Purpose – The paper aims to explore a risk-finance context in which less information may be preferable to more information. Design/methodology/approach – Insurance companies collect a variety of information on potential policyholders to support two fundamental components of risk...

Purpose – The paper aims to explore a risk-finance context in which less information may be preferable to more information. Design/methodology/approach – Insurance companies collect a variety of information on potential policyholders to support two fundamental components of risk...

Purpose – The paper aims to explore a risk‐finance context in which less information may be preferable to more information. Design/methodology/approach – Insurance companies collect a variety of information on potential policyholders to support two fundamental components of risk...

Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to consider the existence and implications of epistemological constraints in the field of risk finance arising from statistical inequalities similar to the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) of statistical estimation theory and the Heisenberg uncertainty...

Purpose – The editorial aims to describe the importance of the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) in matters of risk, and consider why this inequality generally receives less attention than it deserves. Design/methodology/approach – The CRLB is discussed in the context of other celebrated...

Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to study the relationship between the pure risks of insurance and the speculative risks of other financial markets in the context of financial services “convergence”. Design/methodology/approach – The editorial recasts the difference between...

Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to consider the existence and implications of epistemological constraints in the field of risk finance arising from statistical inequalities similar to the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) of statistical estimation theory and the Heisenberg uncertainty...

Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to consider whether or not the classical “Lanchester equations” of military combat are useful for modeling the financial risks associated with contemporary terrorist attacks. Design/methodology/approach – The paper begins by describing...

Purpose – The editorial aims to describe the importance of the Cramér‐Rao lower bound (CRLB) in matters of risk, and consider why this inequality generally receives less attention than it deserves. Design/methodology/approach – The CRLB is discussed in the context of other celebrated...

Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to study the relationship between the pure risks of insurance and the speculative risks of other financial markets in the context of financial services “convergence”. Design/methodology/approach – The editorial recasts the difference between...