Decloaking from lurker mode for a moment... Did you read the article in last Saturday's New York Times Magazine section on Risk Management on Wall Street. I think you'll find it both highly informative and occasionally hysterical (this guy Taleb is so Rodney McKay's long lost twin...).

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/magazine/04risk-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=Risk&st=cse&scp=3