Date: August 27th, 2008

The unequal struggle: Part 2, unlimited downside and limited upside

27 August, 2008 (08:22) | Capital markets, Finance, Policy, Subprime, Theory | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
  
“A short option position with unlimited downside and limited upside”
– Anonymous risk manager, describing the career implications of rejecting a deal
 
Yesterday’s post featured the anonymous confessions, published in The Economist, of a risk manager giving a fear’s-eye view of recent turmoil in the capital markets.  They’d had a nasty scare in […]