2010 Course Handbook
ECFS868: Financial Risk Management
This offers a comprehensive approach to risk management, combining key technical skills with management issues. Technical skills include option pricing and risk measurement. Strategic risk management is taught in a series of cases, including recent financial market disasters. The unit analyses risk from the perspective of banks, regulators, fund managers and corporate treasuries.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | -- |
| When Offered: |
D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year E1 - Evening; Offered in the first half-year E2 - Evening; Offered in the second half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Bernd Luedecke |
| Prerequisites: | (Admission to Master of Applied Finance or Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Finance) and ECFS865 and ECFS867 |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies Faculty of Business and Economics |