When should you protect against rare, but extreme events? When should you self-insure? Under what circumstance should you sell tail risk protection to others?
Topics covered include:
- How tail events differ from tail risk
- Why volatility is not the best measure of risk for individuals
- What does it cost to protect against large stock market losses
- Why younger investors can take more risk due to their human capital
- How does the profit wheel options strategy work
- How the catastrophic power outage in Texas exemplifies tail risk
- Why individuals need to build more reserves because the economic system is too efficient and vulnerable to breakdowns
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Show Notes
Average Weather in San Antonio Texas, United States—Weather Spark
Update on the CBOE BuyWrite and PutWrite Option Indexes, October 2018—Asset Consulting Group
The Texas Freeze: Why the Power Grid Failed Katherine Blunt and Russell Gold—The Wall Street Journal
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency by Roger L. Martin
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