Stress Testing: Part 1. Balance Numbers and Narrative
“Uncertainty is a fundamental part of business. Major shifts occur without warning, triggered by a single event, or combination of unrelated, contemporaneous events,” said Sanjiv Talwar, Managing Director, Risk Capital & Stress Testing at Bank of Montreal. He was addressing a webinar audience on May 7, 2013 as the first speaker in a panel organized by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). He summarized the categorization of uncertainty by Courtney et al. in “Strategy Under Uncertainty”, Harvard Business Review. There is a variety of tools available to help manage the uncertainty, Talwar noted: option evaluation, game theory, pattern recognition, […]