by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Feb 2, 2026 | Risk Report
I am always in awe of the vast specificity of the English language, so imagine my delight to find out that there is a word for the fear of bubbles: trypophobia. While the word most commonly refers to the fear of actual bubbles, such as soap, gum, or boba, I will take...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jan 12, 2026 | Risk Report
This week marks a year since the devastating fires in Los Angeles. A year is a long time for those in Altadena and Pacific Palisades who were displaced and still do not have a home to return to. Between physical clean-up, financial resolution, and the accompanying...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jun 30, 2025 | Risk Report
There is a global push for retail investors to be able to put their money into private assets, which cover investing in or lending money to (funds of) private companies or big infrastructure projects. The lure is, of course, the potential for higher and smoother...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Sep 3, 2024 | Risk Report
Don’t you just love it when, at the end of a soap opera season, it turns out that the four side-stories are connected, and the manager from the corner store is the long-lost twin* of the heir to the billion-dollar empire, and they will now have to share the fortune...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jun 24, 2024 | Risk Report
Many of us know the chain of events set in motion, when you tell a toddler in very specific terms what they should NOT do. Sometimes financial markets act in the same way. In this year’s yen episodes, the grown-up is the Japanese top foreign-exchange official, Masato...
