Understanding Value at Risk (VaR): Explanation and Calculation Methods

Learn how Value at Risk (VaR) predicts possible investment losses and explore three key methods for calculating VaR: ...

Maximize Investments: Essential Risk-Adjusted Return Methods Explained

Discover how to evaluate risk in investments using Sharpe, Treynor ratios, alpha, and beta for better portfolio performance compared to risk-free benchmarks.
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Fact Check: Why Relative Risk Reduction, not Absolute Risk Reduction, is most often used in calculating vaccine efficacy

Referring to a “peer reviewed study” published in medical journal The Lancet, users on social media have erroneously claimed that the reported efficacy rates for the available COVID-19 vaccines are ...
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VERIFY: The two ways to calculate how much your risk is reduced by getting the COVID vaccines

WASHINGTON — By now we've all heard that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95%, Moderna of 94%, and Johnson & Johnson about 66%; what you may not have known is that rate's technical ...
The Conversation

AstraZeneca sued over jab: could it be down to a misunderstanding of how risk is calculated?

A multi-million-pound landmark “vaccine damage” case is set to take place in London’s High Court. The test case is being pursued by Jamie Scott who suffered a severe brain injury in April 2021 after ...
The Conversation

It’s all relative: how to understand cancer risk

Director, Sansom Institute for Health Research; Chair of Translational Cancer Research, University of South Australia Absolute risk is the risk of developing a cancer over a certain period of time.