If dogecoin goes to the moon, a risk manager should go too

There seems little logic to the price of meme assets – but bold investors can protect themselves, says tech expert

Dogecoin and bitcoin

Earlier this year, a group of amateur investors turned markets on their heads with concerted speculative bets on the Robinhood trading app. The episode provides a cautionary tale for cryptocurrency investors today, and shows that risk management is often about reacting fast to what is happening now, rather than predicting what is going to happen next.

In the case of cryptocurrencies, a lot has been happening. Bitcoin, the world’s largest digital currency by market capitalisation, has seen a

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Digging deeper into deep hedging

Dynamic techniques and gen-AI simulated data can push the limits of deep hedging even further, as derivatives guru John Hull and colleagues explain

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