Learn the basic concepts of risk, techniques of risk identification, and methods to measure risk

Essentials of Risk Measurement

Essentials of Risk Measurement

About This eBook
The measurement and management of risk has emerged as the key challenge for every participant in the financial markets. Risk management is at the heart of many critical decisions, day-to-day operations, resource allocation, strategic planning, capital structure, legal exposure, performance measurement and a host of other issues. Increasingly, success depends on identification, quantification, and management of a variety of complex risks. This ebook on "Risk Measurement" is designed to build an overall understanding of the risk management function. The …ver más…

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Essentials of Risk Measurement

Identifying Risks
Identification of risk is the first step in the risk management process. In this module, we will look at the process of identifying risk. We will define risk as uncertainty of meeting desired goals, and explain the concept of absolute and relative risk. We will then discuss the major types of risks faced by businesses including: business, market, credit, and operational risk.

A Word About Risk Management
Creating transparencies through proper identification of risk is a simple, but crucial, step in the risk management cycle. Hidden risks are the most dangerous. Once we have identified risk, we can then measure and manage it. Organizations that manage risk well constantly identify and evaluate different types of business and financial risk. Particularly interesting is the interconnectedness of seemingly unrelated risks. For example, in Asia we saw the July '97 devaluation of the Thai Baht precipitate waves of systematic global market, and credit risks that we are still feeling today over a year later, in both