This book provides an overview of the evolution of investment and risk, together with a synthesis of research on these … strategies and trends in investment. Broad in scope, the book covers the most important aspects of investment risk management …

higher degree of downside risk. To hedge against that specific risk, investors could buy put options. However, the … of short selling the underlying security, i.e. transfer risk to a third party, something not properly developed in the … necessary, in this paper we show the point calculating protection against downside risk in the Argentinean stock market, using …