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Beacon FinTrain

Provides an array of professional business and financial training services that stem from improving a corporate's treasury workflow —all the way to efficient, finance training programs.

Course Overview

Financial risk management is the process of identifying risks, analyzing them, and making investment decisions based on either accepting or mitigating them, the job of a finance manager is to use the available financial instruments to hedge a business against them.

Risk management is about controlling the risks an entity brings upon itself, helping the firm avoid extreme decisions that could lead to the collapse of the business.


For More Inquiries

Jihad Hassan

Senior Business Development Specialist

 +201278655721

 g.hassan@beaconfintrain.com

Jihad Hassan

Senior Business Development Specialist

 +201278655721

 g.hassan@beaconfintrain.com

Course Outcome

Define risk management, risk types, process, and financial risks.

Explain mean, variance, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis, median and interquartile range.

Differentiate between yield curves and forward curves and how these functions respond to market events.

Define what is interest rate risk and how changes in it affect the prices of fixed-income securities.

Discuss how forwards, futures, and swaps work and how they are used to manage interest rate risk.

Course Outline

Topic 1 :Methods for Financial Risk Management

A Helicopter View of Risk Management.

An Introduction to Financial Markets.

Mapping the Risk.

Hedging Operations Versus Hedging Financial Positions.

Constructing and Implementing a Strategy.

CAPM — The Arbitrage Pricing Theory.

Topic 2 :Risk Techniques and Tools

Asset-Liability Management.

ALM Goals, Scope, Techniques, and Responsibilities.

ALCO.

Interest Rate Risk.

Gap Analysis.

Earnings at Risk.

Duration Gap Approach.

Funds Transfer Pricing.

Topic 3 :Measuring and Managing Market Risk in Compliance with Basel II & III

Measuring Market Risk — Basel II & III.

Value-At-Risk and Expected Shortfall.

Funding Liquidity Risk.

Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis.

Risk Capital Attribution and Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurement.

Case Studies.


Who Should Attend

Risk Managers, Financial Analysts, Asset Managers, Investment Bankers, Treasury Managers, Hedge Fund Managers, Credit Risk Managers, Market Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, and Compliance Officers.

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