The Essentials of Risk Management, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

The Essentials of Risk Management, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, Robert Mark
Released December 2013
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 9780071821155

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Book description

The essential guide to quantifying risk vs. return has been updated to reveal the newest, most effective innovations in financial risk management

  • Written for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps readers meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of their company’s risk exposure
  • Provides the latest methods for measuring and transferring credit risk, increase risk-management transparency, and implement an organization-wide Enterprise risk Management (ERM) approach
  • The authors are renowned figures in risk management: Crouhy heads research and development at NATIXIS; Galai is the Abe Gray Professor of Finance and Business Asdministration at Hebrew University; and Mark is the founding CEO of Black Diamond Risk

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE ESSENTIALS OF RISK MANAGEMENT, SECOND EDITION
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CONTENTS
  5. Foreword
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction to the Second Edition: Reforming Risk Management for the Post-Crisis Era
  8. 1. Risk Management: A Helicopter View
    1. 1.1 Typology of Risk Exposures
  9. 2. Corporate Risk Management: A Primer
  10. 3. Banks and Their Regulators: The Post-Crisis Regulatory Framework
    1. 3.1 Basel I
    2. 3.2 The 1996 Market Risk Amendment
    3. 3.3 Basel II and Minimum Capital Requirements for Credit Risk
    4. 3.4 Basel 2.5: Enhancements to the Basel II Framework
    5. 3.5 Contingent Convertible Bonds
  11. 4. Corporate Governance and Risk Management
  12. 5. A User-Friendly Guide to the Theory of Risk and Return
  13. 6. Interest Rate Risk and Hedging with Derivative Instruments
  14. 7. Measuring Market Risk: Value-at-Risk, Expected Shortfall, and Similar Metrics
  15. 8. Asset/Liability Management
  16. 9. Credit Scoring and Retail Credit Risk Management
  17. 10. Commercial Credit Risk and the Rating of Individual Credits
    1. 10.1 Definitions of Key Financial Ratios
  18. 11. Quantitative Approaches to Credit Portfolio Risk and Credit Modeling
    1. 11.1 The Basic Idea of the Reduced Form Model
  19. 12. The Credit Transfer Markets—and Their Implications
    1. 12.1 Why the Rating of CDOs by Rating Agencies Was Misleading
  20. 13. Counterparty Credit Risk: CVA, DVA, and FVA
  21. 14. Operational Risk
  22. 15. Model Risk
  23. 16. Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis
    1. 16.1 The 2013 Dodd-Frank Severely Adverse Scenarios
  24. 17. Risk Capital Attribution and Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurement
  25. Epilogue: Trends in Risk Management
  26. Index

Product information

  • Title: The Essentials of Risk Management, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
  • Author(s): Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, Robert Mark
  • Release date: December 2013
  • Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
  • ISBN: 9780071821155