The Essentials of Risk Management, Second Edition

The definitive guide to quantifying risk vs. return--fully updated to reveal the newest, most effective innovations in financial risk management since the 2008 financial crisis

Written for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure. It provides the latest methods for:

• Measuring and transferring credit risk
• Increasing risk-management transparency
• Implementing an organization-wide Enterprise risk Management (ERM) approach

Michel Crouhy is head of research and development at NATIXIS and the founder and president of the NATIXIS Foundation for Quantitative Research.
Dan Galai is the Abe Gray Professor of Finance and Business Administration at the School of Business Administration, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Robert Mark is the Founding Chief Executive Officer of Black Diamond Risk which provides corporate governance, risk management consulting, risk software tools, and transaction services.

Dr. Michel Crouhy is Senior Vice President, Global Analytics, Market Risk Management Division at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Prior to this he was a Professor of Finance at HEC. He has been a visiting professor at Wharton School where he received his Ph.D. He has extensively published in academic journals and is also the associate editor of the Journal of Derivatives, the Journal of Banking and Finance. He is also on the editorial board of the new Journal of Risk.

Dr. Dan Galai is the Abe Gray Professor of Finance and Business Administration at Hebrew University. He has been a visiting professor of Finance at INSEAD, and also has taught at UCLA and the University of Chicago where he received his Ph.D. He has consulted for the Chicago Board of Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has published numerous articles in leading business and finance journals and was the winner of the First Annual Pomeranze Prize for excellence in options research presented by the CBOE.