An Introduction to Value-at-Risk (Securities Institute) - Softcover

Choudhry, Moorad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 111831672X ISBN 13: 9781118316726

Publisher: Wiley, 2013

Synopsis

The value-at-risk measurement methodology is a widely-used tool in financial market risk management. The fifth edition of Professor Moorad Choudhry’s benchmark reference text An Introduction to Value-at-Risk offers an accessible and reader-friendly look at the concept of VaR and its different estimation methods, and is aimed specifically at newcomers to the market or those unfamiliar with modern risk management practices. The author capitalises on his experience in the financial markets to present this concise yet in-depth coverage of VaR, set in the context of risk management as a whole.

Topics covered include:

• Defining value-at-risk
• Variance-covariance methodology
• Portfolio VaR
• Credit risk and credit VaR
• Stressed VaR
• Critique and VaR during crisis

Topics are illustrated with Bloomberg screens, worked examples and exercises. Related issues such as statistics, volatility and correlation are also introduced as necessary background for students and practitioners. This is essential reading for all those who require an introduction to financial market risk management and risk measurement techniques.

Foreword by Carol Alexander, Professor of Finance, University of Sussex.

About this title

About the Author

Moorad Choudhry is an MD in Group Treasury at The Royal Bank of Scotland. He is Visiting Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University, Visiting Professor at the IFS-School of Finance, Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London, Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of PRMIA, and Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

From the Back Cover

The value-at-risk measurement methodology is a widely-used tool in financial market risk management. The fifth edition of Professor Moorad Choudhry's benchmark reference text An Introduction to Value-at-Risk offers an accessible and reader-friendly look at the concept of VaR and its different estimation methods, and is aimed specifically at newcomers to the market or those unfamiliar with modern risk management practices. The author capitalises on his experience in the financial markets to present this concise yet in-depth coverage of VaR, set in the context of risk management as a whole.
Coverage includes:

• Defining value-at-risk
• Variance-covariance methodology
• Portfolio VaR
• Credit risk and credit VaR
• Stressed VaR
• Credit valuation adjustment VaR
• VaR during crisis and the way forward

Topics are illustrated with Bloomberg screens, worked examples and exercises. Related issues such as statistics, volatility and correlation are also introduced as necessary background for student and practitioners. This is essential reading for all those who require an introduction to financial market risk management and risk measurement techniques.

• Defining value-at-risk
• Variance-covariance methodology
• Portfolio VaR
• Credit risk and credit VaR
• Stressed VaR
• Credit valuation adjustment VaR
• VaR during crisis and the way forward

Topics are illustrated with Bloomberg screens, worked examples and exercises. Related issues such as statistics, volatility and correlation are also introduced as necessary background for student and practitioners. This is essential reading for all those who require an introduction to financial market risk management and risk measurement techniques.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 111831672X
• ISBN 13: 9781118316726
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 224