Financial Risk Management

Course Contents, Concepts and Issues

• Risk: A Working Hypothesis
• Defining Risk - Generally
• Financial Risk: A Plausible Definition
• Financial Risk in an Organisational Setting
• Financial Risk and 'Market Dynamics'
• Liquidity Risk
• Operating Risk
• Fraud Risk
• Settlement Risk
• Corporate Strategy and Risk Management
• The Currency Derivatives Market

Financial Risk and Unpredictability: Uncontrollable Environmental Issues

• Asset Behaviour and Pricing Implications
• Credit and Counterparty Risk
• The Legal and Political Risk Environments
• Risk as an Economic Factor
• Technological Risk Factor
• Risk associated with Socio-Cultural Change

Financial Risk Settings: A Meta-Analytical Exploration

• Risk in Financial Institutions
• Banking Risk
• Risk and the Currency Market
• Risk and the Equity Market
• Futures Market Risk

Financial Exposure As Risk

• Economic Exposure
• Transaction Exposure
• Translation Exposure
• Calculating Risk in Financial Exposure

Risk Management: A Conceptual and Statistical Meta-Analysis

• Conducting A Risk Assessment
• Managing Risk with Forward Contracts
• Financial methods of measuring Risk
• Quantifying financial risk
• Some Qualitative Approaches To Financial Risk Assessment
• Managing The Interest Rate Derivatives Market
• Managing equity risk
• Identifying and measuring Currency Risk
• Managing Financial Exposure Risk
• Managing currency Risk
• Sensitivity Analysis As Risk Management
• Managing Risk with SWAPS:
• Statistical Analysis as a Risk Management Instrument
• Interpreting Statistical Data
• Mean and Statistical Mean
• Variance and Standard Deviation
• Probability and Normal Distribution
• Degrees of Confidence
• Correlation and auto-correlation
• Calculating statistics from actual data
• Understanding Statistical Significance
• Making Sense of Chi-squared Distribution
• Using Software to analyse data
• Using PESTEL as a Tool to Risk Management