This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to improve their knowledge in Financial Markets. It’s a FREE course created by Yale University and starts on Jan 23. A summary of the course content and syllabus is explained below. Course Syllabus Week 1: Basic Principles of Finance and Risk Management (5 videos, 1 reading) Reading: Optional […]
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Six Potential Risks for Investors in 2017
Investment Banks analysts anticipate that financial markets will be affected in 2017 by three main events: Donald Trump’s performance as US President, which for most, is a big uncertainty; the first round of the 2017 French presidential election, held on 23 April 2017; and the next German federal elections, which will elect the members of the Bundestag, […]
VIDEO: Credit Risk Assessment and Management
This article includes a series of videos from Prof. Joseph M. Pimbley, PhD in Theoretical Physics and Principal of Maxwell Consulting, a firm he founded in 2010. Prof. Joseph M. Pimbley participates actively in several industry forums and is board member of different institutions, having had several Wall Street roles in the past, including positions […]
Understanding Carbon Emission Risk when Allocating Assets
In 2013 I was invited to write about the closure of Chinese Harbin Airport due to poor air quality (in other words “smog”). This article became the second most read entry at globalairportcities.com blog for FY2013 and generated a lot of interesting discussion and positive feedback. Three years have passed, and besides the United Nation […]
FREE COURSE: Introduction to Programming with MATLAB
Today we share another Coursera free course this time focusing on programming with MATLAB. For those unfamiliar, MATLAB is a high-performance language for technical computing. It integrates computation, visualization, and programming in an easy-to-use environment (high level) where problems and solutions are expressed in familiar mathematical notation. Typical uses include math and computation, modelling, scientific and engineering, data […]
10 Essential Risk Management Videos – Part 1
This article includes a series of Risk Management videos, covering several topics which are relevant specially for Market Risk professionals. The videos included cover the following topics (click on the different topics below to access directly the embedded video). Forwards Futures Hedging Hedging with Futures Put options Call options Put-Call Parity Combining Payoffs Payoffs Total […]
FREE COURSE: Mastering Data Analysis in Excel
This is a free course delivered by Coursera, which is an education platform that partners with top universities and organisations worldwide, offering online courses online for anyone interested. Risk Managers frequently need to work with Excel and some of its advanced tools. This free course will prepare you to design and implement realistic predictive models based on data. […]