Schemes warned volatility a poor measure of risk

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Schemes must recognise that volatility is not a true measure of risk, Ashmore Investment Management head of research Jan Dehn warns.

He argued that despite perceptions that volatility reflects uncertainty in markets under Nobel Prize winner Eugene Fama's Efficient Market Hypothesis, the reality can be far removed from theory. ...

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