There are a lot of geopolitical and macroeconomic issues that should make investors worry about a drawdown in US equities. Market crashes aren't really black swans, since returns have a fat tailed ...

Discover how tail risk impacts portfolios, why rare financial events matter, and strategies for safeguarding investments against significant, unexpected losses.

Just in time for the global financial crisis, EurasiaGroup president Ian Bremmer has a new book. Co-authored with Preston Keat, it is called Fat Tail, and it deals with one of the most complicated ...

In their entertaining new book, The Fat Tail, Eurasia Group investment strategists Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat observe that while banks likely spent $8 billion on credit-risk software in 2008, most ...

Donald Trump's impending appearance at the Nashville Bitcoin conference has traders preparing for fat-tails – extreme or unusual price movements in the leading cryptocurrency. Activity in the options ...

Two new ETFs are being launched by Tuttle Capital Management Tuesday. FOMO ETF: The new FOMO ETF FOMO captures the best of the commonly used phrase "FOMO": fear of missing out. “The fund’s strategy is ...

The term “Black Swan” became extremely popular after Nassim Taleb introduced it in his book and the 2008 meltdown graphically illustrated the concept. As it became part of the Wall Street lexicon, the ...

New research from MIT calculates that superspreading events are even bigger drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic than previously thought. The analysis of superspreader events — which the researchers ...

I, and the rest of the world, bought "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" last Friday. Forbes reports that in one weekend, it has climbed to the top of the Amazon booklist, and demand for the ...