Shirreff, David,  1947- <br/><br/>
Dealing with financial risk / 
David Shirreff. 
 - London :  Economist,  c2004. 
 - vii, 214 p. :  ill ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Pt. 1. Financial risk : an endless challenge -- 1. The growth of modern financial markets -- 2. Market theory -- 3. Derivatives and leverage -- 4. Temples to risk management -- 5. Models for everyman -- 6. Credit models get a thrashing -- 7. The rise of the firm-wide risk manager -- 8. Basel 2 is born - a new regulatory regime -- 9. In praise of liquidity, funding and time horizons -- 10. ART exhibitions -- 11. Sibylline books -- 12. The play's the thing -- 13. What lies ahead -- Pt. 2. Risk in practice : real and simulated examples -- 14. Lessons from Metallgesellschaft -- 15. Lessons from the collapse of long-term capital management -- 16. The crash of Mulhouse Brand -- 17. The Sigma affair. 
<br/><br/> "Dealing with Financial Risk makes sense of what financial risk management involves both in theory and in practice. It begins with the growth of financial markets and market theory, and goes on to look at some spectacular failures of risk management and the lessons that can be learned from them."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781861975911 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Risk management.<br/>Business enterprises--Finance.<br/>Risk management--Case studies.
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