Tag Archives: Joe Nocera


Traditional Risk Management – Where does it fit in the future of Portfolio Management?

The chorus of pundits critical of VaR, traditional risk models, and Modern Portfolio Theory has grown louder over the years with a crescendo in the past few months with the public defeats of these theories in failing to defend firms against over-exposure in RMBS, CMBS, CDS and numerous other shaky acronyms.  Although I agree that stat-based risk management has its […]