FRM Core readings
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Includes the following Core Readings from the 2008 FRM Study Guide:
From the Quantitative Analysis section:
· Allen, Boudoukh and Saunders. Understanding Market, Credit, and Operational Risk: The Value at Risk Approach. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Chapter 2 – Quantifying Volatility in VaR Model
· Damodar N Gujarati, Essentials of Econometrics, 3 rd Edition ( New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Chapter 1 – The Nature and Scope of Econometrics
Chapter 2 – Review of Statistics I: Probability and Probability Distributions
Chapter 3 – Characteristics of Probability Distributions
Chapter 4 – Some Important Probability Distributions
Chapter 5 – Statistical Inference: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 6 – Basic Ideas of Linear Regression: The Two-Variable Model
Chapter 7 – The Two-Variable Model: Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 8 – Multiple Regression: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
· Paul Wilmott, Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance, 2nd Edition ( New York: Wiley & Sons, 2007).
Chapter 22 – Value at Risk
· Appendix A – All the Math You Need … and No More (An Executive Summary)
From the Market Risk Measurement and Management section:
· Jorion. Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk, 3rd ed.
Chapter 10 – VaR Methods
Chapter 11 – VaR Mapping
Chapter 14 – Stress Testing
· McDonald. Derivatives Markets, 2nd ed. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2006.
Chapter 6 – Commodity Forwards and Futures
· Saunders. Financial Institutions Management, 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Chapter 15 – Foreign Exchange Risk
· Stulz. Risk Management & Derivatives. Mason, Ohio: Thomson South-Western, 2003.
Chapter 4 – A Firm-Wide Approach to Risk Management
Chapter 8 – Identifying and Managing Cash Flow Exposures
Chapter 15 – The Demand and Supply for Derivative Products
· Tuckman. Fixed Income Securities, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 2002.
Chapter 1 – Bond Prices, Discount Factors, and Arbitrage
Chapter 2 – Bond Prices, Spot Rates, and Forward Rates
Chapter 3 – Yield to Maturity
Chapter 4 – Generalizations and Curve Fitting
Chapter 5 – One-Factor Measures of Price Sensitivity
Chapter 6 – Measures of Price Sensitivity Based on Parallel Yield Shifts
Chapter 7 – Key Rate and Bucket Exposures
Chapter 9 – The Science of Term Structure Models
From the Credit Risk Measurement and Management section:
· Christopher Culp. Structured Finance and Insurance: The Art of Managing Capital and Risk. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.
Chapter 16 – Securitization
· De Servigny and Renault. Measuring and Managing Credit Risk. New York: Mc-Graw-Hill, 2004.
Chapter 2 – External and Internal Ratings
Chapter 3 – Default Risk: Quantitative Methodologies
Chapter 4 – Loss Given Default
Chapter 6 – Cre dit Risk Portfolio Models
Chapter 7 – Credit Risk Management and Strategic Capital Allocation
· Dev, editor. Economic Capital: A Practitioner Guide. London: Risk Books, 2004.
Chapter 7 – Economic Capital for Counterparty Credit Risk, by Evan Picoult and David Lamb.
· Meissner. Credit Derivatives, Application, Pricing and Risk Management. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
Chapter 3 – Synthetic Structures
· Michael Ong, Internal Credit Risk Models: Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement, (London: Risk Books, 1999).
Chapter 4 – Loan Portfolios and Expected Loss
Chapter 5 – Unexpected Loss
Chapter 6 – Portfolio Effects: Risk Contributions and Unexpected Losses
· Saunders. Financial Institutions Management, 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Chapter 11 – Credit Risk: Individual Loan Risk
Chapter 16 – Sovereign Risk
· Stulz. Risk Management & Derivatives. Mason, Ohio: Thomson South-Western, 2003.
Chapter 18 – Credit Risks and Credit Derivatives
From the Operational and Integrated Risk Management section:
· Allen, Boudoukh and Saunders. Understanding Market, Credit, and Operational Risk: The Value at Risk Approach. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Chapter 5 – Extending the VaR Approach to Operational Risk
Crouhy, Galai, and Mark. Risk Management. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Chapter 14 – Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement
Culp. The Risk Management Process; Business Strategy and Tactics. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2001.
Chapter 17 – Identifying, Measuring, and Monitoring Liquidity Risk
· Davis (editor), Operational Risk: Practical Approaches to Implementation (London: Risk Books, 2005).
Chapter 12 – Aligning Basel II Operational Risk and Sarbanes Oxley 404 Projects, by Nick Bolton and Judson Berkey
De Servigny and Renault. Measuring and Managing Credit Risk. New York: Mc-Graw-Hill, 2004.
Chapter 10 – Regulation
· Dowd. Measuring market risk. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.
Chapter 16 - Model Risk
· Gallati. Risk Management and Capital Adequacy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Chapter 6 – Case Studies
· Saunders. Financial Institutions Management, 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Chapter 14 – Technology and Other Operational Risks
· Stulz. Risk Management & Derivatives. Mason, Ohio: Thomson South-Western, 2003.
Chapter 2 – Investors and Risk Management
Chapter 3 – Creating Value with Risk Management
From the Risk Management and Investment Management section:
· Amenc, Noel and Veronique Le Sourd. Portfolio Theory and Performance Analysis. West Sussex: Wiley, 2003.
Chapter 4 – The Capital Asset Pricing Model and Its Application to Performance Measurement
· Jorion. Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk, 3rd ed.
Chapter 7 – Portfolio Risk: Analytical Methods
Chapter 17 – VaR and Risk Budgeting in Investment Management
· Lars Jaeger, editor. The New Generation of Risk Management for Hedge Funds and Private Equity Investments. London: Euromoney Books, 2003.
Chapter 6 – Funds of Hedge Funds,by Sohail Jaffer
Chapter 27 – Style Drifts: Monitoring, Detection and Control, by Pi erre-Yves Moix
· Lars Jaeger. Through the Alpha Smoke Screens, A Guide to Hedge Fund Return Sources. New York: Euromoney Institutional Investor, 2005.
Chapter 5 – Individual Hedge Fund Strategies
· Richard Grinold and Ronald Kahn, Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk, 2nd Edition, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999).
Chapter 17 – Performance Analysis
Does NOT include the following Core Readings from the FRM 2008 Study Guide:
Not Included from the Market Risk Measurement and Management section:
· Hull . Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, 6th ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Chapter 3 – Hedging Strategies using Futures
Chapter 5 – Determination of Forward and Futures Prices
Chapter 6 – Interest Rate Markets
Chapter 7 – Swaps
Chapter 9 – Properties of Stock Options
Chapter 10 – Trading Strategies Involving Options
Chapter 11 – Binomial Trees
Chapter 13 – The Black-Scholes-Merton Model
Chapter 15 – The Greek Letters
Chapter 16 – Volatility Smiles
Chapter 22 – Exotic Options
Includes the following Core Readings from the 2008 FRM Study Guide:
From the Quantitative Analysis section:
· Allen, Boudoukh and Saunders. Understanding Market, Credit, and Operational Risk: The Value at Risk Approach. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Chapter 2 – Quantifying Volatility in VaR Model
· Damodar N Gujarati, Essentials of Econometrics, 3 rd Edition ( New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Chapter 1 – The Nature and Scope of Econometrics
Chapter 2 – Review of Statistics I: Probability and Probability Distributions
Chapter 3 – Characteristics of Probability Distributions
Chapter 4 – Some Important Probability Distributions
Chapter 5 – Statistical Inference: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 6 – Basic Ideas of Linear Regression: The Two-Variable Model
Chapter 7 – The Two-Variable Model: Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 8 – Multiple Regression: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
· Paul Wilmott, Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance, 2nd Edition ( New York: Wiley & Sons, 2007).
Chapter 22 – Value at Risk
· Appendix A – All the Math You Need … and No More (An Executive Summary)
From the Market Risk Measurement and Management section:
· Jorion. Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk, 3rd ed.
Chapter 10 – VaR Methods
Chapter 11 – VaR Mapping
Chapter 14 – Stress Testing
· McDonald. Derivatives Markets, 2nd ed. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2006.
Chapter 6 – Commodity Forwards and Futures
· Saunders. Financial Institutions Management, 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Chapter 15 – Foreign Exchange Risk
· Stulz. Risk Management & Derivatives. Mason, Ohio: Thomson South-Western, 2003.
Chapter 4 – A Firm-Wide Approach to Risk Management
Chapter 8 – Identifying and Managing Cash Flow Exposures
Chapter 15 – The Demand and Supply for Derivative Products
· Tuckman. Fixed Income Securities, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 2002.
Chapter 1 – Bond Prices, Discount Factors, and Arbitrage
Chapter 2 – Bond Prices, Spot Rates, and Forward Rates
Chapter 3 – Yield to Maturity
Chapter 4 – Generalizations and Curve Fitting
Chapter 5 – One-Factor Measures of Price Sensitivity
Chapter 6 – Measures of Price Sensitivity Based on Parallel Yield Shifts
Chapter 7 – Key Rate and Bucket Exposures
Chapter 9 – The Science of Term Structure Models
From the Credit Risk Measurement and Management section:
· Christopher Culp. Structured Finance and Insurance: The Art of Managing Capital and Risk. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.
Chapter 16 – Securitization
· De Servigny and Renault. Measuring and Managing Credit Risk. New York: Mc-Graw-Hill, 2004.
Chapter 2 – External and Internal Ratings
Chapter 3 – Default Risk: Quantitative Methodologies
Chapter 4 – Loss Given Default
Chapter 6 – Cre dit Risk Portfolio Models
Chapter 7 – Credit Risk Management and Strategic Capital Allocation
· Dev, editor. Economic Capital: A Practitioner Guide. London: Risk Books, 2004.
Chapter 7 – Economic Capital for Counterparty Credit Risk, by Evan Picoult and David Lamb.
· Meissner. Credit Derivatives, Application, Pricing and Risk Management. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
Chapter 3 – Synthetic Structures
· Michael Ong, Internal Credit Risk Models: Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement, (London: Risk Books, 1999).
Chapter 4 – Loan Portfolios and Expected Loss
Chapter 5 – Unexpected Loss
Chapter 6 – Portfolio Effects: Risk Contributions and Unexpected Losses
· Saunders. Financial Institutions Management, 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Chapter 11 – Credit Risk: Individual Loan Risk
Chapter 16 – Sovereign Risk
· Stulz. Risk Management & Derivatives. Mason, Ohio: Thomson South-Western, 2003.
Chapter 18 – Credit Risks and Credit Derivatives
From the Operational and Integrated Risk Management section:
· Allen, Boudoukh and Saunders. Understanding Market, Credit, and Operational Risk: The Value at Risk Approach. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Chapter 5 – Extending the VaR Approach to Operational Risk
Crouhy, Galai, and Mark. Risk Management. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Chapter 14 – Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement
Culp. The Risk Management Process; Business Strategy and Tactics. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2001.
Chapter 17 – Identifying, Measuring, and Monitoring Liquidity Risk
· Davis (editor), Operational Risk: Practical Approaches to Implementation (London: Risk Books, 2005).
Chapter 12 – Aligning Basel II Operational Risk and Sarbanes Oxley 404 Projects, by Nick Bolton and Judson Berkey
De Servigny and Renault. Measuring and Managing Credit Risk. New York: Mc-Graw-Hill, 2004.
Chapter 10 – Regulation
· Dowd. Measuring market risk. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.
Chapter 16 - Model Risk
· Gallati. Risk Management and Capital Adequacy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Chapter 6 – Case Studies
· Saunders. Financial Institutions Management, 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Chapter 14 – Technology and Other Operational Risks
· Stulz. Risk Management & Derivatives. Mason, Ohio: Thomson South-Western, 2003.
Chapter 2 – Investors and Risk Management
Chapter 3 – Creating Value with Risk Management
From the Risk Management and Investment Management section:
· Amenc, Noel and Veronique Le Sourd. Portfolio Theory and Performance Analysis. West Sussex: Wiley, 2003.
Chapter 4 – The Capital Asset Pricing Model and Its Application to Performance Measurement
· Jorion. Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk, 3rd ed.
Chapter 7 – Portfolio Risk: Analytical Methods
Chapter 17 – VaR and Risk Budgeting in Investment Management
· Lars Jaeger, editor. The New Generation of Risk Management for Hedge Funds and Private Equity Investments. London: Euromoney Books, 2003.
Chapter 6 – Funds of Hedge Funds,by Sohail Jaffer
Chapter 27 – Style Drifts: Monitoring, Detection and Control, by Pi erre-Yves Moix
· Lars Jaeger. Through the Alpha Smoke Screens, A Guide to Hedge Fund Return Sources. New York: Euromoney Institutional Investor, 2005.
Chapter 5 – Individual Hedge Fund Strategies
· Richard Grinold and Ronald Kahn, Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk, 2nd Edition, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999).
Chapter 17 – Performance Analysis
Does NOT include the following Core Readings from the FRM 2008 Study Guide:
Not Included from the Market Risk Measurement and Management section:
· Hull . Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, 6th ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Chapter 3 – Hedging Strategies using Futures
Chapter 5 – Determination of Forward and Futures Prices
Chapter 6 – Interest Rate Markets
Chapter 7 – Swaps
Chapter 9 – Properties of Stock Options
Chapter 10 – Trading Strategies Involving Options
Chapter 11 – Binomial Trees
Chapter 13 – The Black-Scholes-Merton Model
Chapter 15 – The Greek Letters
Chapter 16 – Volatility Smiles
Chapter 22 – Exotic Options
