Market gamblers to blame?
by Dr Mehrshad Motahari, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Finance and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Dr Mehrshad Motahari The Nobel Prize–winning Cumulative Prospect Theory of Tversky and Kahneman (1992) has revolutionised our understanding of how humans make economic…
What determines cryptocurrency’s expected return?
by Dr Hui (Frank) Xu, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Finance and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Dr Hui (Frank) Xu Since the emergence of the cryptocurrencies, they have quickly become the focus of asset managers. Although many ongoing…
Strategic Risk Europe: Traditional risk management concerns prevail in global corporations
Traditional financial benchmarks, not much-publicised issues such as environment, are the top concerns of senior risk managers, says a new report from the Centre for Risk Studies (CRS) at Cambridge Judge Business School and the Institute for Risk Management. Dr…
Traditional risk management concerns prevail in global corporations
Traditional financial and operational performance top global risk management concerns over the next 12 months, while much-publicised issues such as environment, tax and diversity lag well behind. Traditional benchmarks such as financial and operational performance top the concerns of senior…
Corporate risk
From a risk perspective, the past decade has been traumatic, from the global financial crisis to election shocks of tectonic proportions. Professor Daniel Ralph of Cambridge Judge says not to expect the next decade to be any better, instead -…
Insurance Times: Pool Re to extend cover to include physical damage from cyber attacks
Pool Re, the terrorism reinsurance pool in UK, will extend its cover to include material damage caused by cyber attacks. The extension is based on a research study by the Centre for Risk Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School. Simon…
Reuters: UK terrorism reinsurance fund to include cyber coverage from next year
Reinsurer Pool Re from next April will begin providing cyber terrorism insurance based on a study by the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies at Cambridge Judge. The study identified 40 potential cyber terrorism scenarios which may impact a UK insurance…
Cyber terrorism
Pool Re, the UK terrorism reinsurance pool, will begin providing cyber terrorism insurance based on a study by the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies. Pool Re, the UK terrorism reinsurance pool set up in 1993 in the wake of the…
Raconteur: From Brexit to festivals, tools must measure a new generation of risks
Businesses should look for new tools to measure risks. Dr Michelle Tuveson, Executive Director of the Centre for Risk Studies, comments: “Risk management and its supporting research will need to expand to address the demand for greater clarity in modelling…
Cambridge TV: Cambridge entrepreneurs – AlgoDynamix
In the sixth installment of the Cambridge Entrepreneurs series on Cambridge TV Luther Phillips from the Entrepreneurship Centre interviews Dr Jeremy Sosabowski of AlgoDynamix, a Cambridge start-up that detects financial market anomalies that result in significant price disruptions. Watch the video…