LarkspurRixtrema
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From risk systems for advisors to algorithms used by robo-advisors, quant risk management has gone mainstream. These systems have gone from being housed on supercomputers at large institutions to cloud-based systems with calculations that cost almost nothing. However, as cheap risk modeling revolutionizes the way everyone invests, it is important to keep in mind one crucial two-word question: “So what?”
Quantitative risk estimation on Wall Street has always been about attempting to hit the right risk level. In a world of wealth management, this is equivalent to hitting the proper risk tolerance for the investor.
So as robo-advisors and human advisors are adopting risk management systems they seem to be focused on the risk tolerance aspect of risk system implementation. But risk tolerance is only one of the aspects of the answer to the “So what?” question. The other one must be the reason that an investor wants to take the risk in the first place. Read more here: On Risk Tolerance and Broken Noses
Quantitative risk estimation on Wall Street has always been about attempting to hit the right risk level. In a world of wealth management, this is equivalent to hitting the proper risk tolerance for the investor.
So as robo-advisors and human advisors are adopting risk management systems they seem to be focused on the risk tolerance aspect of risk system implementation. But risk tolerance is only one of the aspects of the answer to the “So what?” question. The other one must be the reason that an investor wants to take the risk in the first place. Read more here: On Risk Tolerance and Broken Noses
