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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790177003321

Autore

Coleman Thomas Sedgwick <1955->

Titolo

Quantitative risk management [[electronic resource] ] : a practical guide to financial risk / / Thomas S. Coleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey, : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2012]

ISBN

1-280-58912-4

9786613618955

1-118-26077-5

1-118-22210-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (578 p.)

Collana

Wiley finance series ; ; 669

Classificazione

BUS027000

Disciplina

658.155

Soggetti

Financial services industry - Risk management

Financial risk management

Capital market

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT: A Practical Guide to Financial Risk; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: Managing Risk; CHAPTER 1: Risk Management versus Risk Measurement; CHAPTER 2: Risk, Uncertainty, Probability, and Luck; CHAPTER 3: Managing Risk; CHAPTER 4: Financial Risk Events; CHAPTER 5: Practical Risk Techniques; CHAPTER 6: Uses and Limitations of Quantitative Techniques; PART TWO: Measuring Risk; CHAPTER 7: Introduction to Quantitative Risk Measurement; CHAPTER 8: Risk and Summary Measures: Volatility and VaR; CHAPTER 9: Using Volatility and VaR

CHAPTER 10: Portfolio Risk Analytics and ReportingCHAPTER 11: Credit Risk; CHAPTER 12: Liquidity and Operational Risk; CHAPTER 13: Conclusion; About the Companion Web Site; References; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

State of the art risk management techniques and practices-supplemented with interactive analytics All too often risk management books focus on risk measurement details without taking a broader view. Quantitative Risk Management delivers a synthesis of common sense management together with the cutting-edge tools of modern



theory. This book presents a road map for tactical and strategic decision making designed to control risk and capitalize on opportunities. Most provocatively it challenges the conventional wisdom that ""risk management"" is or ever should be delegated to a sepa