Risk professionals looking to earn the Financial Risk Manager (FRM™) certification, corporate training programs, professors, and graduate students all rely on one book for the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on financial risk management–the Financial Risk Manager Handbook. Presented in a clear and consistent fashion, this completely updated Second Edition is the best way to prepare for the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) exam and has become the core text for risk management training programs worldwide.

This definitive guide supports candidates studying for GARP’s annual FRM exam and prepares you to assess and control risk in today’s rapidly changing financial world. Financial Risk Manager Handbook, Second Edition summarizes the core body of knowledge for financial risk managers, covering such topics as quantitative methods, capital markets, as well as credit, operational, market, and integrated risk management. It also discusses relevant regulatory, legal, and accounting issues essential to risk professionals.

The FRM is recognized as the world’s most prestigious global certification program–created to measure a financial risk manager’s capabilities. With the FRM exam fast becoming an essential requirement for risk managers around the world, the Financial Risk Manager Handbook, Second Edition focuses on practical financial risk management techniques and solutions that are emphasized on the test–and essential in the real world. Questions from previous exams are explained through tutorials so that you may prepare yourself or your employees for this comprehensive exam and for the risk management scenarios you will face at some point in your career.

About the Author

PHILIPPE JORION is Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Irvine. He holds an MBA and a PhD from the University of Chicago and a degree in engineering from the University of Brussels. Dr. Jorion has authored more than seventy publications–directed towards academics and practitioners–on the topic of risk management and international finance. He is Editor of the Journal of Risk and is on the editorial board of a number of other financial journals. He has won the Smith Breeden Prize for research and the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Financial Research. He has written the first edition of Financial Risk Manager Handbook as well as Financial Risk Management: Domestic and International Dimensions, Big Bets Gone Bad: Derivatives and Bankruptcy in Orange County, and Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk.