Measuring Risk: Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives and FX
A survey of risk measures and risk measurement practices applied to individual securities and portfolios. A risk report of a publicly traded financial institution is studied.
Foreign Exchange - Spot and Forward Rates, Covered arbitrage
Commodities - Spot and Forward prices
Module 2: Portfolio Risk Measurement
The role of correlation in portfolio risk
Measuring risk with historical data
Measuring risk with models
Application: Market risk measurement for an equity portfolio
Module 3: Risk Reporting
Structure of a risk report - Risk by risk factor, Risk by business unit, Component risk vs overall risk, Comparing P/L, VaR and ES
Case Study: Deutsche Bank Annual Risk Report
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