Course Outline
 

Course Title

 

Introduction to Market Risk Measurement

Course Category

   Online
Target Audience  

Financial professionals and executives who need to understand more about how market risk is measured, assessed and managed in a diversified portfolio of financial instruments (equity, fixed-income, currency, commodity). The course contains many detailed examples, interactive equations, and remediated self-assessment tools. Students preparing for the FRMTM exam will also find the course useful for exam preparation, and the course includes examples of questions from recent FRMTM exams.

Continuing Education

 

4 MX CE Credits

Prerequistes

  A basic understanding of probabilities is recommended (a review is included in the course), and a general background in finance.
Objectives   This course provides a basic description of the main tools employed by risk managers to measure financial risks. You will learn:
- What is market risk and how risk measurement systems have evolved over time.
- How to compute Value at Risk (VAR) to measure financial risk.
- How to choose the confidence level and the horizon for reporting a VAR number.
- How to build a VAR measurement system.
- What are the drawbacks of VAR measures, and alternative methods.
- How to stress-test portfolios to identify extreme losses.
Subject by level  

Topics  

Section 1  

Duration   This online course is equivalent to an in-class course with a duration of 4 hours. Online courses are self-paced, and the time necessary to complete each course will vary with each student
Time to comple the course   Six months (user account can be deactivated after this period)
Date   Available now

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