Financial Risk Management: A Practitioner's Guide to Managing Market and Credit Risk (with CD-ROM) - Hardcover

Allen, Steve L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471219770 ISBN 13: 9780471219774

Publisher: Wiley, 2003

Synopsis

Financial Risk Management covers the strategies, principles, and measurement techniques necessary to measure and manage financial risk. With a focus on management perspective, this book explores real-world issues such as model validation, risk measurement, valuation methodologies, and much more. Self-contained Excel spreadsheets are included on the companion CD-ROM.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Financial risk management as a field of study and practice continues to rapidly evolve. But despite the long list of books written about this subject, most focus mainly on statistical risk measurement techniques. Financial Risk Management: A Practitioner’s Guide to Managing Market and Credit Risk breaks this mold by providing a comprehensive overview of the entire field of risk management.

Steve Allen, Managing Director in charge of risk methodology at JPMorgan Chase, offers an insider’s view of financial risk management and covers the strategies, principles, and measurement techniques necessary to manage and measure financial risk. Focusing on the management of those risks that can be successfully quantified, Allen explores real-world issues such as proper mark-to-market valuation of trading positions and determination of needed reserves against valuation uncertainty, the structuring of limits to control risk taking, and a review of mathematical models and how they can contribute to risk control.

Financial Risk Management is divided into three equally informative parts, each filled with in-depth insights and valuable advice gleaned from years of risk management experience. Part one provides a general background to financial risk management and illustrates how risk arises in financial firms. You’ll discover key concepts used to manage risk and learn–through some of the most prominent financial disasters of the past twenty-five years–how to avoid failures in risk management. Part two examines the methodology of market risk management and discusses its application to forward risk, spot risk, vanilla options risk, and exotic options risk. As each type is discussed, a detailed analysis is given of models used to price these risks as well as how these models can be used to measure and control risk. After these issues are thoroughly explored, part three of Financial Risk Management rounds out the discussion with lessons on the management of portfolio risk. Here, you will gain a firm understanding of value-at-risk (VaR), stress testing, and management of portfolio credit risk.

With the communication skills of an academic instructor and the hands-on experience of a market practitioner, Steve Allen has made understanding the field of risk management both informative and engaging. To assist the learning process, Allen has also designed some original Excel® spreadsheets (contained on the companion CD-ROM) to help you develop an intuitive and detailed feel for risk measurement and reporting. Financial Risk Management is the definitive source for practical guidance on managing market and credit risk. With this book at your side, you can take your risk management skills to the next level.

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Praise for Financial Risk Management

"Key material on how risks can be isolated, quantified, and managed from a top risk management practitioner."
–John Hull, Maple Financial Chair in Derivatives and Risk Management, and Director, Bonham Centre for Finance, University of Toronto

"Steve Allen’s book is an excellent read for both seasoned risk professionals and students. He has done a wonderful job of making a complex topic understandable and provided the necessary tools to help others develop and sharpen their own intuition about risk exposure and how to manage it. Theory about risk management is always interesting, but even more refreshing is to see how risk management is performed by those, like Allen, with years of experience in the trenches."
–Leslie Rahl, President, Capital Market Risk Advisors

"A very practical and deep approach to the problems of financial risk management."
–Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Empirica LLC, author of Fooled by Randomness and Dynamic Hedging

"Allen’s book is a treasure-trove of material and an invaluable resource for any professional seeking to understand modern risk management. It begins with basic concepts and builds carefully to the practical and theoretical ideas necessary for dealing with the complexities of the most sophisticated and relevant financial instruments today."
–Neil Chriss, Managing Director of Quantitative Strategies, SAC Capital, and author of Black-Scholes and Beyond

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0471219770
• ISBN 13: 9780471219774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288