Market Risk: Basic Level

Market Risk: Intermediate Level

Market Risk: Advanced Level

Value at Risk

 


Market Risk: Basic Level


An e-learning product that covers several basic concepts in Market Risk

 

Market Risk: Basic Level
 
Overview

This product is available in three levels viz., Basic, Intermediate and Advanced.
Topics covered at the Basic Level include:

  • Building Blocks of Market Risk
  • Financial Mathematics such as Time Value of Money
  • Statistical concepts such as Probability Distribution, Volatility, Correlation and Regression
  • Bond Pricing and Yield Analysis
  • Risk measurement concepts such as Gap Analysis, Duration Analysis, Simulation Analysis and Basis Point Value
  • The Basic Level courses are packed with interactive practical examples, calculators, and intuitive explanations that form a solid foundation for Market Risk Management
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Market Risk: Basic Level
  1. Course Level and Number of Courses
    Basic Level. Library of 8 Courses


  2. Instructional Method
    Dynamic, Interactive e-learning

  3. Recommended Background
    Familiarity with basic financial concepts
Target Audience

Every professional involved in the global financial services industry (as a provider, user, regulator or advisor of product/services, marketplace/exchange) would benefit from KESDEE’s innovative
solutions.
  • Supervisory Agencies
  • Central Banks
  • Financial Institutions
  • Commercial Banks
  • Investment Banks
  • Housing Societies/Thrifts
  • Mutual Funds
  • Brokerage Houses
  • Stock Exchanges
  • Derivatives Exchanges
  • Insurance Companies
  • Multinational Corporations
  • Accountancy Firms
  • Consultancy Firms
  • Law Firms
  • Rating Agencies
  • Multi-lateral Financial Institutions
  • Others
For purchase, contact us at
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Market Risk: Basic Level
 
Library of 8 Courses


Time taken to complete each Course:
Two - Three hours

1. Interest Rate Risk

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Types of Interest Rate Risk
  • Impact of Interest Rate Risk
  • Measuring Interest Rate Risk I
  • Measuring Interest Rate Risk II

2. Liquidity Risk

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Liquidity Measurement Systems
  • Liquidity Management
  • Practical Tools and Techniques
  • Liquidity Risk and VaR

3. Equity Risk

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Capital Asset Pricing Model
  • Measuring Equity Risk
  • Diversification and Equity Risk

4. Portfolio Risk

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Types of Risk Exposure
  • Measuring Portfolio Risk
  • Portfolio Management

5. Foreign Exchange Risk

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Regulations

6. Commodity Risk

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Commodity Market
  • Methodology

7. Regulatory Issues

  • Objectives
  • Aim of Regulation
  • Basel Accord
  • Approaches to Capital Charges

8. Value at Risk

  • Objectives
  • Risk Measures
  • Introduction
  • Value at Risk Parameters
  • Role of VaR
  • Regulators and VaR
  • Determining VaR
  • Evaluating VaR
  • Application of VaR
 

Set of 5 interactive Job Aids

  • Disclosures
  • Benchmarking Data

  • Policy Templates
  • Global Best Practices
  • Measurement Tools
Calculators in
Market Risk: Basic Level
  1. Undiversified and Diversified VaR
  2. VaR of an Equity
  3. VaR of an FRA
  4. Variance Covariance
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Market Risk: Intermediate Level


An e-learning product that covers some critical concepts in Market Risk

 

Market Risk: Intermediate Level
 
Overview

This product is available in three levels viz., Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. The Intermediate Level covers:

  • Several important topics in the industry such as Back Testing and Stress Testing that are presented with practical examples in an engaging and interactive fashion
  • A comprehensive annual survey on Value at Risk methodologies (assumptions, choice of models and the amount/type of exposure) used by leading financial institutions worldwide
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Market Risk: Intermediate Level
 
Library of 8 Courses


Time taken to complete each Course:
Two - Three hours

1. Emerging Market Risk

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Emerging Market Risks
  • Measuring Emerging Market Risk
  • Supervision in Emerging Market

2. Market Risk Models

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Parametric Models
  • Historical Simulation Models
  • Monte Carlo Simulation Models
  • Value at Risk Implementation

3. Stress Testing

  • Objectives
  • Need for Stress Testing
  • Incorporating into Market Risk Models
  • Implementation
  • Evaluating Stress Tests

4. Supervisory Requirements

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Backtesting
  • Supervision

5. Risk Management Systems

  • Objectives
  • Choosing a Risk Solution
  • Algorithmics
  • RiskMetrics
  • Askari
  • SunGard Trading and Risk Systems
  • Financial Engineering Associates

6. Case Study – Orange County

  • Objectives
  • History
  • Crisis
  • Analyzing through Measures

7. Case Study – Barings Bank

  • Objectives
  • Kobe Earthquake and its fallout
  • Trading Mechanics
  • Applications of Value at Risk

8. Case Study – Metallgesellshaft

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Hedging Alternatives
  • Analysis of MGRM’s Methods
  • Lessons Learnt
 

Set of 5 interactive Job Aids

  • Benchmarking Data
  • Disclosures
  • Global Best Practices
  • Measurement Tools
  • Policy Templates
Calculators in
Market Risk: Intermediate Level
  1. Undiversified and Diversified VaR
  2. VaR of an Equity
  3. VaR of an FRA
  4. Variance Covariance
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Market Risk: Advanced Level


An e-learning product that covers advanced concepts in Market Risk

 

Market Risk: Advanced Level
 
Overview

This product is available in three levels viz., Basic, Intermediate and Advanced.
Topics covered at the Advanced Level include:

  • An in-depth coverage of Advanced Market Risk Models, Statistical Models, Stress Testing & Scenario Analysis, and Risk-adjusted Performance Measurement
  • Complex theories and concepts that are presented in a simple and
    easy-to-understand manner with practice exercises, calculators and other interactive features
The three courses on Market Risk draw on real-life case studies extensively. The last course in each level includes a comprehensive and exclusive discussion of Case Studies.
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Market Risk: Advanced Level
 
Library of 4 Courses


Time taken to complete each Course:
Two - Three hours

1. Description of Advanced VaR models

  • Objectives
  • New forms of VaR
  • DelVaR
  • Advances in Monte Carlo Simulation
  • Variance reduction techniques in Monte Carlo Simulation

2. Advanced Measuring Volatility and Correlation

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Advanced Volatility Models
  • Advanced Correlation Models

3. Advanced Scenario Analysis and Stress Tests

  • Objectives
  • Aggregate Stress Tests
  • Maximum Loss Approach
  • Extreme Value Theory
  • Systematic Testing

4. Risk Adjusted Performance Measurement

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Measuring Risk Capital
  • Capital Allocation
 

Set of 5 interactive Job Aids

  • Benchmarking Data
  • Disclosures
  • Global Best Practices
  • Measurement Tools
  • Policy Templates
Calculators in
Market Risk: Advanced Level
  1. Jensen's Measure
  2. Sharpe's Measure
  3. Treynor's Measure
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Value at Risk


Library of 16 courses providing an in-depth understanding of
Value at risk and its applications.

The themes of this product are:

  • VaR as an integral part of risk management
  • VaR as a measurement tool
  • VaR to improve performance

 

Value at Risk
Overview
Value at risk is vital for banks, securities firms, commodity and energy merchants, and other trading organizations to be able to track their portfolios' market risk. It is a measure used by financial practitioners to quantify risk of a portfolio. The Course introduces the same and provides an up-to-date working knowledge of all aspects of VaR analysis, including the latest VaR models in theory and practice.
 
After completing this course you will be able to:
  • Define VAR and explain how it is used to quantify risk
  • Measure Value at Risk using various methods
  • Familiarize yourself with the profile of major vendors of risk management systems available in the market
  • Understand the benefits of Stress Testing as a complement to VaR
  • Understand and apply advanced volatility and correlation models such as GARCH and EMWA
  • Learn from the failures of Barings Bank, Orange County and Metallgesellschaft
  • Apply VaR into the context of managing capital and making strategic decisions such as capital allocation
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Value at Risk
 
Library of 16 Courses


Time taken to complete each Course:
Two - Three hours

1. Review of Statistical Concepts

  • The various statistical measures viz., measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion
  • The statistical relationship between the standard deviation and confidence intervals for normal distributions
  • The concept of correlation and volatility and the methods to calculate them

2. Value at Risk-I

  • The concept of Value at Risk
  • The concept of trading and banking book
  • The various methodologies of estimating VaR and their strengths and weaknesses
  • The comparison between the strength and limitation of VaR


3. Value at Risk-II

  • The computation of VaR of foreign exchange spot, foreign exchange options positions, common shares/stocks, fixed income portfolio including portfolio
  • The various applications of VaR


4. Application of Analytical Techniques

  • The framework of the analytical techniques - gap, duration, simulation and value at risk
  • The concept and assumption under each techniques
  • The comparison and analysis of each techniques across various parameters
  • The application of techniques with real life case studies


5. Regulatory Issues

  • How market risk can be regulated
  • The purpose of regulatory capital
  • The various approaches applied to capital charges


6. Market Risk-Models

  • The various methods to measure value at risk such as parametric, historical simulation and monte carlo simulation
  • The comparison among the various methods according to their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages
  • The process of value at risk implementation


7. Stress Testing

  • The concept of stress testing as a complimentary tool to value at risk analysis
  • The creation of hypothetical and historical scenarios
  • The implementation of stress test scenarios into market risk modeling
  • The growing use of stress testing to risk managers


8. Back Testing

  • The technique of backtesting
  • The different types of backtesting


9. Risk Management Systems

  • The important steps involved in the choice of risk management software vendor
  • The main software solution vendors; the products they offer and their salient features


10. Case Study - Orange County

11. Case Study - Barings Bank

12. Case Study - Matellgesellschaft

13. Description of Advanced VaR Models

  • The various emerging forms of VaR viz., Component VaR and Del VaR
  • The impact on individual trades on Total VaR using these forms
  • The advancements in Monte Carlo Simulation
  • The variance reduction techniques employed for Monte Carlo Simulation


14. Advanced Measuring Volatility and Correlation

  • The concept of volatility and volatility clustering
  • The conditional volatility models viz., Exponential Moving Average approach and GARCH
  • The importance of time errors and the impact of crashes on correlation and its effect on VaR calculation


15. Advanced Scenario Analysis and Stress Tests

  • The application of stress testing to a group of reporting firms through aggregation
  • The various techniques like Maximum Loss and Extreme Value Theory
  • How systematic stress testing is used with the help of stress test matrices


16. Risk Adjusted Performance Measurement

  • The concept and need for risk adjusted performance measurement
  • Risk capital and details of the measures for risk capital viz., revenue (or earnings) volatility, Earnings at Risk (EaR), and asset volatility - Value at Risk (VaR)
  • The importance of capital allocation in risk adjusted performance measurement and the factors that affect them

 

 

Set of 5 interactive Job Aids

  • Disclosures
  • Benchmarking Data
  • Policy Templates
  • Measurement Tools
  • Global Best Practices
Calculators in
Value at Risk
  1. Duration
  2. Confidence Level for a Given Standard Deviation
  3. Standard Deviation for a Given Confidence Level
  4. Value at Risk Variance –two asset portfolio
  5. VaR for Required Period and Confidence Level
  6. Undiversified and Diversified VaR
  7. VaR of Equities
  8. VaR of an FRA
  9. Jensen’s Measure
  10. Sharpe's Measure
  11. Treynor's Measure
  12. Variance Co-variance
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Target Audience

Every professional involved in the global financial services industry (as a provider, user, regulator or advisor of product/services, marketplace/exchange) would benefit from KESDEE’s innovative solutions.
  • Supervisory Agencies
  • Central Banks
  • Financial Institutions
  • Commercial Banks
  • Investment Banks
  • Housing Societies/Thrifts
  • Mutual Funds
  • Brokerage Houses
  • Stock Exchanges
  • Derivatives Exchanges
  • Insurance Companies
  • Multinational Corporations
  • Accountancy Firms
  • Consultancy Firms
  • Law Firms
  • Rating Agencies
  • Multi-lateral Financial Institutions
  • Others
For purchase, contact us at
E-mail: support@prmia.org

For online purchase, visit www.prmia.org