Guide to Financial Risk Management
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Published by Thomson Reuters.

OVERVIEW
This practical guide to key aspects of risk management helps you learn essential strategies for identifying and managing financial risk.
Published by Thomson Reuters, the guide helps you develop practical skills to recognise and measure risk relating to your business and investments.
The Guide to Financial Risk Management clarifies how instruments work together to manage risk and puts Australian markets in perspective with world markets.
It is written exclusively for the Australian corporate and business market by an experienced corporate treasurer.
You will always be up-to-date with the latest developments and techniques with two updates every year.
BENEFITS
- Authoritative guidance from a specialist in the field
- Create strategies to identify and manage risks to your organisation, now and in the future
- Train your staff in financial risk management practice in one succinct resource
- Puts prices and movements into perspective
- Assists accountants, lawyers and auditors to understand complex derivatives
KEY ISSUES COVERED
- All major financial instruments traded in Australia
- Updates from the Australian Securities Exchange
- Current market data supplied from AFMA
- Credit risk: counterparty, settlement and sector risk.
- Operational risk: system risk.
- Procedural risk: human error and fraud, education and hiring.
- Portfolio risk: diversification and correlation, systematic and non-systematic risk.
- Market risk: interest rate, equity price, foreign exchange and commodity price risk.
- Credit risk as it relates to financial products
- Liquidity risk as it relates to the corporate market
- Other risks such as legal and liquidity risk
- Hedging market risk: Passive or active risk
- management, negative correlation and adding value.
- Measuring market risk: replacement cost, maximum potential loss and Standards Australia risk management.
CONTENTS
- Recent developments
- Overview
- Interest rate risk
- Foreign exchange risk
- Commodity price risk
- Equity price risk
- Forward markets
- Option markets
- Operations
- Fundamental analysis
- Technical analysis
- Credit risk
- Liquidity risk
- CFDs (new)
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