Risk (magazine)

Risk is a magazine covering financial risk management and the global derivatives markets. It includes papers on option pricing and hedging, market risk, credit risk, swaps and Monte Carlo methods. Articles include news, comment and mathematical papers on an aspect of derivatives risk and pricing. Risk has a tradition of covers featuring pieces of abstract modern art. It has been described as Incisive Media's "flagship financial management title".^[1] Energy Risk — a sister title that covers energy trading and risk management — was spun off in 1994.^[2]

It was founded by Peter Field in 1987. It was owned by Risk Waters Group, then was acquired by Incisive Media, the owners of Post Magazine, The Inquirer and Investment Week, in 2003, the current editor being Nick Sawyer. Journalists include: Duncan Wood, Joel Clark, Christopher Whittall, Matt Cameron, Alec Campbell, Mark Pengelly and Peter Madigan.

The circulation figure for the magazine for 2000/01 was 7,728 ^[3]

Lifetime achievement award

• 2015 Andrew Feldstein
• 2014 Wilson Ervin
• 2013 Leo Melamed
• 2012 Lance Uggla
• 2011 John Hull
• 2010 Anshu Jain
• 2009 Robert A. Jarrow
• 2006 Bruno Dupire
• 2003 Robert C. Merton

Quant of the year

• 2015 Christoph Burgard and Mats Kjaer
• 2014 Michael Pykhtin
• 2013 Pierre Henry-Labordere
• 2012 Jesper Andreasen and Brian Huge
• 2011 Vladimir Piterbarg
• 2010 Marco Avellaneda
• 2009 Lorenzo Bergomi
• 2008 Dilip Madan
• 2007 Paul Glasserman and Michael Giles^[4]
• 2006 Vladimir Piterbarg
• 2005 Philipp Schönbucher
• 2004 Michael Gordy
• 2003 Peter P. Carr
• 2002 Richard Martin
• 2001 Jesper Andreasen and Leif Andersen
• 2000 Alex Lipton

External links

• Risk homepage at risk.net

References