Actuarial Notes

Chapter 8 of Quantitative Enterprise Risk Management

By Mary R. Hardy and David Saunders · Cambridge University Press · 2022 · CP312-103-25

Study guide: Exam CP-312

Market Risk Models, the eighth chapter (pages 227 to 261) of Quantitative Enterprise Risk Management by Mary R. Hardy and David Saunders of the University of Waterloo, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. The chapter takes in the empirical behaviour of equity prices, geometric Brownian motion, the independent lognormal model, the GARCH model and regime-switching models, and then fitting models to returns data and choosing a model.

On the syllabus

  • Exam CP-312 — CP312-103-25: Chapter 8 of Quantitative Enterprise Risk Management, Hardy and Saunders, 2022 (8.1-8.6), for outcome 2a (Topic 2).

8 Market Risk Models

  • 8.1 Summary
  • 8.2 Introduction
  • 8.3 Empirical Behaviour of Equity Prices
  • 8.4 Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM)
  • 8.5 The Independent Lognormal Model (ILN)
  • 8.6 The GARCH Model
  • 8.7 Regime-Switching Models
  • 8.8 Fitting Models to Returns Data
  • 8.9 Choosing a Model
  • 8.10 Notes and Further Reading
  • 8.11 Exercises

Related readings

  • ASTAM-22-23 - Chapter 5 of Quantitative Enterprise Risk Management — another chapter of the same book, assigned for the ASTAM exam

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