Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In recent years, high inflation and global conflict busted economist predictions. How well are your funds or portfolios prepared to weather market surprises? Scenario analysis can help portfolio ...

Scenario analysis is a useful tool to get a sense of what long-term expectations are implied by any given stock price. Discounted cash flow models used improperly can cause overconfidence and a false ...

Q. How does the Scenario Manager in Excel work? A. Microsoft Excel’s Scenario Manager is a powerful tool for making informed financial decisions. It allows users to create and manage multiple data ...

ESG in Action As climate change intensifies, so do the physical and transition risks to industries and companies. But how do investors quantify those changes? Historically, they’ve measured a ...

Like medieval merchants clinging to flat-earth maps, today's businesses risk purgatory in a climate-changing world by misusing scenario analysis. Here are seven common mistakes that undermine climate ...