Es werden Short Interst, Hedge Funds und Market Risk Hedging behandelt. Etwas wie Fazit aus dem Artikel:

‘Heightened geopolitical risk is a fact of today’s investing climate. The equity risk premium has risen. The new elevated risk premium is a sign of underlying health for the equity markets, along with the natural result of a grudging acceptance of the new geopolitical environment, the bubble’s bursting, the subsequent accounting scandals and the substantial losses incurred in 2000 to 2002. It suggests that any impact from a terror attack most likely would be short-lived.’

“And, five years later, we can see that the investors who fared the best in the wake of the 9/11 attacks were those not swept up in the panic. Indeed, this was entirely predictable at the time.”

Dies ist Zitat aus einem weiteren Artikel zum Thema: For the markets, 9/11 helps revisit old lessons