Advanced Financial Risk Management - Van Deventer, Donald R. / Imai, Kenji / Mesler, Mark
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An in-depth look at financial risk management
Advanced Financial Risk Management integrates interest rate risk, credit risk, foreign exchange risk, and capital allocation using a consistent risk management approach. It explains, in detailed, yet understandable terms, the analytics of these issues from A to Z. Written by experienced risk managers, this book bridges the gap between the idealized assumptions used for valuation and the realities that must be reflected in management actions. It covers everything from the basics of present value, forward rates, and interest rate compounding to…mehr

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An in-depth look at financial risk management
Advanced Financial Risk Management integrates interest rate risk, credit risk, foreign exchange risk, and capital allocation using a consistent risk management approach. It explains, in detailed, yet understandable terms, the analytics of these issues from A to Z. Written by experienced risk managers, this book bridges the gap between the idealized assumptions used for valuation and the realities that must be reflected in management actions. It covers everything from the basics of present value, forward rates, and interest rate compounding to the wide variety of alternative term structure models.
Donald R. Van Deventer (Hawaii) founded the Kamakura Corporation in April 1990 and is currently President. In 2003, he was voted into the Risk Hall of Fame for having made a profound contribution to the field of risk management. Kenji Imai (Hawaii) heads Software Development for Kamakura and participates in selected Japan-related financial advisory assignments. Mark Mesler (Hawaii) heads the information production for Kamakura Risk Information Services.

AUS DEM INHALT:
Introduction.
Risk Management: Definitions and Objectives.
1. A risk management synthesis: Market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and asset and liability management.
2. Risk, return and performance.
3. Capital regulation, risk management and performance.
Risk Management Techniques Interest Rate Analytics.
4. Interest rate risk introduction and overview.
5. Interest rate risk mismatching and hedging.
6. Traditional interest rate risk analysis: Gap analysis and simulation models.
7. Fixed income mathematics: the basic tools.
8. Yield curve smoothing.
9. Duration and convexity.
10. Duration as a term structure model.
11. Vasicek and extended Vasicek models.
12. Alternative Term Structure models.
13. Estimating the parameters of term structure models.
Credit Risk Models.
14. An introduction to credit risk: Using market signals in loan pricing and performance measurement.
15. Traditional approaches to credit risk: ratings and transition matrices.
16. Structural credit models: An introduction to the Merton approach.
17. Reduced form credit models.
18. Credit spread fitting and modeling.
Interest Rate and Credit Model Testing.
19. Tests of credit models using historical data.
20. Tests of credit models using market data.
21. Tests of interest rate models using a credit risk approach.
Risk Management Applications, Instrument by Instrument.
22. Valuing credit risky bonds.
23. Credit derivatives and collateralized debt obligations.
24. Risk-neutral interest rates and European options on bonds.
25. Forward and futures contracts.
26. European options on forward and futures contracts.
27. Caps and floors.
28. Interest rate swaps and swaptions.
29. Exotic swap and option structures.
30. American fixed-income options.
31. Irrational exercise of fixed income options.
32. Mortgage-backed securities.
33. Non-maturity deposits.
34. Foreign exchange markets: a term structure model approach.
35. Impact of Collateral on valuation models.
36. Pricing and valuing revolving credit and other facilities.
37. Modeling common stock and convertible bonds on a default-adjusted basis.
38. Valuing insurance policies and pension obligations.
Portfolio Strategy and Risk Management.
39. Risk management objectives revisited at the portfolio and company level.
40. Liquidity analysis and management.
41. Performance measurement: Plus alpha vs. transfer pricing.
42. Managing institutional default risk and "safety and soundness.
43. Information technology considerations.
44. Shareholder value creation and destruction.
Autorenporträt
Donald R. Van Deventer founded the Kamakura Corporation in April 1990 and is currently President. In 2003, he was voted into the Risk Hall of Fame for having made a profound contribution to the field of risk management. He has been involved in financial advisory assignments involving both risk management and mergers and acquisitions, for the municipalities affected in the Orange County bankruptcy, in a major derivatives dispute between JPMorgan and a Korean securities firm, Bank Negara Malaysia, ITT Financial Corporation and many other leading institutions. Prior to founding Kamakura Corporation, he was Senior Vice President of in the investment banking department of Lehman Brothers (then Shearson Lehman Hutton). From 1982 to 1987, he was the treasurer for First Interstate Bancorp in LA, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics, a joint degree of the Harvard University Department of Economics and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.