Learn how Value at Risk (VaR) predicts possible investment losses and explore three key methods for calculating VaR: ...

The revamped American Heart Association tool offers a surprising look at the issues that make cardiovascular disease the ...

Learn what active risk is and how to calculate it. Understand the methods to evaluate active risk in portfolios and explore examples of funds outperforming benchmarks.

Purpose: To examine the features of available Framingham-based risk calculation tools and review their accuracy and feasibility in clinical practice. Data Sources: Medline, 1966-April 2003, and the ...

Every investment involves a possible gain and a possible loss. The risk/reward ratio compares how much you could lose to how ...

All investments have some level of risk, and bonds are no exception. Some bonds have virtually no chance of default, such as U.S. Treasuries, while others have a significant default risk. Companies ...

One of the dangers of investing in a long-term bond is the potential for it to lose value before it comes due. When you buy a bond, you're essentially lending an entity (such as a company or ...

If most midsize companies have a formal risk management process, why did so many fail even in pre-pandemic years? The problem is that risk heat maps — many companies’ primary tool for assessing risk — ...

Security practitioners have to figure out how to accomplish their security goals with the budgets they have. They also must show that their security programs are effective at protecting their ...

Breast cancer is now the leading cause of global cancer incidence among women but determining who will develop breast cancer is still a challenge for the medical community. A new tool, developed by ...

Actress Olivia Munn credits an online breast cancer risk assessment quiz with helping to wave the red flags before doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer. She has since encouraged more women to ...

Our Medline search identified 1,306 articles on risk assessment for coronary heart disease and our final Internet search, conducted on April 28, 2002, identified 3,690 websites. After review of ...