Description: “The Great Tech Bubble is one of the great bubbles and collapses in financial market history. It’s an excellent reminder of the madness that humans in financial markets are capable of. That’s just in case we need another reminder right now.”

Description: Feature article discussing the complexity of financial markets.

Description: Reviews anecdotal evidence that the current shift to passive investing is an indication that investors are irrationally ignoring market risk.

Description: In reference to the book Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Steven Scoles describes our ability to detect patterns in certain aspects of life and how these patterns may in fact be simple randomness.

Description: A feature article discussing the financial opportunities of investing in gold.

Description: Full version of Risk and Rewards Newsletter, August 2007, Issue No. 50.

Description: This article discusses capital market cycles, specifically considering whether or not 2008 was a good time to buy. It concludes that “stocks have likely only recently entered the buying opportunity range on an aggregate basis. However, from a psychological and risk management perspective, we should strongly consider that stock prices will revert beyond the mean for many years, perhaps even decades, before they get better.”

Description: In insurance companies and pension plans currency risk arises when a company has future obligations in one currency and investments in another currency. The question that is often asked is whether this currency risk should hedged or not.