David Rowe’s Risk Management Blog

What follows is the first step in an attempt to spark a participatory conversation about issues related to the theory and practice of financial risk management.  In recent years I have had many opportunities to discuss financial risk management issues with a wide range of academics and practitioners.  Often these discussions have related to my Risk Analysis column in Risk magazine.  It occurred to me that a web log (better known as a blog) would be an excellent vehicle to extend these bilateral conversations to a multilateral framework open to all interested parties.

Not surprisingly, given my background and present employment, many of the issues I find most interesting are closely related to technology.  Nevertheless, I am open to including discussions of broader topics that others deem important and relevant.  This is not intended to focus on highly technical theoretical issues.  Rather I would like to address broad trends in the financial sector and the economy as a whole that have risk management implications.  For many of these topics there are no definitive answers.  Nevertheless, a variety of perspectives and opinions often helps to clarify the problems.