One discovery recently is this podcast that spun out of Real Vision, a paid online TV program that brings across some of the brightest minds in finance.

Titled Adventures in Finance, they tried to explain and deconstruct one popular or less discussed phenomenon, financial concepts to listener.

This week’s episode is titled Volatility in a Peaceful World and you can listen to it here.

There are some very profound things shared in the episode.

The link between liquidity and volatility. Stephen Diggle is a Singapore based hedge fund manager who made billions on the volatility trade in 2007 and 2008. He explained that the concept of volatility is simpler to understand then most people think and not always involving complex mathematical formulas that most of us won’t understand.

My takeaway is that while I know that risk and volatility are different things, which might not occur to many people, ...