Essential Mathematics for Market Risk Management
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Essential Mathematics for Market Risk Management

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Essential Mathematics for Market Risk Management

About this book

Everything you need to know in order to manage risk effectively within your organization

You cannot afford to ignore the explosion in mathematical finance in your quest to remain competitive. This exciting branch of mathematics has very direct practical implications: when a new model is tested and implemented it can have an immediate impact on the financial environment.

With risk management top of the agenda for many organizations, this book is essential reading for getting to grips with the mathematical story behind the subject of financial risk management. It will take you on a journey—from the early ideas of risk quantification up to today's sophisticated models and approaches to business risk management.

To help you investigate the most up-to-date, pioneering developments in modern risk management, the book presents statistical theories and shows you how to put statistical tools into action to investigate areas such as the design of mathematical models for financial volatility or calculating the value at risk for an investment portfolio.

  • Respected academic author Simon Hubbert is the youngest director of a financial engineering program in the U.K. He brings his industry experience to his practical approach to risk analysis
  • Captures the essential mathematical tools needed to explore many common risk management problems
  • Website with model simulations and source code enables you to put models of risk management into practice
  • Plunges into the world of high-risk finance and examines the crucial relationship between the risk and the potential reward of holding a portfolio of risky financial assets

This book is your one-stop-shop for effective risk management.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781119979524
eBook ISBN
9781119953029
Edition
1
Subtopic
Insurance

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1: Introduction
  8. Chapter 2: Applied Linear Algebra for Risk Managers
  9. Chapter 3: Probability Theory for Risk Managers
  10. Chapter 4: Optimization Tools
  11. Chapter 5: Portfolio Theory I
  12. Chapter 6: Portfolio Theory II
  13. Chapter 7: The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
  14. Chapter 8: Risk Factor Modelling
  15. Chapter 9: The Value at Risk Concept
  16. Chapter 10: Value at Risk under a Normal Distribution
  17. Chapter 11: Advanced Probability Theory for Risk Managers
  18. Chapter 12: A Survey of Useful Distribution Functions
  19. Chapter 13: A Crash Course on Financial Derivatives
  20. Chapter 14: Non-linear Value at Risk
  21. Chapter 15: Time Series Analysis
  22. Chapter 16: Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  23. Chapter 17: The Delta Method for Statistical Estimates
  24. Chapter 18: Hypothesis Testing
  25. Chapter 19: Statistical Properties of Financial Losses
  26. Chapter 20: Modelling Volatility
  27. Chapter 21: Extreme Value Theory
  28. Chapter 22: Simulation Models
  29. Chapter 23: Alternative Approaches to VaR
  30. Chapter 24: Backtesting
  31. References
  32. Index