Most firms neglected pandemics in annual risk assessments: study
The risk of a pandemic was known prior to the current health crisis, yet in disclosing their risk factors to shareholders in 2018, public companies showed little foresight in terms of the impact and likelihood of a pandemic, according to research from finance professors Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald.
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