If the elephant decides to rampage through a local village (or get spooked by stock market fluctuations or ignore retirement savings), there's not much the rider can do.
His work covers the physics of disordered and glassy systems, granular materials, the statistics of price formation, stock market fluctuations and the modelling of financial risks.
As these are higher-risk areas, investors are advised to take a long-term view and drip-feed money into a diversified fund to smooth out sudden stock market fluctuations.
