Is it Risk or Is it Superinvestor?

These resources will help you to complete this discussion:

• Buffett, W. (1984, May 17).The superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville.Retrieved fromhttps://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/superinvestors
• How Warren Buffett thinks about risk [Blog post].(2016, March 9). Newstex Global Business Blogs.
• Ross, S. A., Westerfield, R. W., Jaffe, J. F., & Jordan, B. D. (2018).Corporate finance: Core principles and applications(5th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
• These chapters advance the concept of risk by relating it to return. The concepts of risk and return are directly correlated. They affect investment and capital project selection and are incorporated in corporation and investment value.
• Chapter10, "Risk and Return: Lessons from Market History," pages 287-315.
• Chapter11, "Return and Risk: The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)," pages 316-355.

Risk management is used by all investors and corporations. This discussion will help you understand how world-class investors manage risk. These risk managementconcepts will be employed in the Unit 10 assignment, Financial Engineering to Enhance Shareholder Value.To gain a full understanding of the impact of risk on the success or failure of capital projects,you should strive to seethe different views of risk and that all should be considered.

Warren Buffett is the most successful investor inour lifetime, and he employs capital budgeting tools and risk assessments before he decides to invest. After reading the two articles on Buffett, how would you assume Warren Buffett employs capital budgeting and risk management in selecting which companies to buy? How do his ideas on risk differ from academic metrics and concepts of risk? Which are more reasonable? Why is the academic definition of risk different from the definition of risk by "super investors" like Buffett, Munger, and Graham?