Winning at Risk Strategies to Go Beyond Basel

Name: Winning at Risk
Brand: John Wiley & Sons
SKU: 9780470924662
Price: 600.00 HKD
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Author: Annetta Cortez
ISBN: 9780470924662

By Annetta Cortez

John Wiley & Sons May 2011

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ISBN-13: 9780470924662
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publication: May 2011
Format: Hardback , 272 pages
Jurisdiction: International or US ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Practical risk and capital management strategies for financial service executives and high level managers

Risk and Capital Management is a primer for senior executives and directors struggling to interpret the growing demands and implications in this field. It includes valuable perspectives on how to address key issues that are pressing in the boardroom. It is the first book to lay out the basic frameworks of risk management, how to navigate new regulation, how to build a sound risk management capability, and how to translate that capability into strategic success.

A must-have management aid and reference tool for the financial services professional
Expert coverage of measuring risk, managing risk, integrating risk management into business, and leveraging business excellence through risk
Written by a respected thought leader in risk management

Providing CEOs and financial executives with the basic building blocks and concepts of risk management, this essential book simplifies risk management requirements for board and executive level professionals.

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Why Manage Risk?

Why is Risk Management Difficult to Implement?

Chapter 1: What is Risk?

The Business of Risk.

Defining Risk: Loss, Uncertainty, and Horizon.

More Ways to Think about Risk.

Taxonomy of Risks.

Risk and Reward: Modern Portfolio Theory.

Chapter 2: Risk Management Principles.

Words to Live by.

Know Your Risks.

Articulate Your Risk Appetite.

Develop a Well-Defined Risk Culture.

Use a Common Language.

Develop Capabilities and Approaches in Line with the Size, Complexity, and Culture of Your Organization.

Make It Transparent and Comprehensive.

Construct Clear Limits and Controls.

Align Performance and Incentives to Risk and Reward.

Develop Comprehensive Forecasting, Stress-Testing, and Challenge Processes.

Provide Active Leadership and Direction.

Construct Strong Governance and Oversight.

Make Continuous Improvements.

Chapter 3: Building the Risk-Management Framework.

All the Right Elements.

Your Risk Management Organization.

Your Risk Culture.

Your Governance Model.

Your Policies and Processes.

Your Data and Systems.

Chapter 4: Measuring Risk and Capital.

Why Measure Risk?

Laying Out the Fundamentals, from the Top Down.

Probability, Exposure, and Severity.

Probability Distributions.

Expected Loss.

Unexpected Loss and Value at Risk.

Economic Capital.

The Role of Data and Assumptions.

Managing across the Economic Cycle.

Stress Testing.

Validation of Models.

Modeling Credit Risk.

Modeling Market Risk.

Modeling Operational Risk.

Jump Diffusion and EVT.

Chapter 5: Managing Trade-Offs Between Risk and Reward.

The CEO Challenge.

Performance Measures.

Multi-Period Calculations.

Discounting Methods.

Capital Attribution and Allocation.

Applying Performance Measures.

Top-Down versus Bottom-Up.

Chapter 6: Understanding Your Appetite for Risk.

Identifying the Risk Appetite.

Risk Appetite and ICAAP.

Building the Risk Appetite Statement.

Managing the Risk Appetite (Process).

Governance and Risk Appetite.

The Living Will.

Chapter 7: Integrating Risk Management into Your Organization.

Embedding Risk Management.

What is ERM?

Culture.

Incentives and Compensation.

Your Organization.

Lines of Defense.

Reporting, Monitoring, and Decision-making.

Leveraging your Business Rhythm.

Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting.

ERM and COSO.

Chapter 8: Leveraging Risk for Business Excellence.

More than Compliance.

Introducing the Customer Lifecycle.

Leveraging the Upside.

Managing the Downside.

Optimization.

Chapter 9: Basel II and the Future.

Basel II: What's It All about?

The Regulator Viewpoint.

Basel II Basics.

Special Challenges and Requirements.

Is It Worth It?

Beyond Basel II: Basel III and Regulatory Reform.

Solvency II.

Impacts on Financial Institutions and Financial Markets.

Non-bank Financial Institutions.

Too Big to Fail.

Afterword.

About the Author.

Index.

About the Author

Annetta Cortez is an international expert in risk management and capital management at Novantas LLC, the leading provider of management consultancy and information services to the financial services industries. Before joining Novantas, she led her own firm, ACT Consulting, in advising many of the major banks in Australia, Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Formerly a principal at Oliver Wyman Group, Cortez also played a leadership role at the KPMG Barents Group, where she initially led the international practice for risk and performance management, and later led the Asia-Pacific practices in enterprise solutions and financial institutions. She is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Risk Management.