Amount Quote by Robert F. Engle

The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they…

— George Soros

If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system.

— Elizabeth Warren

I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something…

— Yvon Chouinard

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

— Andrew Lo

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

— David Dreman

The best approach to risk is to identify and manage it.

— Mark Walport

Sensible risk-taking isn't just important in the financial world; risk traverses all industries.

— Randi Zuckerberg

When large companies take on risk, then they impose risks on the rest of the system. And these are systemic risks and these systemic…

— Robert F. Engle

I think that's something that investment banks have worried about for a long time and are continuing to worry about, but it's not an…

— Robert F. Engle

You need to have a lot of human judgment involved in the financial industry in terms of risk management, in terms of investment decisions,…

— Adena Friedman

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do…

— Warren Buffett

Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

— Ian Hacking