This course teaches you how to calculate the return of a portfolio of securities as well as quantify the market risk of that portfolio, an important skill for financial market analysts in banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, and other financial services and investment firms. Using the R programming language with Microsoft Open R and RStudio, you will use the two main tools for calculating the market risk of stock portfolios: Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). You will need a beginner-level understanding of R programming to complete the assignments of this course.
Financial Risk Management with R
Financial Risk Management with R
This course is part of Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization
Instructor: David Hsieh
Sponsored by Duke Alumni
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14 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
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There are 4 modules in this course
This module goes over the use of R and RStudio, retrieving data from different data sources (FRED at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Yahoo!Finance), and the calculation of returns.
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5 videos2 readings7 assignments
This module covers how to calculate value-at-risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES) when returns are normally distributed.
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4 videos1 reading8 assignments
This module covers how to test for normality of returns, and how to calculate value-at-risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES) when returns are not normally distributed.
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4 videos1 reading7 assignments
This module covers how to test for the presence of volatility clustering, and how to calculate value-at-risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES) when returns exhibit volatility clustering.
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9 videos1 reading6 assignments
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Awesome introduction course for Risk Management who have some expertise in statistics and finance
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Very useful course that sharpened my understanding of Risk Management. More detailed notes would be more helpful in the future, otherwise this course is amazing.
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