Risk Management Policy

This course is for students who have taken a finance course (or courses) and want to learn more about risk management and securities valuation. The course will focus on the tools and techniques traders and managers use to measure and manage market risk: Volatility, VaR, Contribution to Risk, Best Hedges, and Replicating Portfolios. The seminar will be built around the sample portfolio and risk reporting in Chapter 10 of Professor Coleman's book Quantitative Risk Management. Students will be required to translate from Mathematica into Python for producing risk reports. This will provide students with practical training in Python coding. The financial theory behind the risk measures will also be covered to gain a deeper understanding of the ideas and quantitative foundations of financial risk reporting.