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Readings included in 2009 FRMŽ Full Exam Core Readings Course Pack





Market Risk Measurement and Management

Tuckman, Fixed Income Securities, 2nd Edition.

  • Chapter 6 ? Measures of Price Sensitivity Based on Parallel Yield Shifts
  • Chapter 7 ? Key Rate and Bucket Exposures
  • Chapter 9 ? The Science of Term Structure Models
  • Chapter 21 ? Mortgage-Backed Securities

Jorion, Value at Risk, 3rd Edition.
  • Chapter 6 ? Backtesting VaR
  • Chapter 11 ? VaR Mapping

Kevin Dowd, Measuring Market Risk, 2nd Edition (West Sussex, England: Wiley, 2005).
  • Chapter 2?Measures of Financial Risk
  • Chapter 5 Appendix?Modeling Dependence: Correlations and Copulas
  • Chapter 7 ? Parametric Approaches (II): Extreme Value

Frank Fabozzi, Handbook of Mortgage Backed Securities 6th edition (New York: Mcgraw Hill, 2006).
  • Chapter 1?An Overview of Mortgages and the Mortgage Market
  • Chapter 31 ? Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities


Credit Risk Measurement and Management

Christopher Culp, Structured Finance and Insurance: The Art of Managing Capital and Risk (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, 2006).
  • Chapter 12 ? Credit Derivatives and Credit-Linked Notes
  • Chapter 13 ? The Structuring Process
  • Chapter 16 ? Securitization
  • Chapter 17 ? Cash Collateralized Debt Obligations
  • Chapter 18 ? Synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligations

Caouette, Altman, Narayanan and Nimmo, Managing Credit Risk, 2nd Edition.
  • Chapter 18 ? Introduction to Portfolio Approaches
  • Chapter 19 ? Economic Capital and Capital Allocation
  • Chapter 20 ? Application of Portfolio Approaches

de Servigny and Renault, Measuring and Managing Credit Risk.
  • Chapter 3 ? Default Risk: Quantitative Methodologies
  • Chapter 4 ? Loss Given Default

Allen, Boudoukh and Saunders, Understanding Market, Credit and Operational Risk
  • Chapter 4 ? Extending the VaR Approach to Non-tradable Loans

Stulz, Risk Management & Derivatives.
  • Chapter 18 ? Credit Risks and Credit Derivatives

Ong, Internal Credit Risk Models: Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement.
  • Chapter 6 ? Portfolio Effects: Risk Contributions and Unexpected Losses


Operational and Integrated Risk Management

Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai and Robert Mark, Risk Management (New York: McGraw Hill, 2001).
  • Chapter 14 ? Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement

Dowd, Measuring Market Risk, 2nd Edition.
  • Chapter 14 ? Estimating Liquidity Risks
  • Chapter 16 ? Model Risk

Ellen Davis (editor), Operational Risk: Practical Approaches to Implementation (London: Risk Books, 2005).
  • Chapter 12 ? Aligning Basel II Operational Risk and Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Projects, by Nick Bolton and Judson Berkey.

de Servigny and Renault, Measuring and Managing Credit Risk.
  • Chapter 10 ? Regulation

Saunders and Cornett, Financial Institutions Management, 6th Edition.
  • Chapter 17 ? Liquidity Risk


Risk Management and Investment Management

Grinold and Kahn, Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk, 2nd Edition.
  • Chapter 14 ? Portfolio Construction
  • Chapter 17 ? Performance Analysis

Lars Jaeger (ed), The New Generation of Risk Management for Hedge Funds and Private Equity Investments (London: Euromoney Institutional Investor, 2003).
  • Chapter 6 ? Funds of Hedge Funds, by Sohail Jaffer
  • Chapter 27 ? Style Drifts: Monitoring, Detection and Control, by Pierre Yves Moix

Lars Jaeger, Through the Alpha Smoke Screens: A Guide to Hedge Fund Returns (New York: Institutional Investor Books, 2005).
  • Chapter 5 ? Individual Hedge Fund Strategies

Jorion, Value at Risk, 3rd Edition.
  • Chapter 7 ? Portfolio Risk: Analytical Methods
  • Chapter 17 ? VaR and Risk Budgeting in Investment Management

Robert Litterman and the Quantitative Resources Group, Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium Approach (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons: 2003).
  • Chapter 17?Risk Monitoring and Performance Measurement

Leslie Rahl (editor), Risk Budgeting: A New Approach to Investing (London: Risk Books, 2004).
  • Chapter 6 ? Risk Budgeting for Pension Funds and Investment Managers Using VaR, by Michelle McCarthy

 

 
   
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