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The Practice of Risk Management

Contents

Risk management in context

1. A day in the life of a risk manager

2. The beginnings of risk management

3. The framework for firmwide risk management

4. A taxonomy of market risk

The toolkit for measuring market risk

5. The challenges of risk measurement

6. Stress testing

7. VaR

8. Scenario analysis

9. Specific risk

Risk management in the real world

10. The risk management function

11. Risk analysis and reporting

12. Backtesting

13. Inventory pricing and price verification

14. Derivatives models and variation

15. The flow of risk information

16. Risk management for other users

The changing world of risk management

17. The regulation of financial firms

18. Reporting and disclosure

19. Managing risk capital

20. Life in the year 2008

This is an excellent book. Jointly written by a team of professionals from SBC Warburg and another team from Goldman Sachs, it is a book by practitioners for practitioners. Focusing on market risk, the authors go behind the scenes to see how risk management really works in practice. Read a chronicle of a day in the life of a risk manager. Review a "hot-spots" risk report. Struggle with the challenges of validating a derivatives pricing model. Report a limit violation to senior management ... What is wonderful about this book is how practical it is!

For risk managers in financial firms, the book is essential reading. Indeed, I strongly recommend it for anyone involved in any aspect of market risk management.

For related books, see sections:

Risk Management - General

Risk Management - Market Risk

Financial Engineering - Basic Theory

Other Topics - Trading

 

 

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