Risk measurement vs risk management - Case Study: Goldman Sachs Manages Subprime Risk, 2007
Module 2: Taxonomy of Risks
Market risk
Credit risk
Operational Risk
Liquidity risk - Case Study: Northern Rock’s Liquidity Risk, 2007
Systemic risk
Module 3: Money and Capital Markets: Participants and Regulators
Money and capital markets
US Federal and State regulatory structure
Foreign regulatory structures - United Kingdom & European Union
Module 4: Concepts in Risk Management
Risk factors
Risk measures - Value at risk (VaR), Expected shortfall (ES) or Conditional VaR (CVaR), Coherence of risk measures
Scenario analysis and stress testing
Risk in the context of the associated regulatory actions and markets
Differentiate between financial risks and business risks
Identify and describe the various types of financial risk and their sources
Identify the real-world violations of the ‘standard model’ assumptions that make risk management value enhancing to the firm
Differentiate between risk measurement and risk management
Describe systemic risk as a negative externality
Describe the current US regulatory structure
Provide a high level description of the regulatory structures in major foreign jurisdictions
Describe, contrast and perform simple calculations of the various risk measures
Identify the desirable properties associated with coherent risk measures
Describe stress testing and reverse stress testing
Risk managers and assistants, trading assistants, finance professionals, auditors and controllers
Jack Farmer
Jack is currently the Curriculum Director for the New York Institute of Finance. Farmer also acts as an outside adviser for portfolio managers at significant global investment funds. These funds included emerging markets equity funds and global macro hedge funds. Jack serves a variety of functions for the funds he advises, including the development of options strategies, quantitative strategies, and hedging strategies. Additionally, Jack specializes in capitalizing on systemic and macroeconomic imbalances in equity and fixed income markets throughout the world.
Jack specializes in training and consulting solutions for portfolio risk management, FX and interest rate derivatives and trading, equity index and volatility trading, equity derivatives and structured equity products, financial statement analysis and hedge accounting.
Education
BS in Engineering from Tulane University MBA in Finance and Accounting from Tulane University Ph.D. in Finance (ABD) from the University of Texas at Austin