Most firms neglected to include pandemic in annual risk assessments despite warning signs, study shows

Finance professors Bill McDonald and Timothy Loughran examined all 10-K filings (annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission) from 2018, before the current pandemic, and found that less than 21 percent of the filings contain any pandemic-related terms.

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