<b>STRATEGIC RISK MANAGEMENT</b><p>Having just experienced a global pandemic that sent equity markets into a tailspin in March 2020, risk management is a more relevant topic than ever. It remains, however, an often poorly understood afterthought. Many portfolios are designed without any thought given to risk management before they are handed off to a dedicated¿but separate¿risk management team.<p>In <i>Strategic Risk Management: Designing Portfolios and Managing Risk</i>, Campbell R. Harvey, Sandy Rattray, and Otto Van Hemert deliver a reimagining of the risk management process. The book envisions a marriage between the investment and risk processes, an approach that has proven successful at the world¿s largest publicly listed hedge fund, Man Group.<p>The authors provide readers with a new framework for portfolio design that includes defensive strategies, drawdown risk controls, volatility targeting, and actively timing rebalancing trades. You will learn about how the book¿s new approa