Investment Risk Management

Edited by H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck

Financial Markets and Investments

Surveys the latest research into managing risk in investments
Contributors are academics at the forefront of the field and practitioners employing these risk management tactics in their own investments

Investment Risk Management

Edited by H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck

Financial Markets and Investments

Description

All investments carry with them some degree of risk. In the financial world, individuals, professional money managers, financial institutions, and many others encounter and must deal with risk. Risk management is a process of determining what risks exist in an investment and then handling those risks in the best-suited way. This is important because it can reduce or augment risk depending on the goals of investors and portfolio managers.

The main purpose of Investment Risk Management is to provide an overview of developments in risk management and a synthesis of research involving these developments. The book examines ways to alter exposures through measuring and managing those exposures and provides an understanding of the latest strategies and trends within risk management. The scope of the coverage is broad and encompasses the most important aspects of investment risk management. Its 30 chapters are organized into six sections: (1) foundations of risk management, (2) types of risk, (3) quantitative assessment of risk, (4) risk and risk classes, (5) hedging risk and (6) going forward.

The book should be of particular interest to sophisticated practitioners, investors, academics, and graduate finance students. Investment Risk Management provides a fresh look at this intriguing but complex subject.

Investment Risk Management

Edited by H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck

Financial Markets and Investments

SECTION ONE FOUNDATIONS OF RISK MANAGEMENT
1. Investment Risk Management: An Overview
H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck
2. Measuring and Managing Risk
Raimund M. Kovacevic, Georg Ch. Pflug, and Alois Pichler
3. How Risk Management Adds Value
M. Martin Boyer and Monica Marin
4. Accounting and Risk Management
Mark Bradshaw and Bjorn Jorgensen
SECTION TWO TYPES OF RISK
5. Market Risk
Ramon P. Degennaro and Chanaka P. Edirisinghe
6. Credit Risk Measurement and Management
Norbert J. Jobst
7. Operational Risk
Pavel V. Shevchenko
8. Liquidity Risk
Kose John, Samir Saadi, and Hui Zhu
9. Country Risk: Determinants, Measures, and Implications
Aswath Damodaran
10. Systemic Risk
Andreas Krause
11. Behavioral Risk
M. Martin Boyer, Franca Glenzer, and Samuel Ouzan
12. Governance Risk: A Guide for Investors
Didier Cossin
13. Inflation Risk: Causes and Instruments for Protection
Claus Huber, Felix Gasser, and Nicolas Bürkler
14. Risk Aggregation and Capital Management
Sumit Mathur
SECTION THREE QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF RISK
15. Value-at-Risk and Other Risk Measures
Markus Lieppold
16. Stress Testing
Martin ?ihák
17. Risk Management and Regulation
David E. Allen, Robert J. Powell, and Abhay K. Singh
18. Risk Budgeting
Gregg Fisher, Tim Nguyen, and Cristian I. Tiu
19. Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurement
Pilar Grau Carles
20. Risk Attribution Analysis
Philippe Bertrand
SECTION FOUR RISK AND ASSET CLASSES
21. Risk and Mortgage-Backed Securities in a Time of Transition
Harold C. Barnett
22. Credit Value Adjustment
James T. Moser
23. Risk Management and Hedge Funds
Razvan Pascalau
SECTION FIVE HEDGING RISK
24. Options
Kit Pong Wong, Greg Filbeck, and H. Kent Baker
25. Trading Futures to Manage Risk
Ludwig B. Chincarini
26. Swaps
Dimitris Tsouknidis and Elias Boukrami
27. The Economics of Credit Derivatives
Udo Broll, Simone Raab, and Peter Welzel
28. Foreign Exchange Derivatives in Frontier Markets
Othmane Boukrami and Bert van Lier
SECTION SIX GOING FORWARD
29. Risk Management and Financial Disasters
Gabriele Sabato
30. The Future of Risk Management
Hunter M. Holzhauer

Investment Risk Management

Edited by H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck

Financial Markets and Investments

Author Information

Edited by H. Kent Baker, Professor of Finance and Kogod Research Professor, American University, and Edited by Greg Filbeck, Samuel P. Black III Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, Pennsylvania State University

H. Kent Baker is a University Professor of Finance in the Kogod School of Business at American University. Professor Baker is an author or editor of 22 books including Investor Behavior - The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing, Market Microstructure of Emerging and Developed Markets, Behavioral Finance - Investors, Corporations, and Markets, Portfolio Theory and Management, and Survey Research in Corporate Finance. As one of the most prolific finance academics, he has published more than 150 refereed articles in such journals as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, Financial Analysts Journal, and Journal of Portfolio Management.

Greg Filbeck holds the Samuel P. Black III Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College and serves as Area Chair for Finance, Accounting, and Business Economics. He formerly served as Senior Vice-President of Kaplan Schweser and held academic appointments at Miami University (Ohio) and the University of Toledo, where he served as the Associate Director of the Center for Family Business. Professor Filbeck is an author or editor of four books and has published more than 75 refereed academic journal articles that have appeared in journals such as Financial Analysts Journal, Financial Review, and Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting.

Contributors:

David E. Allen
H. Kent Baker
Harold C. Barnett
Philippe Bertrand
Elias Boukrami
Othmane Boukrami
M. Martin Boyer
Mark Bradshaw
Udo Broll
Nicolas Bürkler
Pilar Grau Carles
Ludwig B. Chincarini
Martin ?ihák
Didier Cossin
Aswath Damodaran
Ramon P. DeGennaro
Chanaka P. Edirisinghe
Greg Filbeck
Gregg Fisher
Felix Gasser
Franca Glenzer
Hunter M. Holzhauer
Claus Huber
Norbert J. Jobst
Kose John
Bjorn Jorgensen
Raimund M. Kovacevic
Andreas Krause
Markus Leippold
Monica Marin
Sumit Mathur
James T. Moser
Tim Nguyen
Samuel Ouzan
Razvan Pascalau
Georg Ch. Pflug
Alois Pichler
Robert J. Powell
Simone Raab
Samir Saadi
Gabriele Sabato
Pavel V. Shevchenko
Abhay K. Singh
Cristian I. Tiu
Dimitris Tsouknidis
Bert van Lier
Peter Welzel
Kit Pong Wong
Hui Zhu