The risk-free rate is the rate of return offered by an investment that carries zero risk. Every investment asset carries some level of risk, however small, so the risk-free rate is something of a ...

Downside risk refers to the potential for an investment to decrease in value. Unlike general risk, which considers both upward and downward price movements, downside risk focuses solely on the ...

For more than a year, financial-market players struggled to envision how high U.S. interest rates would need to go to curb persistent inflation, leading to a drying-up of transaction activity. Now, ...

Mumbai: Bloomberg today announced that YES BANK, a leading full service commercial bank in India, has adopted Bloomberg’s Multi-Asset Risk System (MARS) to enhance its risk management technology, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the management of wealth, portfolios, and finances. “Risk” is a something of a loaded word, having a somewhat ...