Implementing an enhanced approach to value-at-risk

London
1 & 2 July 2010

New York
12 & 13 August 2010

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Learning outcomes:

  • Address the internal need for a more reliable VaR model
  • Build meaningful scenarios which test VaR assumptions
  • Integrate the results of stressed VaR into economic capital calculations
  • Explore how you can incorporate liquidity risk into the VaR methodology
  • Investigate the advantages of combining VaR and EVT
  • Evaluate the Basel VaR backtesting methodology

Course dates & venues

LONDON 1 & 2 July 2010

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NEW YORK 12 & 13 August 2010

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Course tutors

LONDON

Ioannis Akkizidis, Senior Financial Risk Analyst, Product Management, FRS GLOBAL

Moises Gerstein, Director-Global Coordinator Credit Markets Quantitative Analytics, ING BANK

Ahmet Inci, Market Risk Controller, BANK VONTOBEL AG

Peter Quell, Team Head Portfolio Modelling, DZ BANK AG

Peter Schaller, Market Risk Manager, BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT

Eske Traberg Smidt, Senior Dealer, DANSKE BANK

Rolf Klaas, Risk Analyst, DEKABANK

NEW YORK

Jan Dash, President, J. DASH CONSULTANTS LLC

Ricardo Rivera, Supervising Risk Management Specialist, NEW YORK STATE BANKING DEPARTMENT

Bob Selvaggio, Senior Vice President, Risk Analysis, FIDELITY INVESTMENTS

Maria Shtrapenina, Senior Research and Risk Analyst, ASSET ALLIANCE CORPORATION

Akhtar Siddique, Deputy Director, Enterprise Risk Analysis Division, OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY

Tara Skinner, Senior Risk Consultant/Solutions Architect, SAS

Vivian Sung, Bank Supervision Group, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK

Course highlights:

  • VaR in light of the new regulatory framework developments
  • Ensuring VaR is more robust in a crisis
  • Complementing VaR with stress testing
  • Stressed VaR from regulatory and economic perspectives
  • Incorporating liquidity risk into VaR
  • Using Extreme Value Theory in VaR
  • Backtesting VaR models