Welcome to Tail Hedging
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0 0 Facebook 0 0 Twitter 0 0 Linkedin 0 0 Reddit On Saturday morning, my buddy picked me up in his new Tesla. I’m not a car guy. I enjoy driving only on the backroads of upper Michigan during the summer. But I have to admit that the Tesla is a pretty fantastic automobile. …
Universal Tail Risk
0 0 Facebook 1 1 Twitter 0 0 Linkedin 0 0 Reddit Ben Bernanke needs to feel like his life means something—contributed to society in some important way. Making significant contributions to the evolution of new tools of monetary policy lets him leave a mark. There is nothing unusual about this need because it is…
0 0 Facebook 1 1 Twitter 0 0 Linkedin 0 0 Reddit A properly designed tail risk hedge cost effectively mitigates risk. In March of 2020, the US government shut down a small portion of the US economy, when it mandated risk measures to protect against the spread of COVID-19. The predominant sectors that were…
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