Hello, Welcome to the seventeenth issue of Allison’s Ode to the Second Moment, a newsletter that believes there are no tail cases, life follows a uniform distribution. The mother of all tail events The election turned out differently than many of us had expected. Some might call it a tail event. For months, polls predicted near certain odds of a Clinton victory. Politics aside, us Pension Geeks can all learn something here. The election presents an opportunity to reflect on how we measure risk. Was this really a Black Swan, an event no data hound could've foreseen, or was the data was just