Financial Risk Management For Dummies
Description
Written by bestselling author and past winner of the GARP Award's Risk Manager of the Year, Aaron Brown, Financial Risk Management For Dummies offers thorough and accessible guidance on successfully managing and controlling financial risk within your company. Through easy-to-follow instruction, you'll find out how to manage risk, firstly by understanding it and then by taking control of it. Plus, you'll discover how to measure and value financial risk, set limits, stop losses, control drawdowns and hedge bets.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Getting Started with Risk Management
Chapter 1: Living with Risk.
Chapter 2: Understanding Risk Models
Chapter 3: Taking Charge of Risk
Chapter 4: Managing Financial Risk
Chapter 5: Functions of a Financial Risk Manager
Part II: Measuring Financial Risk
Chapter 6: Valuing Risk.
Chapter 7: Stress Testing for Success
Chapter 8: Speaking Greek
Chapter 9: Accounting for Extremes
Part III: Managing Financial Risk
Chapter 10: Setting Limits.
Chapter 11: Stopping Losses
Chapter 12: Controlling Drawdowns
Chapter 13: Hedging Bets
Part IV: Working in Financial Institutions
Chapter 14: Trading Places
Chapter 15: Banking on Risk
Chapter 16: Managing Assets and Portfolios
Chapter 17: Insuring Risk
Part V: Communicating Risk
Chapter 18: Reporting Risk
Chapter 19: Regulating Finance
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 20: Ten One-Minute Risk Management Tips
Chapter 21: Ten Days that Shook the (Financial) World
Chapter 22: Ten Great Risk Managers in History
Chapter 23: Ten Great Risk Books
Index