Regulation, Reporting & Risk
Investment Risk Measurement & Management
Identify potential risk, implement strategy, and continuously monitor for review.
Led by Paul Meadows · Financial markets trainer
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Price
- On request
- Delivery
- Online, in person or hybrid
- Availability
- Scheduled dates or privately on request
Course Overview
Not all risk is bad. Too much risk aversion will likely result in missing out on upside opportunities. Risk management requires defining acceptable risk levels and measuring them appropriately, though no single tool exists for this purpose.
Content Coverage
- Determining client risk tolerance and measuring investable risk
- Volatility analysis: statistical probability and return dispersion
- Examining whether markets follow normal distributions
- Volatility case studies across mutual funds
- Fat tails and black swan events in finance
- The VIX Index — "Wall Street's Fear Gauge"
- Portfolio optimisation using Excel
- Value at Risk (a sell-side risk measurement tool)
- Sharpe Ratios and risk-adjusted performance measurement (buy-side tools)
Duration
3 hours
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