Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Old Stuff

By Rick Nason, PhD, CFA
Partner, RSD Solutions Inc.
One of my favorite pastimes is reading old books and old magazine articles – particularly those related to business.  You may think this is foolish, and perhaps it is.  After all, with the rapid pace of change, things and trends in thinking seem to go out of style ever more quickly with our knowledge based economy.  However, if you take a moment to examine some of the classic risk literature, you might just find that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Sometimes we are so busy trying to adapt or even discover the newest innovation that we miss the wise lessons of the past and never get around to learning the basic foundations on which good risk management practice is built.

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