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What competencies should risk managers in non-financial companies really have?

What Competencies should Risk Managers in Non-Financial Companies really have?

Risk management competencies can significantly improve decision making in any profession. The bad news is that these competencies do not come to us naturally. They have to be developed. Risk managers who actively develop them have a significant competitive advantage to other risk professionals. I have tried to summarize some of the key competencies risk […]

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Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part I

FREE COURSE: Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part I

Created by Columbia University, this course ranges concepts from finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering and computational methods. The main focus if the course is on financial engineering and risk management, where the use of simple stochastic models to price derivative securities in various asset classes including equities, fixed income, credit and mortgage-backed securities is also […]

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FREE COURSE: Introduction to Programming with MATLAB

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 […]

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Free Course Mastering Data Analysis in Excel

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. […]

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