Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Event Risk

Event risk is the chance that some non-systemic, one-off event will impact your investment. In bonds, a classic example of event risk would be a LBO. Other examples would be mergers, large share buy-backs, union strike, loss of major customer/supplier, fraud, etc. Event risk does not describe some general economic/political event, such as 9/11.

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