- Creating value with risk management
- Market efficiency, equilibrium and the Capital Asset Pricing
Model (CAPM)
- Performance measurement and attribution
- Sharpe ratio and information ratio
- Tracking error
- Factor models and Arbitrage Pricing Theory
- Risk management failures
- Case studies
- Ethics
- Value at Risk (VaR) o
Definition and methods o
Delta normal valuation, full revaluation, historical simulation,
Monte Carlo simulation methods
- Applications of VaR for market, credit and operational risk
- VaR of linear and non linear derivatives
- VaR for fixed income securities with embedded options
- Structured Monte Carlo
- Term structure of interest rates
- Discount factors, arbitrage, yield curves
- Bond prices, spot rates, forward rates
- DV01, duration and convexity, duration based hedging
- Credit rating agencies, credit ratings
- Credit transition matrices
- Sovereign risk and country risk evaluation
- Binomial trees
- Black Scholes Merton model
- Greeks
- Stress testing and scenario analysis
- Volatility smiles and volatility
term structures
- Exotic options
- Duration and convexity of fixed income securities
- Term structure models
- Backtesting VaR
- Mapping financial instruments to risk factors
- Expected shortfall and coherent risk measures
- Extreme value theory
- Copulas and tail dependence
- Mortgages and mortgage-backed securities o
Underwriting mortgages / Prepayment models o
Risks in mortgages and mortgage-backed securities o
Valuation of mortgage-backed securities
- Definition of risk capital
- Allocation of risk capital across the firm
- Firm-wide risk measurement and management
- Correlations across market, credit and operational
- Evaluating the performance of risk management
- Regulation and the Basel II Accord o
Minimum capital requirements o
Credit concentration risk o
Liquidity risk o Stress testing
- Implementation and model risk
- Liquidity risk
- Economic capital and risk aggregation
- Portfolio construction
- Risk decomposition and performance
- Risk budgeting / Setting risk limits
- Hedge fund risk management
- Risk-return metrics specific to hedge
- Risks of specific strategies (fixed-long/short-market neutral,
macro,
- Asset illiquidity, valuation, and risk
- The use of leverage and derivatives
- Measuring exposures to risk factors
- Pension fund risk management
- Causes and consequences of the
current crisis
- Subprime mortgage design
- Mortgages and securitization, subprime CDOs
- Liquidity crises
- Use and limitations of VaR
- Hedge funds and systemic risk