Risk Management
Comprehensive chapters on
market, credit and operation risk
Features an integrated VaR
framework
Hedging strategies for
reducing risk
Exploding global competition,
increasing regulations, and the ever-changing product mix of innovative, intricate
derivative and securitization products have pushed risk management to the forefront of
today's financial landscape. Corporate and banking executives trying to make sense of this
environment often find themselves wasting valuable time searching for details and actually
creating risk through innocent misinterpretations or misguided hedging strategies.
The authors consolidate the
entire field of risk management from policies, to methodologies as well as data and
technological infrastructure. Risk Management covers investment and hedging strategies
that include innovative derivatives, credit risk, and securitization techniques into one
all-inclusive, easily accessible reference. Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, and Robert Mark
seasoned finance professionals with an unmatched breadth of experience covering banking,
corporate, and academic risk management applications walk you through risk management with
the focus on concrete, results-oriented tips and analysis.
The result is, quite frankly,
the only reference you'll need for a quick, thorough understanding of today's complex
financial risk management challenges. Look to the expert analysis and proven suggestions
in Risk Management for a no-nonsense overview of:
Integrated Risk Management
How to understand and develop the necessary tools for measuring and managing all of your
firm's risk in terms of a common unit
Regulatory Environment Group
of 30 (G-30) policy recommendations, BIS 1998 and how to qualify to use internal models in
lieu of the standardized approach proposed by the Basle Committee
Capital Attribution How to
attribute economic capital as a function of risk
Practical Measurement Issues
Utilizing historical, implied, and stochastic models to measure volatility, plus helpful
summaries of measuring correlations and the yield curve
Future Considerations Review
of the potential impact of BIS 2000+ recommendations. Insights into the future evolution
of risk management practices
Never before have the fields
of banking and corporate financial risk management been as complicated and the stakes as
unyielding. Whether used as an essential resource for institutional financial risk
management, a comprehensive text for courses concentrating on bank risk management, or
simply as an unprecedented reference covering every important aspect of the discipline,
Risk Management will bring you up-to-date on an area that promises to increase in
importance as we enter the uncharted waters of the 21st century.
About the Authors
Michel Crouhy, Ph.D., is
Senior Vice President, Global Analytics, Risk Management Division at Canadian Imperial
Bank of Commerce (CIBC), where he is in charge of market and credit risk analytics. He has
published extensively in academic journals, is currently associate editor of both Journal
of Derivatives and Journal of Banking and Finance, and is on the editorial board of
Journal of Risk.
Dan Galai, Ph.D., is the Abe
Gray Professor of Finance and Business Administration at the Hebrew University and a
principal of Sigma P.C.M. Dr. Galai has consulted for the Chicago Board Options Exchange
and the American Stock Exchange and published numerous articles in leading journals. He
was the winner of the First Annual Pomeranze Prize for excellence in options research
presented by the CBOE.
Robert Mark, Ph.D., is Senior
Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at CIBC reporting to the Chairman and CEO
of the bank. Dr. Mark is a member of the Senior Executive Team (SET) of CIBC. In 1998, he
was named Financial Risk Manager of the Year by the Global Association of Risk
Professionals (GARP).
716 pages