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Essentials of Risk Management

By: Michael Crouhy, Dan Galai, Robert Mark

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Product code: 20023
ISBN: 0071429662
416 pages
Format: Pb
Published by: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006, 1st edition
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Description of Essentials of Risk Management
Ignorance of financial risk management leaves many non-risk professionals wondering, "What did I miss?" The Essentials of Risk Management provides decision makers with the tools they need to understand, manage, and address high-risk situations with foresight instead of hindsight.

Topics include:
- Tools for consolidating and managing a firm's risk
- Models for measuring volatility, correlations, and more

Essentials of Risk Management - Chapter headings
1: Risk Management'a Helicopter View

2: Corporate Risk Management'A Primer

3: Banks and Their Regulators'The Research Lab for Risk Management

4: Corporate Governance and Risk Management

5: A User Friendly Guide to the Theory of Risk and Return

6: Interest Rate Risk and Hedging with Derivative Instruments

7: From Value at Risk to Stress Testing

8: Asset 'Liability Management

9: Credit Scoring and Retail Credit Risk Management

10: Commercial Credit Risk and the Rating of Individual Credit

11: New Approaches to Measuring Credit Risk

12: New Ways to Transfer Credit Risk'And their Implications

13: Operational Risk

14: Model Risk

15: Risk Capital Attribution and Risk 'Adjusted Performance Measurement

Epilogue: Trends in Risk Management

Authobiography of Michael Crouhy, Dan Galai, Robert Mark
Michel Crouhy, Ph.D., is the head of research and development and financial engineering at IXIS Corporate and Investment Bank (Groupe Caisse d'Epargne). He has the bankwide oversight on all quantitative research and the development of new products and applications supporting the trading and structuring businesses. He has published extensively in academic journals in the areas of banking, options, risk management and financial markets.

Dan Galai, Ph.D., is the Abe Gray Professor of Banking and Finance at The Hebrew University. He is a co-CEO of Sigma PCM, an investment banking firm. Galai has consulted for the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange, and for many major banks and corporations.

Robert M. Mark Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Officer of Black Diamond, which provides corporate governance, risk management consulting, and transaction services. He is the chairperson of The Professional Risk Managers' International Association's (PRMIA) Blue Ribbon Panel. He was awarded the Financial Risk Manager of the Year by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).