The Public Debt Management Newtwork

The course on "ADVANCED RISK MANAGEMENT" is composed by four modules wrote by Dr. Cosio-Pascal and delivered on regular basis through Internet using the UNITAR e-Learning portal.

Each module has a set of questions that can be composed into a quiz, and there are also two case studies that the e-students have to dealt with, but those are only accessible through the regular participation to the e-Course.

This course is oriented toward those economists and financial specialists that would be dealing with financial risk management issues. However, this course may be interesting for all professionals dealing with treasury operations and to persons belonging to the academia who would be interested in financial risk management issues, because it provides a basic summary of the present tools in use in order to cope with financial risks.

• Module 1: Review of Basic Knowledge: Statistics, Basic Matrix Algebra Operations and Mathematics of Finance (Sample module) (PDF, 650 KB)
• Module 2: Traded Instruments and Typology of Risks
• Module 3: Basic Concerns of Risk Management and Corresponding Tools
• Module 4: Tools and Strategies for Decreasing Risk