Risk Management
This kind of risk can be managed using appropriate financial instruments whose price depends on the volatility of a given financial asset (a stock, a commodity, an interest rate, etc.). Examples are Futures contracts such as ViX for equities, or caps, floors and swaptions for interest rates.
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