application in today’s world. Thoroughly updated, the Second Edition incorporates new information regarding Stress Testing, liquidity risks, ABS’s, CDO’s, and the credit crunch of 2007.KEY TOPICS: Introduction; Banks; Insurance; Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds; Financial Instruments; How Traders Manage Their Exposures; Interest Rate Risk; Value at Risk; Volatility; Correlation and Copulas; Regulation, Basel II, and Solvency II; Market Risk VaR: Historical Simulation Approach; Market Risk VaR: Model-Building Approach; Credit Risk: Estimating Default Probabilities; Credit Risk Losses and Credit VaR; ABSs, CDOs, and the Credit Crunch of 2007; Scenario Analysis and Stress Testing; Operational Risk; Liquidity Risk; Model Risk; Economic Capital and RAROC; Risk Management Mistakes to avoid; Compounding Frequencies and Interest Rates; Zero Rtes, Forward Rates, and Zero-Coupon Yield Curves; Valuing Forward and Futures Contracts; Valuing Swaps; Valuing European Options; Valuing American Options; Taylor Series Expansions; Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues; Principal Components Analysis; Manipulation of Credit Transition Matrices. A useful reference for financial professionals.

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