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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965668703321

Titolo

The world of risk management / / editor, H. Gifford Fong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, NJ ; ; London, : World Scientific Pub., c2006

ISBN

9786611372590

9781281372598

1281372595

9789812700865

9812700862

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Classificazione

85.30

Altri autori (Persone)

FongH. Gifford

Disciplina

332.6

Soggetti

Investments

Derivative securities

Portfolio management

Asset-liability management

Risk management

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.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Introduction; Practitioner's Digest; Chapter 1 Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie; Chapter 2 Asset/Liability Management and Enterprise Risk Management of an Insurer Thomas S. Y. Ho; Chapter 3 It's 11 pm-Do You Know Where Your Liquidity Is? The Mean-Variance-Liquidity Frontier AndrewW. Lo, Constantin Petrov and Martin Wierzbicki; Chapter 4 Time Diversification Jack L. Treynor; Chapter 5 A Practical Framework for Portfolio Choice Richard O. Michaud

Chapter 6 A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method for Derivative Pricing and Risk Assessment Sanjiv R. Das and Alistair SinclairChapter 7 Active Risk and Information Ratio Edward Qian and Ronald Hua; Chapter 8 The Year-End Price of Risk in a Market for Liquidity Mark D. Griffiths and Drew B.Winters; Chapter 9 Resampled Frontiers versus Diffuse Bayes: An Experiment Harry M. Markowitz and Nilufer Usmen; Chapter 10 Fund Managers May Cause Their Benchmarks to be Priced "Risks"



Michael Stutzer

Sommario/riassunto

Risk management is a foundation discipline for the prudent conduct of investment management. Being effective requires ongoing evolution and adaptation. In The World of Risk Management, an expert team of contributors that include Nobel Prize laureates Robert C Merton and Harry M Markowitz addresses the important issues arising in the practice of risk management. A common thread among these distinguished articles is a rigorous theoretical or conceptual basis. Illustrated with full color figures throughout, they discuss topics ranging from broad policy considerations to detailed how-to prescripti