The risk issue we need to talk about

David Bell | David Bell, St Davids Road Advisory | 19 July 2013

While it is hard to quantify the benefits of investment risk management - a claim also easily made of other important areas such as governance - this does not mean it should be discounted. Risk management is far more than the calculation of volatility. Many super funds already do much more. Perhaps it is the difficulty in communicating risk to non-financially literate people which is the issue – and it is this which has led to the use and subseque...