The All-In-One FRM Exam Certification Prep Bundle

In this course, Professor James Forjan, PhD summarizes the first part of the FRM Part I book on Foundations of Risk Management. Prof. Forjan has taught undergraduate and graduate business classes for over 25 years and is a co-author of investment books. All of the important concepts included in this book are explained in detail and include many questions examples.

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• Know what the building blocks of risk management are
• Learn how firms manage financial risk
• Understand the governance of risk management
• Know credit risk transfer mechanisms
• Learn about the Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) & the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
• Learn about the Arbitrage Pricing Theory & Multifactor Models of Risk and Return

This course tackles the second part of the FRM Part I book on Foundations of Risk Management. Prof. Forjan has taught undergraduate and graduate business classes for over 25 years and is a co-author of investment books. All of the important concepts included in this book are explained in detail and include many questions examples.

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• Explain the potential benefits of having effective risk data aggregation & reporting
• Know the best practices for the governance & implementation of an ERM program
• Analyze the key factors that led to financial disasters
• Describe the build-up to the financial crisis & the factors that played an important role
• Compute & interpret tracking error, the information ratio, and the Sortino ratio

This course tackles the Book 2 of the FRM Part 1 Exam. You will understand how to use your financial calculator to make time of value money (TVM) calculations. It will help you learn or review all of the important concepts, from probability to hypothesis testing, for your FRM Part 1 exam.

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• Know the fundamentals of probability
• Understand & apply the concept of a mathematical expectation of a random variable
• Describe a mixture distribution & explain the creation and characteristics of mixture distributions
• Explain how a probability matrix can be used to express a probability mass function (PMF)
• Estimate the mean, variance, & standard deviation using sample data
• Interpret the results of hypothesis tests w/ a specific level of confidence

VaR was developed as an efficient, inexpensive method to determine the economic risk exposure of banks with complex diversified asset holdings. In this course, Professor James Forjan, PhD summarizes the second part of the FRM Part I book on Quantitative Analysis. Prof. Forjan has taught undergraduate and graduate business classes for over 25 years and is a co-author of investment books. All of the important concepts included in this book are explained in detail and include many questions examples.

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• Interpret the results of an OLS regression with a single explanatory variable
• Construct, apply, & interpret joint hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for multiple coefficients in regression
• Determine the conditions under which OLS is the best linear unbiased estimator
• Define the autocovariance function & the autocorrelation function
• Calculate the estimated trend value & form an interval forecast for a time series
• Calculate, distinguish, & convert between simple and continuously compounded returns
• Explain the use of antithetic & control variates in reducing Monte Carlo sampling error

In this course, Prof. James Forgan, PhD, summarizes the first 10 chapters from the Financial Markets and Products book so you can learn or review all of the important concepts for your FRM part 1 exam. It covers banks, insurance companies, fund management, foreign exchange, and more. James Forjan has taught college-level business classes for over 25 years.

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• Identify the major risks faced by a bank & how to hedge against those risks
• Describe how life insurance companies invest their funds
• Understand who a fund manager is & the benefits of using fund managers
• Differentiate between the two major types of derivatives
• Compare exchange-traded & OTC markets and describe their uses
• Explain how to use stock index futures contracts to change a stock portfolio’s beta
• Explain the limitations of using a duration-based hedging strategy

This course tackles the last 11 chapters of the FRM Part I book on Financial Markets and Products. Prof. Forjan has taught undergraduate and graduate business classes for over 25 years and is a co-author of investment books. All of the important concepts included in this book are explained in detail and include many questions examples.

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• Describe the types, positions variations, & typical underlying assets of options
• Identify the 6 factors that affect an option's price
• Explain the motivation to initiate a covered call or a protective put strategy
• Define & contrast exotic derivatives and plain vanilla derivatives
• Compare & contrast the major theories of the term structure of interest rates
• Explain a bond’s maturity date & how it impacts bond retirements
• Calculate a fixed rate mortgage payment, & its principal and interest components
• Calculate the conversion of a discount rate to a price for a US Treasury bill
• Provide examples of the mechanics of a central counterparty (CCP)

In this course, Prof. James Forgan, PhD summarizes the first 9 chapters from the Valuation and Risk Models book so you can learn or review all of the important concepts for your FRM part 1 exam. It covers financial risk measures, VaR, volatility, external and internal ratings, country risk, and more. All of the important concepts included in this book are explained in detail and include many questions examples.

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• Describe specialty risk measures & explain how VaR and ES are special cases of spectral risk measures
• Explain and give examples of linear & non-linear derivatives
• Distinguish between conditional & unconditional distributions
• Compare external & internal ratings approaches
• Identify sources of country risk
• Estimate the mean & standard deviation of credit losses
• Describe the different categories of operational risk & explain how each type of risk can arise
• Identify elements of clear & comprehensive policies, procedures, and documentation for stress testing

This is the last book for FRM Part 1 Exam. In this course, Prof. James Forgan, PhD summarizes the last 9 chapters from the Valuation and Risk Models book so you can learn or review all of the important concepts. It covers pricing conventions, interest rates, bond yields, binomial trees, and more. All of the important concepts included in this book are explained in detail and include many questions examples.

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• Define discount factor & use a discount function to compute present and future values
• Define spot rate & compute spot rates given discount factors
• Compute a bond’s YTM, given a bond structure & price
• Calculate the face amount of bonds required to hedge an option position given the DV01 of each
• Describe key-rate shift analysis
• Explain how the binomial model can be altered to price options
• Explain the lognormal property of stock prices
• Define & calculate the delta of a portfolio