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Financial Risk Management For Dummies

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Financial Risk Management For Dummies by Aaron Brown is an insightful guide that introduces readers to the essentials of managing financial risk in various business contexts. It covers practical techniques and strategies to identify, assess, and mitigate potential financial threats. The book's approachable style makes complex concepts accessible for professionals and beginners alike, providing valuable tools for effective decision-making in uncertain financial landscapes.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in understanding and managing financial risks within your business or investment portfolio. It's perfect for beginners and offers practical, straightforward advice on assessing risk factors, developing a risk management plan, and using financial tools to mitigate potential dangers. If you want to gain confidence in handling financial uncertainties, you'll find this user-friendly guide extremely valuable.

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Take the risk out of financial risk management Written by bestselling author and past winner of the GARP Award's Risk Manager of the Year, Aaron Brown, Financial Risk Management For Dummies offers thorough and accessible guidance on successfully managing and controlling financial risk within your company.

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Take the risk out of financial risk management

Written by bestselling author and past winner of the GARP Award's Risk Manager of the Year, Aaron Brown, Financial Risk Management For Dummies offers thorough and accessible guidance on successfully managing and controlling financial risk within your company. Through easy-to-follow instruction, you'll find out how to manage risk, firstly by understanding it, and then by taking control of it. Plus, you'll discover how to measure and value financial risk, set limits, stop losses, control drawdowns, and hedge bets.

Financial risk management uses financial instruments to manage exposure to risk within firms, large and smallβ€”particularly credit risk and market risk. From managing and measuring risk to working in financial institutions, and knowing how to communicate risk to your company and clients, Financial Risk Management For Dummies makes it easy to make sense of the management of risk when working in various different financial institutions. The book concludes by covering the topic of how to communicate riskβ€”how to report it properly and how to deal with and comply with all of the regulations.

  • Covers managing risk and working as a financial risk manager
  • Provides everything you need to know about measuring financial risk
  • Walks you through working in financial institutions
  • Demonstrates how to communicate risk

If you work in the financial sector and want to make financial risk management your mission, you've come to the right place!

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Aaron Brown's Financial Risk Management For Dummies is praised for providing detailed and solid instruction on financial risk management in a lively and engaging manner. It is considered by some experts as one of the top ten books on risk management.

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9781119082200

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 November 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 185.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 703g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Aaron Brown is managing director and risk manager at AQR Capital Management and the 2011 GARP Risk Manager of the Year. He wrote Red-Blooded Risk and The Poker Face of Wall Street. He was named Financial Educator of the Year by the readers of Wilmott Magazine and his website won a Forbes Best of the Web award for Theory and Practice of Investing.

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