“We will at times purchase insurance, whether it's idiosyncratically for a given circumstance in a given market or overall in the portfolio, if we think something large enough is perhaps occurring that will have consequential effects on the entire portfolio. So you could actually go out and buy options or some explicit insurance”
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buy options or other explicit insurance to reduce portfolio risk when a large event is anticipated
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“We also episodically hedge what we call black swan risk. We look for, you know, the event that could cause a market crash. And the way we manage that risk is by buying these sort of asymmetric instruments, credit default swabs, various kinds of options to hedge.”
“They went up when the stock market crashed in October of 87 and it was like wow that that worked and it worked really well and people perceived it as being risky but it actually reduced overall portfolio risk”
“We've just released a product called Risk Data Refinery, which transforms unstructured risk data, such as insurance slips and SOVs, statements of value into clean analytics ready exposure data models. So it reduces the time and manual effort to onboard critical data.”
“Use AI to identify recurring themes, contradictions, missed opportunities, and potential risks… dramatically reducing the time required to get from a large amount of information to the handful of issues that actually deserve human attention”