-defined (in the case of Fundamental factor models) risk factors.

Ten years ago, most financial institutions wanted nothing to do with the cloud, given perceived security and privacy risks. What a difference a decade makes. 

The first quarter of 2018 was characterized by the dramatic return of share price volatility. 

An investor may have a high level of investment skill but perform poorly because he does not conceive of investing as distinct from gambling. 

The upside to greater regulatory oversight is more transparency and reporting standardisation; but at what cost? 

Investors are almost certainly aware of the recent rout in the FAANG stocks, but what happened to their risk, even before this recent episode, may be surprising.

We will explore the tax functionality of the Axioma Optimizer through the use of a fictional case study of a company that is managing investments.