Fat Tails

Market returns have fat tails: extreme moves arrive orders of magnitude more often than the bell curve predicts, and a few days decide decades of performance. The response is structural rather than predictive - cap any exposure that dies in a single tail event and distrust risk measures built on volatility alone. Cheap convex payoffs look like wasted premium and are usually underpriced.

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