LEVEL II
Readings for Market Risk Measurement and Management 28. John Hull, Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, 7th Edition.
• Chapter 18 – Volatility Smiles
• Chapter 24 – Exotic Options
29. Bruce Tuckman, Fixed Income Securities, 2nd Edition.
• 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
• Chapter 21 – Mortgage‐Backed Securities
30. Philippe Jorion, Value‐at‐Risk, 3rd Edition.
• Chapter 6 – Backtesting VaR
• Chapter 11 – VaR Mapping
31. Kevin Dowd, Measuring Market Risk, 2nd Edition (West Sussex, England: Wiley, 2005).
• Chapter 2—Measures of Financial Risk
• Chapter 5 Appendix—Modeling Dependence: Correlations and Copulas
• Chapter 7 – Parametric Approaches (II): Extreme Value
32. Frank Fabozzi, Handbook of Mortgage Backed Securities 6th edition (New York: Mcgraw Hill, 2006).
• Chapter 1—An Overview of Mortgages and the Mortgage M
Readings for Credit Risk Measurement and Management 33. Adam Ashcroft and Til Schuermann, “Understanding the Securitization of Subprime Mortgage Credit,” Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, no. 318 (March 2008). Copy of article is available at www.GARPDigitalLibrary.org.
34. Eduardo Canabarro and Darrell Duffie, “Measuring and Marking Counterparty Risk” in ALM of Financial Institutions, ed. Leo Tilman (London: Euromoney Institutional Investor, 2003). Copy of article is available at www.GARPDigitalLibrary.org.
35. Christopher Culp, Structured Finance and Insurance: The Art of Managing Capital and Risk (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, 2006).
• Chapter 12 – Credit Derivatives and Credit‐Linked Notes
• Chapter 13 – The Structuring Process
• Chapter 16 – Securitization
• Chapter 17 – Cash Collateralized Debt Obligations
• Chapter 18 – Synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligations
36. J. Caouette, E. Altman, P. Narayanan, R. Nimmo, Managing Credit Risk, 2nd Edition.
• Chapter 18 – Introduction to Portfolio Approaches
• Chapter 19 – Economic Capital and Capital Allocation
• Chapter 20 – Application of Portfolio Approaches
37. de Servigny and Renault, Measuring and Managing Credit Risk.
• Chapter 3 – Default Risk: Quantitative Methodologies
• Chapter 4 – Loss Given Default
38. Hull, Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, 7th Edition.
• Chapter 22—Credit Risk
• Chapter 23—Credit Derivatives
39. L. Allen, J. Boudoukh and A. Saunders, Understanding Market, Credit and Operational Risk
• Chapter 4 – Extending the VaR Approach to Non‐tradable Loans
40. Stulz, Risk Management & Derivatives.
• Chapter 18 – Credit Risks and Credit Derivatives
41. Michael Ong, Internal Credit Risk Models: Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement.
• Chapter 6 – Portfolio Effects: Risk Contributions and Unexpected Losses
42. “Studies on credit risk concentration: an overview of the issues and a synopsis of the results from the Research Task Force project” (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Publication, November 2006). Copy of the article is available at www.GARPDigitalLibrary.org.
Readings for Operational and Integrated Risk Management 43. Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai and Robert Mark, Risk Management (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 2001).
• Chapter 14 – Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement
44. Kevin Dowd, Measuring Market Risk, 2nd Edition.
• Chapter 14 – Estimating Liquidity Risks
• Chapter 16 – Model Risk
45. Ellen 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.
46. de Servigny and Renault, Measuring and Managing Credit Risk.
• Chapter 10 – Regulation
47. Andrew Kuritzkes, Til Schuermann and Scott M. Weiner. “Risk Measurement, Risk Management and Capital Adequacy in Financial Conglomerates,” in Brookings‐Wharton Papers on Financial Services Robert E. Litan and Richard Herring (eds) (Brookings Institutional Press, Washington, DC: 2003). Copy of article is available at www.GARPDigitalLibrary.org.
48. Brian W. Nocco and René M. Stulz, “Enterprise Risk Management: Theory and Practice,” Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 18, No. 4 (2006): 8 – 20. Copy of the article is available at www.GARPDigitalLibrary.org.
49. Falko Aue and Michael Kalkbrener, 2007, “LDA at Work”, Deutsche Bank White Paper. Copy of the article is available at www.GARPDigitalLibrary.org.
50. Til Schuermann and Andrew Kuritzkes, “What We Know, Don’t Know and Can’t Know About Bank Risk: A View from the Trenches”. http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/economists/schuermann/Kuritzkes_Schuermann_KUU_23Mar2008.pdf
51. Anthony Saunders and Marcia Millon Cornett, Financial Institutions Management, 6th Edition.
• Chapter 17 – Liquidity Risk
Readings for Basel Reference Candidates are expected to understand the objective and general structure of the Basel II Accord and general application of the various approaches for calculating minimum capital requirements. Candidates are not expected to memorize specific details like risk weights for different assets.
52. “Basel II: International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: A Revised Framework – Comprehensive Version” (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Publication, June 2006). Copy of the article is available at www.GARPDigitalLibrary.org.
53. “An Explanatory Note on the Basel II IRB Risk Weight Functions” (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Publication, July 2005). Copy of the article is available at www.GARPDigitalLibrary.org.
54. “Principles for Sound Liquidity Risk Management and Supervision” (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Publication, September 2008) http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs144.htm.
55. “Guidelines for Computing Capital for Incremental Risk in the Trading Book – Consultative Document” (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Publication, January 2009) http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs149.pdf.
56. “Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework– Consultative Document” (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Publication, January 2009) http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs148.pdf.
Readings for Risk Management and Investment Management 57. R. Grinold and R. Kahn, Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk, 2nd Edition.
• Chapter 14 – Portfolio Construction
• Chapter 17 – Performance Analysis
58. Lars Jaeger (ed), The New Generation of Risk Management for Hedge Funds and Private Equity Investments (London: Euromoney Institutional Investor, 2003).
• Chapter 6 – Funds of Hedge Funds, by Sohail Jaffer
• Chapter 27 – Style Drifts: Monitoring, Detection and Control, by Pierre‐Yves Moix
59. Lars Jaeger, Through the Alpha Smoke Screens: A Guide to Hedge Fund Returns (New York: Institutional Investor Books, 2005).
• Chapter 5 – Individual Hedge Fund Strategies
60. Jorion, Value at Risk, 3rd Edition.
• Chapter 7 – Portfolio Risk: Analytical Methods
• Chapter 17 – VaR and Risk Budgeting in Investment Management
61. René M. Stulz, “Hedge Funds: Past, Present and Future,” Copy of article available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=939629.
62. Robert Litterman and the Quantitative Resources Group, Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium Approach (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons: 2003).
• Chapter 17—Risk Monitoring and Performance Measurement
63. Leslie Rahl (ed), Risk Budgeting: A New Approach to Investing (London: Risk Books, 2004).
• Chapter 6 – Risk Budgeting for Pension Funds and Investment Managers Using VaR, by Michelle McCarthy
Readings for Current Issues in Financial Markets Gary Gorton, “Information, Liquidity, and the (Ongoing) Panic of 2007,” (January 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1324195
2. Raghuram Rajan, “Has Financial Development Made The World Riskier?” (September 2005). Available at http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/raghuram.rajan/research/finrisk.pdf.
3. FSA, “FSA moves to enhance supervision in wake of Northern Rock: Executive Summary.” Available at http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/exec_summary.pdf.
4. Senior Supervisory Group, “Observations on Risk Management Practices during the Recent Market Turbulence,” (March 2008). Available at: www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/banking/2008/ssg_risk_mgt_doc_final.pdf.
5. John Martin, “A Primer on the Role of Securitization in the Credit Market Crisis of 2007,” (January 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1324349.
6. UBS, “Shareholder Report on UBS’s Write‐Downs,” (April 2008). Available at: www.ubs.com/1/ShowMedia/investors/shareholderreport?contentId=140333&name=080418ShareholderReport.pdf.
7. Andrew G. Haldane, “Why Banks Failed the Stress Test,” (February 2009). Available at: www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/speeches/2009/speech374.pdf.
8. Andrew Lo, “Hedge Funds, Systemic Risk, and the Financial Crisis of 2007‐2008: Written Testimony for the House Oversight Committee Hearing on Hedge Funds,” (November 2008). Avail