What is a Tail Event Risk Rating?
A tail event risk rating gives an idea of how vulnerable a portfolio would be in the rare event of a market shock. The distribution of market returns is expected to be normally distributed with the bulk of returns in the middle of the bell curve and fewer returns on either of the tails. Though uncommon, as their name would suggest, left tail events do occur and can be reasonably expected to occur with a higher probability i.e., more often...