INTRO TO QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT

Students without a strong math background and experience with Excel will require significant additional time and effort to achieve the learning objectives and work through the course assignments.

This course builds a foundation in the mathematics and statistics of risk management. Students are empowered to understand the output of quantitative analysts and to do their own analytics. Concepts are presented in Excel and students will have the opportunity to practice those concepts in Excel, R or Python.

This course is a required prerequisite for registering for the following courses: Coding for Risk Management, Financial Risk Management, Quantitative Risk Management, Credit Risk Management, Market Risk Management, Credit Risk Analytics, Applied Coding for Risk Management, Derivatives Risk Management, Model Risk Management, ERM Modeling, and Machine Learning for Risk Management.