Fundamentals of Risk Management

Fundamentals of Risk Management

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CPE CREDITS
7.0
No advance preparation required.
Students will be able to:
  • Identify major causes of risk (credit, market, operations, liquidity, legal)
  • Compare and contrast recent risk events
  • Define risk management
  • Evaluate roles and responsibilities of Chief Risk Officers and risk management committees
  • Discuss the evolution of risk management instruments
  • Identify risk based supervision responsibility of central bank examiner
  • Analyze influence of Basel II on risk management
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Day 1
Introduction
  • Identify players in financial markets
  • Define risk
  • Identify risk metrics
  • Evaluate causes of recent financial crises

Sources & Types of Risk

  • Define financial risks: credit, market, operational, liquidity, legal, strategic
  • Identify courses of risk
  • Compare and contrast interrelatedness of risks

Risk Management Defined

  • Define risk management
  • Identify phases of risk management
  • Evaluate risk managers' setting of philosophy, policies and procedures

Risk Manager

  • Define risk manager's role
  • Understand risk manager's application of risk management
  • Identify recent changes in global risk management

Hedging

  • Define hedging
  • Identify hedging tools
  • Compare and contrast advantages and risks of hedging instruments

Role of Central Banks and Regulators

  • Identify regulators and other actors that influence risk management
  • Compare and contrast central banks' compliance-based versus risk-based supervisions approach
  • Understand role of BIS, ISDA, and rating agencies

Clients who register for this course will receive a complimentary 4-month subscription to FT.com. The Financial Times is the world's most respected financial newspaper, providing a broad assessment on finance, business and the industrial sector. The move to the electronic version follows an ongoing review of our environmental responsibilities as a global business and as part of the Pearson group. FT.com also has features that are not available in hard copy, such as: Special Reports, Alphaville, editor blogs, education sections and much more! Subscriptions will start within 6-8 weeks of the start of class and are limited to one subscription per client. (Please note: as of May 1, 2011, the electronic subscription replaces the hard-copy 3-month Financial Times subscription.)

Lunch is included for all students taking day classes.