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 Pre-Course Online Study
Market Risk 1
Market Risk 2
Credit Risk 1
Credit Risk 2
Operational Risk
 
 Post-Course Online Study
Understanding and Managing Swap Risk
Option Volatility, Pricing and Risk Management
Risk Management, the Price Sensitivity of Options & the Greeks
   
 
This course will provide an overview of some key areas in financial risk management techniques and strategies. Delegates will gain an insight into some of the most important new topics in risk management and how to apply some of the latest modelling and simulation techniques in market, credit and operational risk management. The course will cover topics including advanced equity derivatives, capital structure arbitrage, portfolio credit risk models, and operational risk, including some of the latest Basel II developments.
 
  • Overview
    • Outline of course contents and methods
    • Taxonomy of risks

      Group discussion: Russian bankruptcy

  • Introduction to Equity Derivatives
    • Recap on basic derivatives pricing theory
    • Greek sensitivities
    • Volatility smile and the term structure of volatility
    • Implications of the volatility smile for hedging
    • Microstructure of delivered volatility
    • Advantages and disadvantages of vega hedging and volatility limits

  • Advanced Equity Derivative Pricing
    • Volatility swaps
    • Introduction to local volatility models
    • Hedging in local vol models

      Group discussion: Volatility models and methods

  • Hedge Simulation Models
    • Importance of practical hedge simulation
    • Demonstration of hedge simulation model

  • Capital Structure Arbitrage
    • Merton model of corporate structure
    • Miller-Modigliani theorem
    • Implementations of the Merton model
    • Hedging equity with debt

      Group discussion: Using capital structure arbitrage
      ideas
  • Introduction to Credit Portfolios
    • Behaviour of portfolios of credit risk
    • Tranching credit risk portfolios
    • Models of credit risk: Actuarial approaches, credit risk+ and KMV
    • Risk premiums and risk neutrality

  • Structuring Tranched Credit Products
    • Waterfalls
    • Credit enhancement via spread accounts
    • Impact of default correlation on pricing
    • Copula approaches

  • Country Risk
    • Different approaches to measuring and managing country risk

      Group discussion: Country risk

  • Operational Risk and Contingent Capital
    • Overview of operational risk
    • Basel II operational risk proposals
    • Contingent capital
    • Risk-linked funding
    • The treasurer’s toolkit

      Group discussion: Practical operational risk mitigation

  • Questions and Answer Forum
 
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