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Overview

Learn how to differentiate between financial and business risks

Duration

18 hours

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

Difficulty level

Intermediate

Credential

Certificate

Introduction to Risk Management
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Highlights

  • 13% got a pay increase or promotion
  • Flexible Schedule- Set and maintain flexible deadlines.
  • Part of NYIF Professional Certificate in Risk Management
  • 100% Online-Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
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Introduction to Risk Management
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Course details

Who should do this course?
  • Students having Basic MS Excel skills & Basic probability and statistics will be suitable for this course
What are the course deliverables?
  • Learn to Differentiate between financial risks and business risks.
  • Learn to Identify and describe the various types of financial risk and their sources.
  • Learn to Identity the real-world violations of the standard model' assumptions that make risk management value enhancing to the firm.
  • Learn to Differentiate between risk measurement and risk management.
  • Learn to Describe systemic risk as a negative externality
  • Learn to Describe the US regulatory structure.
More about this course
  • This economics and finance course is an introductory survey of risk management concepts and techniques. Learners will review the role of risk regulation in financial markets, and learn how to identify and describe the various types of financial risk and their sources.
  • Upon completion of this course, participants will receive a certificate bearing the New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) name. A NYIF certificate is a valuable addition to your credentials, proving that you have acquired the work-ready skills that employer's value.

Introduction to Risk Management
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Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction

Lesson 1: The Standard Model

Lesson 2: Rationale for Risk Management

Lesson 3: Management vs Management

Module 2: Taxonomy of Risks

Lesson 1: Overview: Types of Risk

Lesson 2: Credit Risk

Lesson 3: Liquidity Risks

Lesson 4: Operational Risk

Module 3: Money and Capital Markets

Lesson 1: The Financial System

Lesson 2: US Regulatory Structures

Lesson 3: JPM Oversight

Lesson 4: UK vs EU Regulatory Structure

Module 4: Risk Concepts

Lesson 1: Introduction to Loss Distribution

Lesson 2: Components of Risk Model

Lesson 3: Profit and Loss

Lesson 4: Risk Measures

Lesson 5: Quantiles

Lesson 6: Value at Risk

Lesson 7: Expected Shortfall

Lesson 8: Historical Loss Distribution

Lesson 9: Parametric VaR- t Approximation

Lesson 10: Coherent Risk Measures

Lesson 11: Critique of VaR

Lesson 12: Stress Testing

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