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''Risk management.''
(SPV).  
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.
A legal entity established to facilitate a single transaction or purpose.


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 other words, that the existence of financial "black swans" tends to lead to the systematic under-assessment and understatement of financial risk.
== See also ==
* [[Asset backed commercial paper]]
* [[Conduit]]
* [[Special Purpose Entity]]
* [[Sponsor]]
* [[SSPE]]


== See also ==
[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
* [[Risk management]]

Revision as of 11:22, 12 August 2016

(SPV).

A legal entity established to facilitate a single transaction or purpose.


See also