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''Global risks - interactions.''
''Fraud - investment.''


A polycrisis is a situation in which multiple global risks occur at the same time, interacting with compounding effects, such that the overall impact exceeds the sum of each part.
A Ponzi scheme is a type of investment fraud.


''Source: World Economic Forum (WEF) - Global Risks Report 2023 - p57.''
An illusion of high rates of investment return is created by making payments to early investors out of the proceeds from later investments.
 
This is an unsustainable structure, dependent for its continuation on attracting ever-larger numbers of investors.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Business risk]]
* [[Fraud]]
* [[Climate risk]]
* [[Pyramid selling]]
* [[Commercial risk]]
* [[Misrepresentation]]
* [[Country risk]]
* [[Environmental risk]]
* [[Event risk]]
* [[Financial risk]]
* [[Geoeconomics]]
* [[Geopolitical risk]]
* [[Global risk]]
* [[Gross domestic product]]  (GDP)
* [[Guide to risk management]]
* [[Natural resources]]
* [[Operational risk]]
* [[Political risk]]
* [[Risk]]
* [[Risk identification]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[Sovereign risk]]
* [[Systemic risk]]
* [[Transition risk]]
* [[Weather risk]]
* [[World Economic Forum]]  (WEF)
 
 
==Other resource==
*[https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2023.pdf Global Risks Report 2023 - World Economic Forum]


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[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Investment]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
[[Category:Risk_reporting]]

Revision as of 01:06, 29 December 2020

Fraud - investment.

A Ponzi scheme is a type of investment fraud.

An illusion of high rates of investment return is created by making payments to early investors out of the proceeds from later investments.

This is an unsustainable structure, dependent for its continuation on attracting ever-larger numbers of investors.


See also