| Description |
1 online resource (173 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Section 1: The need for a new approach to tail-risk management -- Sustainability management is critical -- Tail risk is the culprit: tail wagging the dog? -- Need for a distinct focus on tail risk: in no uncertain terms -- Sole focus on traditional risk management can be dangerous: days of future passed -- Usefulness and limits of quant models -- Section 2: Elements of sustainaliblity management -- If you can't measure it, you can't manage it: taming something that's lurking around -- Simplicity to counter complexities of revenue models -- A new measure for effective sustainability management: probable maximum loss -- Continuous readiness is critical: a senior executive who wishes to remain anonymous -- Section 3: Implementation issues and the wide-reaching impact on institutions and the financial system -- Effective sustainability management: from top to bottom -- Paradoxical capital problem -- Capital as the last defense vs the first defense -- Tail risk, regulatory supervision, and systemic risk: missing links -- Convergence of regulatory objectives and institutional interests: alignment of goals to enhance sustainability and reduce systemic risk -- Telling your story effectively to alleviate marketplace anxiety -- Critical factors in preparing for an extreme financial crisis: a former senior executive who wishes to remain anonymous -- From the bane of the revenue model to a competitive advantage -- Adapting organizations to effective sustainability management -- Epilogue-- Appendix. The Wall Street Journal. |
| Summary |
Managing Extreme Financial Risk addresses the need for better management strategies in light of increased market risk and volatility in financial institutions' revenue models. Top officials from the financial and regulatory industries point to real corporate issues, showing how institutions react to financial crises. From first-hand experiences, they explain how effective sustainability management does not just prevent being blindsided; it also leads to proactive solutions that enhance an institution's strength to weather a sudden financial crisis, add significant shareholder value, and reduce systemic risk. Readable, coherent, and logical, Managing Extreme Financial Risk shows how extreme risk needs to be handled when the cost of being wrong means the difference between life and death of the institution. Based on the firsthand experiences and perspectives of senior-level executives Concentrates on extreme risk, when the cost of being wrong is not the loss of profits, but the death of the institution Written to be easily understood without algorithms, models, and quants. |
| Subject |
Risk management.
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Gestion du risque. |
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risk management. |
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Risk management |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Paul, Karamjeet. Managing extreme financial risk. Oxford : Academic Press, ©2014 0124172210 (OCoLC)854749439 |
| ISBN |
9780124172227 (electronic bk.) |
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0124172229 (electronic bk.) |
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0124172210 |
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9780124172210 |
| Standard No. |
9780124172210 |
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