The Essentials of Risk Management

The Essentials of Risk Management

Vital information from the bestselling "Risk Management" is made accessible to a wider professional audience. For ease of readability, complicated mathematical equations are located in appendixes instead of chapter text. The authors are prize-winning researchers and practitioners; each is a prominent and influential figure in the international risk management field.

Learn what risk management is and how you can effectively implement it in your organization
Essentials of Risk Managementeliminates the complex mathematics and minutiae surrounding corporate risk management. It describes key risk concepts and controls in language that you can understand. Topics include organizational issues and regulatory aspects, along with detailed descriptions of tools for controlling key types of market, credit, and operational risk.

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Dr. Michel Crouhy is Senior Vice President, Global Analytics, Market Risk Management Division at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Prior to this he was a Professor of Finance at HEC. He has been a visiting professor at Wharton School where he received his Ph.D. He has extensively published in academic journals and is also the associate editor of the Journal of Derivatives, the Journal of Banking and Finance. He is also on the editorial board of the new Journal of Risk.