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''Risk management.''
''Law''.
An apparently unusual event of very high impact, particularly one which - before it happened - was believed in error to be highly improbable or even impossible.


The use of the term in finance derives from the widespread historical (and erroneous) belief in the Northern hemisphere that black swans did not exist, in the period before the common occurrence of black swans in the Southern hemisphere had been reported in the North.
Freehold means permanent and absolute ownership of land or buildings.


The concept was popularised in a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - "The Black Swan" - where he summarises the problem in risk management as "the confusion of absence of evidence of Black Swans (or something else) for evidence of absence of Black Swans (or something else)".
In some cases, the owner of a freehold (the freeholder) may choose to lease the property to a tenant.
In other words
 
 
== See also ==
* [[Absolute]]
* [[Assets]]
* [[Contract]]
* [[Contract hire]]
* [[Contract purchase]]
* [[Dry]]
* [[Finance lease]]
* [[FLA]]
* [[Hire purchase]]
* [[Ijara]]
* [[Leasehold]]
* [[Lessee]]
* [[Lessor]]
* [[Operating lease]]
* [[Sale and leaseback]]
* [[Tenant]]
* [[Tenure]]
* [[Wet]]
 
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]

Revision as of 16:01, 24 December 2019

Law.

Freehold means permanent and absolute ownership of land or buildings.

In some cases, the owner of a freehold (the freeholder) may choose to lease the property to a tenant.


See also