EXECUTIVE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN RISK MANAGEMENT


Content & Dates 2010 - 2011

Location Dates Subject Topics Faculty
Distance Learning

Pre-program

Current Issues in Risk Management    

 

Amsterdam Institute of
Finance

Course 1
April 7, 2010

Corporate Finance

  • Company Valuation : the general framework
  • Estimating Free Cash Flows and Continuing Value
  • Estimating the Weighted Average Cost of Capital
  • Leverage, Risk, Return and Earnings per share
  • Determinants of Optimal Capital Structure  
Theo Vermaelen,
INSEAD
Course 2
April 8 - 10, 2010
Quantitative Techniques in Risk Management I
  • Risk and Equity Markets
    - risk analytics
    - risk management
  • Risk and fixed income markets
Pierre Hillion,
INSEAD
Course 3
April 12 - 14, 2010
Quantitative Techniques in Risk Management II
  • Forwards and futures
  • Swaps
  • Basics of options
  • Option pricing
    - the binomial approach
    - the Black-Scholes approach
  • Option Greeks and risk management
Lucie Tepla,
INSEAD

 

 

NYU Stern

Course 4
July 26 - 29, 2010

Credit Risk Management and Credit Derivatives

  • Measuring credit risk
  • Credit risk capital
  • Rating systems
  • Credit risk modeling
  • Predicting financial distress
  • Corporate restructuring and leveraged finance
Viral Acharya and Anthony Saunders,
NYU Stern

Course 5
July 30 - 31, 2010

Bankruptcy and Reorganization
  • Bankruptcy and the credit risk industry
  • High yield and distressed markets
Edward Altman,
NYU Stern

Course 6
August 2 - 6, 2010

Strategic, Operational and Reputational Risk
  • Management, analysis and hedging of operational risk
  • Strategic framework of risk control
  • Truth, disclosure and market efficiency
  • Fiduciaries and their responsibilities
  • Social responsibility and shareholder value
  • Governance, compliance and conflicts of interest
Ingo Walter,
NYU Stern
Distance Learning October 1, 2010 Current Issues in Risk Management    

 

Amsterdam Institute of
Finance

Course 7
November 29 - December 1, 2010

Market Risk, VaR Modeling and RAROC
  • Economic capital and regulatory capital
  • RAROC and risk-adjusted performance
  • VaR models in practice
  • Stress testing and back testing
Dan Galai,
Hebrew University

Course 8
December 2 - 4, 2010

Hedging Market Risk
  • Price volatilities across markets and across time
  • Hedging market risk using derivative instruments
  • Hedging and liquidity risks
  • Linkages between market risk, credit and country risk
Günter Franke,
University of Konstanz

 

Amsterdam Institute of
Finance

Course 9
February 7 - 9, 2011
Sovereign and Forex Risk Management
  • Foreign exchange markets
  • Managing foreign exchange risk
  • Managing country risk
Richard Levich,
NYU Stern

Course 10
February 10 - 12, 2011

Risk and Structured Finance

  • Structured finance techniques and asset-backed securities
  • Mortgage-based securities: residential and commercial
  • Securitization: CDOs and synthetics

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh,
NYU Stern

Otto van Hemert,
VP & Head of Fixed Income Arbitrage, AQR Capital Management

 

Distance Learning

March 4, 2011

Current Issues in Risk Management

   

 

Amsterdam Institute of
Finance

Presentation of
Integrative Project

April 5, 2011

The integrative risk project requires program participants to build on their own professional experience and their exposure to the academic content of the program to create a meaningful project that demonstrates their ability to take an integrated view of risk management in global finance.

Graduation
April 6, 2011

 



 

 
 
   
   
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