2019-2020 / FINA0032-2

Financial Risk Management

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Specialised master in financial risk management4 crédits 

Lecturer

Laurent Balthazar, Pascal Van Wynendaele

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

* Introduction : définitions. * Typologie de risques. * Réglementation. * Un commun dénominateur de risque financier : la volatilité. * Produits et facteurs de risques financiers. * Modèles d'évaluation des actifs financiers. * Méthodes analytiques et statistiques d'estimation des risques financiers. * Economic Capital et Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP). * L'Asset and Liability Management (ALM) et le risque de liquidité. * Gouvernance et organisation du Risk management financier.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Face-to-face

Recommended or required readings

Assessment methods and criteria

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

Assessment subjects

Assessment methods

Contacts

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

Introduction to Financial Risk Management and risk taxonomy
Banking regulations, Basel 2, 2.5, 3 ... and 4 ?
The notions of volatility, dependence and correlation
The Value at Risk concept (VaR)
Characteristics and limits of VaR
The different Value at Risk approaches
Assets & Liabilities Management: Interest rate
Assets & Liabilities Management: Liquidity
Bank Management: Excel simulations 1
Bank Management: Excel simulations 2
Value at Risk: Excel Exercise
 

Assessment methods

Open book written exam in the form of a Moodle Test lasting 1h30. The exam consists of multiple choice questions and calculation questions with a numerical answer to be given.  This is an individual certification assessment.

Contacts

Laurent Balthazar : Laurent.Balthazar@ulg.ac.be
Pascal Van Wynendaele : Pascal.VanWynendaele@ulg.ac.be

Laurent Balthazar : Laurent.Balthazar@ulg.ac.be
Pascal Van Wynendaele : Pascal.VanWynendaele@ulg.ac.be

Items online

HEC- Part 1 Introduction V2016
Part 1 - Introduction