In this paper we consider the operations of a non-financial corporation and present a novel risk-management framework … where the decision maker - the firm's manager - is risk averse. Critically, our framework (i) imposes risk aversion through … a generic class of tail risk constraints and (ii) considers explicitly the differences than can, and often do, exist …

such policies. A typical industry practice consists of using fund mapping regressions to represent basis risk stemming from …