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''Corporate finance and risk management''.
1.  ''Treasury - corporate finance - risk management''.


Optimisation is a process of creating the best possible combination of conditions to achieve a particular objective.
Strictly, optimisation is a process of creating the best possible combination of conditions to achieve a particular objective.
 
 
:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Black swan author sceptical of optimisation'''''</span>
 
:"You have to avoid optimization.
 
:That is quite critical for someone who is doing finance to understand because it goes counter to everything you learn in portfolio theory....
 
:I have always been very sceptical of any form of optimization. In the black swan world, optimization isn't possible.
 
:The best you can achieve is a reduction in fragility and greater robustness."
 
:''Living with Black Swans - Nassim Nicholas Taleb.''
 
 
2.  ''Treasury - corporate finance - risk management - operations''.
 
More broadly, optimisation is a process of making changes to improve results.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Black swan]]
* [[Black swan]]
* [[Corporate finance]]
* [[Correlation]]
* [[Efficiency]]
* [[Fat tail]]
* [[Fat tail]]
* [[Guide to risk management]]
* [[Guide to risk management]]
* [[Heuristic]]
* [[Heuristic]]
* [[Interest rate optimisation]]
* [[Minimum variance portfolio]]
* [[Operations]]
* [[Optimal capital structure]]
* [[Optimal capital structure]]
* [[Portfolio ]]
* [[Portfolio analysis]]
* [[Portfolio analysis]]
* [[Probability]]
* [[Probability]]
* [[Redundancy]]
* [[Redundancy]]
* [[Risk]]
* [[Risk]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[Search engine optimisation]]  (SEO)
* [[Search engine optimisation]]  (SEO)
* [[Stress test]]
* [[Stress test]]
* [[Treasury]]
* [[Volatility]]
* [[Working capital management]]
==Other resource==
*[https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wharton-podcast/nassim-taleb-on-living-with-black-swans/ Living with Black Swans - Nassim Nicholas Taleb]
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[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]


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Revision as of 21:24, 25 July 2024

1. Treasury - corporate finance - risk management.

Strictly, optimisation is a process of creating the best possible combination of conditions to achieve a particular objective.


Black swan author sceptical of optimisation
"You have to avoid optimization.
That is quite critical for someone who is doing finance to understand because it goes counter to everything you learn in portfolio theory....
I have always been very sceptical of any form of optimization. In the black swan world, optimization isn't possible.
The best you can achieve is a reduction in fragility and greater robustness."
Living with Black Swans - Nassim Nicholas Taleb.


2. Treasury - corporate finance - risk management - operations.

More broadly, optimisation is a process of making changes to improve results.


See also


Other resource