The Risk Management Process: Business Strategy and Tactics

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John Wiley & Sons, 2002 M02 28 - 624 pages
Integrates essential risk management practices with practical corporate business strategies
Focusing on educating readers on how to integrate risk management with corporate business strategy-not just on hedging practices-The Risk Management Process is the first financial risk management book that combines a detailed, big picture discussion of firm-wide risk management with a comprehensive discussion of derivatives-based hedging strategies and tactics.
An essential component of any corporate business strategy today, risk management has become a mainstream business process at the highest level of the world's largest financial institutions, corporations, and investment management groups. Addressing the need for a well-balanced book on the subject, respected leader and teacher on the subject Christopher Culp has produced a well-balanced, comprehensive reference text for a broad audience of financial institutions and agents, nonfinancial corporations, and institutional investors.
 

Contents

PART TWO Risk Management and Business Strategy
207
PART THREE The Tactics of Risk Control
455
NOTES
569

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About the author (2002)

CHRISTOPHER L. CULP is Managing Director at CP Risk Management LLC in Chicago and is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago. A former president of Risk Management Consulting Services, Inc. and senior examiner in the Supervision and Regulation Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Dr. Culp is a managing editor of Derivatives Quarterly and Senior Fellow in Financial Regulation with the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Dr. Culp holds a PhD in finance from the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago and a BA in economics from Johns Hopkins University.

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