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Time Diversification: Tool, Fallacy Or Both?, Ladd Kochman, Randy Goodwin
Time Diversification: Tool, Fallacy Or Both?, Ladd Kochman, Randy Goodwin
Ladd Kochman
It seems fair to conclude that time diversification is more nearly a fallacy than a tool. Total periodic returns based on random annual outcomes expose the practice of diversifying with time not only as unproductive but as extremely risky as well. Yet, as the contrived distribution of alternating returns of 30% and -10% demonstrated, it is impossible to completely reject the idea that risk can actually decrease over time.
Rethinking Risk-Based Information Security, Herbert Mattord
Rethinking Risk-Based Information Security, Herbert Mattord
Herbert J. Mattord
The information security discipline has a common body of knowledge comprised of many facts, techniques, and ways for its practitioners to accomplish the objectives of securing the information assets of the companies by which they are employed. Sometimes these practitioners simply do things the way they have always been done. Perhaps some of the practices need to be reexamined. One that needs attention is the way that risk-based decision making is applied in places that it may not improve the outcomes of the problems being addressed.