FRM Study Guide 2013-Web PDF

2013
FRM
Examination
Study Guide
The designation recognized
by risk management
professionals worldwide
2013 Financial Risk Manager (FRM) Examination Study Guide
Topic Outline, Readings, Test Weightings
It is rare that a risk manager will be faced
The Study Guide sets forth primary topics
with an issue that can immediately be slot-
and subtopics covered in the FRM Exam.
ted into one category. In the real world, a
The topics were selected by the FRM
risk manager must be able to identify any
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number of risk-related issues and be able
who work in practice today have to master.
to deal with them effectively. As such, the
The topics and their respective weightings
FRM Examination is also a comprehensive
are reviewed yearly to ensure the FRM
examination, testing a risk professional on
Exam is kept timely and relevant.
a number of risk management concepts

and approaches.
The Study Guide also contains a full listing

of all of the readings that are recommended
Readings
as preparation for the FRM Examination.
Questions for the FRM Examination are
Key Concepts appear as bullet points at
related to and supported by the readings
the beginning of each section and are
listed under each topic outline. These read-
intended to help candidates identify the
ings were selected by the FRM Committee
major themes and knowl-
to assist candidates in their review of the
The FRM Examination is
edge areas associated with
subjects covered by the exam. It is strongly
a comprehensive examina-
that section.
suggested that candidates review these

readings in depth prior to sitting for the
tion, testing a risk professional on a number of risk
FRM Examination Approach
exam. All of the readings listed in the FRM
management concepts and
The FRM Exam is a practice-
Study Guide are available through GARP.
approaches.
oriented examination. Its
Further information can be found at the
questions are derived from
GARP website.
a combination of theory, as set forth in the

readings, and real-world work experience.
FRM Exam Prep Providers
Candidates are expected to understand risk
Some candidates may want to more for-
management concepts and approaches
mally review the materials with FRM Exam
and how they would apply to a risk man-
Prep Providers (EPPs). A list of EPPs that
agers day-to-day activities.
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FRM PART ITOPICS AND READINGS

FOUNDATIONS OF RISK MANAGEMENTPart I Exam Weight | 20%
The role of risk management
Basic risk types, measurement and management tools
Creating value with risk management
Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT)
Standard and non-standard forms of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
Index models
Risk-adjusted performance measurement
Enterprise Risk Management
Financial disasters and risk management failures
Case studies
Ethics and the GARP Code of Conduct
Readings for Foundations of Risk Management

1.
Risk Taking: A Corporate Governance Perspective, (International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, June 2012).
Freely available on the GARP Digital Library.
2.
Edwin J. Elton, Martin J. Gruber, Stephen J. Brown and William N. Goetzmann, Modern Portfolio Theory and
Investment Analysis, 8th Edition (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009).
3.
Chapter 5 .............................Delineating Efficient Portfolios
Chapter 13............................The Standard Capital Asset Pricing Model
Chapter 14............................Nonstandard Forms of Capital Asset Pricing Models
Noel Amenc and Veronique Le Sourd, Portfolio Theory and Performance Analysis (West Sussex, England:
John Wiley & Sons, 2003).
Chapter 4, Section 4.2 only .............................Applying the CAPM to Performance Measurement: Single-Index
Performance Measurement Indicators
4.
Anthony Tarantino and Deborah Cernauskas, Risk Management in Finance: Six Sigma and Other Next Generation
Techniques (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009).
5.
Chapter 3 .............................Information Risk and Data Quality Management
Steve Allen, Financial Risk Management: A Practitioners Guide to Managing Market and Credit Risk
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2003).
6.
Chapter 4 .............................Financial Disasters
Ren Stulz, Risk Management Failures: What are They and When Do They Happen? Fisher College of Business
Working Paper Series, (Oct 2008).
7.
GARP Code of Conduct.

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSISPart I Exam Weight | 20%
Discrete and continuous probability distributions
Population and sample statistics
Statistical inference and hypothesis testing
Estimating the parameters of distributions
Graphical representation of statistical relationships
Linear regression with single and multiple regressors
The Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method
Interpreting and using regression coefficients, the t-statistic, and other output
Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals
Heteroskedasticity and multicollinearity
Monte Carlo Methods
Estimating correlation and volatility using EWMA and GARCH models
Volatility term structures
Readings for Quantitative Analysis

8.
Michael Miller, Mathematics and Statistics for Financial Risk Management (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2012).
9.
10.
Chapter 2 .............................Probabilities
Chapter 3 .............................Basic Statistics
Chapter 4 .............................Distributions
Chapter 5 .............................Hypothesis Testing & Confidence Intervals
James Stock and Mark Watson, Introduction to Econometrics, Brief Edition (Boston: Pearson Education, 2008).
Chapter 4 .............................Linear Regression with One Regressor
Chapter 5 .............................Regression with a Single Regressor: Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals
Chapter 6 .............................Linear Regression with Multiple Regressors
Chapter 7 .............................Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals in Multiple Regression
Philippe Jorion, Value-at-Risk:The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk, 3rd Edition.
(New York: McGraw Hill, 2007).
11.
Chapter 12 ............................Monte Carlo Methods
John Hull, Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, 8th Edition (New York: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2012).
Chapter 22 ...........................Estimating Volatilities and Correlations
FINANCIAL MARKETS AND PRODUCTSPart I Exam Weight | 30%
Mechanics of OTC and exchange markets
Forwards, futures, swaps and options
Mechanics
Pricing and factors that affect it
Uses in hedging and hedging strategies
Delivery options
Interest rates and measures of interest rate sensitivity
Derivatives on fixed income securities, interest rates, foreign exchange, and equities
Commodity derivatives
Foreign exchange risk
Corporate bonds
Rating agencies
Readings for Financial Markets and Products

12.
13.
Hull, Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, 8th Edition.
Chapter 1 ..............................Introduction
Chapter 2 .............................Mechanics of Futures Markets
Chapter 3 .............................Hedging Strategies Using Futures
Chapter 4 .............................Interest Rates
Chapter 5 .............................Determination of Forward and Futures Prices
Chapter 6 .............................Interest Rate Futures
Chapter 7 .............................Swaps
Chapter 10 ...........................Properties of Stock Options
Chapter 11 .............................Trading Strategies Involving Options
Robert McDonald, Derivatives Markets, 3rd Edition (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2013).
14.
Chapter 6 .............................Commodity Forwards and Futures
Helyette Geman, Commodities and Commodity Derivatives: Modeling and Pricing for Agriculturals, Metals and
Energy (West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
15.
Chapter 1.....................................Fundamentals of Commodity Spot and Futures Markets: Instruments, Exchanges and Strategies
Anthony Saunders and Marcia Millon Cornett, Financial Institutions Management: A Risk Management Approach,
7th Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011).
16.
Frank Fabozzi (editor), The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities, 8th Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012).
17.
Chapter 14............................Foreign Exchange Risk
Chapter 12 ............................Corporate Bonds, by Frank Fabozzi, Steven Mann and Adam Cohen
John B. Caouette, Edward I. Altman, Paul Narayanan, and Robert W.J. Nimmo, Managing Credit Risk, 2nd Edition
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008).
Chapter 6 .............................The Rating Agencies
VALUATION AND RISK MODELSPart I Exam Weight | 30%
Value-at-Risk (VaR)
Applied to stock, currencies, and commodities
Applied to linear and non-linear derivatives
Applied to fixed income securities with embedded options
Structured Monte Carlo, stress testing, and scenario analysis
Limitations as a risk measure
Coherent risk measures
Volatility Models
Option valuation
Pricing options using binomial trees
The Black-Scholes-Merton Model
The Greeks
Fixed income valuation
Discount factors, spot rates, forward rates, and yield to maturity
Arbitrage and the Law of One Price
One factor measures of price sensitivity
Duration, DV01, and convexity
Key rate exposures
Hedging and immunization
Country and sovereign risk models and management
Fundamental analysis
External and internal credit ratings
Expected and unexpected losses
Operational risk
Stress testing and scenario analysis
Readings for Valuation and Risk Models

18.
Linda Allen, Jacob Boudoukh and Anthony Saunders, Understanding Market, Credit and Operational Risk:
The Value at Risk Approach (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004).
19.
Chapter 2 .............................Quantifying Volatility in VaR Models
Chapter 3 .............................Putting VaR to Work
Chapter 12 ............................Binomial Trees
Chapter 14............................The Black-Scholes-Merton Model
Chapter 18............................The Greek Letters
20.
21.
Bruce Tuckman, Fixed Income Securities, 3rd Edition (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2011).
Chapter 1 ..............................Prices, Discount Factors, and Arbitrage
Chapter 2 .............................Spot, Forward and Par Rates
Chapter 3 .............................Returns, Spreads and Yields
Chapter 4 .............................One-Factor Risk Metrics and Hedges
Chapter 5 .............................Multi-Factor Risk Metrics and Hedges
Chapter 6 .............................Empirical Approaches to Risk Metrics and Hedges
Caouette, Altman, Narayanan, and Nimmo, Managing Credit Risk, 2nd Edition (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008).
22.
Arnaud de Servigny and Olivier Renault, Measuring and Managing Credit Risk (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004).
23.
24.
Chapter 4 .............................Loan Portfolios and Expected Loss
Chapter 5 .............................Unexpected Loss
Kevin Dowd, Measuring Market Risk, 2nd Edition (West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
Chapter 18............................Operational Risk
Jorion, Value-at-Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk, 3rd Edition.
27.
Chapter 2 .............................Measures of Financial Risk
John Hull, Risk Management and Financial Institutions, 2nd Edition (Boston: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010).
26.
Chapter 2 .............................External and Internal Ratings
Michael Ong, Internal Credit Risk Models: Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement (London: Risk Books, 2003).
25.
Chapter 23...........................Country Risk Models
Chapter 14............................Stress Testing
Principles for Sound Stress Testing Practices and Supervision (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Publication, May 2009).
FRM PART IITOPICS AND READINGS

MARKET RISK MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENTPart II Exam Weight | 25%
Fixed income securities
Risk-neutral pricing
Term structure models
Mortgages and mortgage-backed securities (MBS)
Structure, markets, and valuation
VaR and other risk measures
VaR mapping
Backtesting VaR
Expected shortfall (ES) and other coherent risk measures
Parametric and non-parametric methods of estimation
Modeling dependence: correlations and copulas
Extreme value theory (EVT)
Volatility: smiles and term structures
Exotic options
Readings for Market Risk Measurement and Management

28.
29.
30.
Chapter 19............................Volatility Smiles
Chapter 25...........................Exotic Options
Tuckman, Fixed Income Securities, 3rd Edition.
Chapter 7 .............................The Science of Term Structure Models
Chapter 8 .............................The Evolution of Short Rates and the Shape of the Term Structure
Chapter 9 .............................The Art of Term Structure Models: Drift
Chapter 10 ...........................The Art of Term Structure Models: Volatility and Distribution
Pietro Veronesi, Fixed Income Securities (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010).
Chapter 8 .............................Basics of Residential Mortgage Backed Securities
31.
32.
Chapter 6 .............................Backtesting VaR
Chapter 11 .............................VaR Mapping
Kevin Dowd, Measuring Market Risk, 2nd Edition.
33.
Chapter 3 .............................Estimating Market Risk Measures
Chapter 4 .............................Non-parametric Approaches
Chapter 5 .............................AppendixModeling Dependence: Correlations and Copulas
Chapter 7 .............................Parametric Approaches (II): Extreme Value
Frank Fabozzi, Anand Bhattacharya, William Berliner, Mortgage-Backed Securities, 3rd Edition
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2011).
34.
Chapter 1 ..............................Overview of Mortgages and the Consumer Mortgage Market
Chapter 2 .............................Overview of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Market
Chapter 10 ...........................Techniques for Valuing MBS
Messages from the Academic Literature on Risk Measurement for the Trading Book, Basel Committee on
Banking Supervision, Working Paper, No. 19, Jan 2011.
CREDIT RISK MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENTPart II Exam Weight | 25%
Subprime mortgages and securitization
Counterparty risk
Mitigation techniques
Credit exposure profiles
Collateralization and netting effects
Pricing credit value adjustments (CVA)
Credit derivatives
Types and uses
Mechanics and structure
Valuation
Spread curves
Structured finance and securitization
The structuring and securitization process
Agency problems and moral hazard in the securitization process
Tranching, subordination, and support
Default risk
Quantitative methodologies
Estimating defaults and recoveries from market prices and spreads
Expected and unexpected losses
Credit VaR
Readings for Credit Risk Measurement and Management

35.
Adam Ashcroft and Til Schuermann, Understanding the Securitization of Subprime Mortgage Credit, Federal
Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, No. 318 (March 2008).
36.
Christopher Culp, Structured Finance and Insurance: The Art of Managing Capital and Risk
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006).
Chapter 12 ............................Credit Derivatives and Credit-Linked Notes
Chapter 13............................The Structuring Process
Chapter 16............................Securitization
Chapter 17 ............................Cash Collateralized Debt Obligations
37.
de Servigny and Renault, Measuring and Managing Credit Risk.
38.
39.
Chapter 3 .............................Default Risk: Quantitative Methodologies
Allan Malz, Financial Risk Management: Models, History, and Institutions (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2011).
Chapter 6 .............................Credit and Counterparty Risk
Chapter 7 .............................Spread Risk and Default Intensity Models
Chapter 8 .............................Portfolio Credit Risk
Chapter 9 .............................Structured Credit Risk
Jon Gregory, Counterparty Credit Risk: The New Challenge for Global Financial Markets
(West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2010).
40.
Chapter 2 .............................Defining Counterparty Credit Risk
Chapter 3 .............................Mitigating Counterparty Credit Risk
Chapter 4 .............................Quantifying Counterparty Credit Exposure, I
Chapter 5 .............................Quantifying Counterparty Credit Exposure, II: The Impact of Collateral
Chapter 7 .............................Pricing Counterparty Credit Risk, I
Ren Stulz, Risk Management & Derivatives (Florence, KY: Thomson South-Western, 2002).
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Chapter 18............................Credit Risks and Credit Derivatives
OPERATIONAL AND INTEGRATED RISK MANAGEMENTPart II Exam Weight | 25%
Calculating and applying risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC)
Understanding, managing, and mitigating liquidity risk
Understanding and managing model risk
Evaluating the performance of risk management systems
Validating VaR models
Enterprise risk management (ERM)
Economic capital
Operational loss data
Frequency and severity distributions
Modeling and fitting distributions
Data sufficiency
Extrapolating beyond the data
Failure mechanics of dealer banks
Risk appetite frameworks
Regulation and the Basel Accords
Minimum capital requirements
Methods for calculating credit, market, and operational risk
Liquidity risk management
Stress testing
Revisions to the Basel II Accord
The Basel III framework
Comparing Basel II/III to Solvency II
Readings for Operational and Integrated Risk Management

41.
Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai and Robert Mark, Risk Management (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001).
42.
Chapter 14............................Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement
Range of Practices and Issues in Economic Capital Frameworks, (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Publication, March 2009).
43.
44.
45.
Dowd, Measuring Market Risk, 2nd Edition.
Chapter 14............................Estimating Liquidity Risks
Chapter 16............................Model Risk
Malz, Financial Risk Management: Models, History, and Institutions.
Chapter 11, Section 11.1 ......Assessing the Quality of Risk Measures
Chapter 12 ............................Liquidity and Leverage
Brian Nocco and Ren Stulz, Enterprise Risk Management: Theory and Practice, Journal of Applied Corporate
Finance 18, No. 4 (2006): 820.
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46.
Mo Chaudhury, A Review of the Key Issues in Operational Risk Capital Modeling, The Journal of Operational Risk,
Volume 5/Number 3, Fall 2010: pp. 37-66.
47.
Eric Cope, Giulio Mignola, Gianluca Antonini and Roberto Ugoccioni, Challenges and Pitfalls in Measuring
Operational Risk from Loss Data, The Journal of Operational Risk, Volume 4/Number 4, Winter 2009/10: pp. 3-27.
48.
Darrell Duffie, 2010. Failure Mechanics of Dealer Banks, Journal of Economic Perspectives 24:1, 51-72.
49.
Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk, (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Publication, June 2011).
50.
Observations on Developments in Risk Appetite Frameworks and IT Infrastructure, Senior Supervisors Group,
December 2010.
51.
Til Schuermann. Stress Testing Banks, April 2012.

Readings for Regulatory Reference*

Candidates are expected to understand the objective and general structure of important international regulatory frameworks and general application of the various approaches for calculating minimum capital requirements.
52.
Basel II: International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: A Revised Framework
Comprehensive Version, (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Publication, June 2006).
53.
Basel III: A Global Regulatory Framework for More Resilient Banks and Banking SystemsRevised Version,
(Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Publication, June 2011).
54.
Basel III: International Framework for Liquidity Risk Measurement, Standards and Monitoring, (Basel Committee
on Banking Supervision Publication, December 2010).
55.
Revisions to the Basel II Market Risk FrameworkUpdated as of 31 December 2010, (Basel Committee on
Banking Supervision Publication, February 2011).
56.
Operational RiskSupervisory Guidelines for the Advanced Measurement Approaches, (Basel Committee on
Banking Supervision Publication, June 2011).
57.
Nadine Gatzert, Hannah Wesker, A Comparative Assessment of Basel II/III and Solvency II, Working Paper,
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Version: October 2011.
* All readings in this section are freely available on the GARP Digital Library.
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RISK MANAGEMENT AND INVESTMENT MANAGEMENTPart II Exam Weight | 15%
Portfolio construction
Portfolio-based performance analysis
Tests of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
Portfolio and component VaR
Risk budgeting
Risk monitoring and performance measurement
Hedge funds
Hedge fund strategies
Due diligence and fraud detection
Liquidity
Risk management of hedge funds
Private equity
Readings for Risk Management and Investment Management

58.
Richard Grinold and Ronald Kahn, Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior
Returns and Controlling Risk, 2nd Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000).
59.
60.
Chapter 14............................Portfolio Construction
Chapter 7 .............................Portfolio Risk: Analytical Methods
Chapter 17 ............................VaR and Risk Budgeting in Investment Management
Robert Litterman and the Quantitative Resources Group, Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium
Approach (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003).
61.
62.
Chapter 17 ............................Risk Monitoring and Performance Measurement
Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, and Alan J. Marcus, Investments, 9th Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010).
Chapter 13............................Empirical Evidence on Security Returns
Chapter 24...........................Portfolio Performance Evaluation
David P. Stowell, An Introduction to Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity (Academic Press, 2010).
Chapter 11 .............................Overview of Hedge Funds
Chapter 12 ............................Hedge Fund Investment Strategies
Chapter 16............................Overview of Private Equity
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63.
G. Constantinides, M. Harris and R. Stulz, eds., Handbook of the Economics of Finance, Volume 2B
(Oxford: Elsevier, 2013).
64.
Chapter 17 ............................Hedge Funds, by William Fung and David Hsieh
Andrew W. Lo, Risk Management for Hedge Funds: Introduction and Overview, Financial Analysts Journal,
Vol. 57, No. 6 (Nov to Dec, 2001), pp. 16-33.
65.
Stephen Brown, William Goetzmann, Bing Liang, Christopher Schwarz, Trust and Delegation, May 28, 2010.
66.
Greg N. Gregoriou and Franois-Serge Lhabitant, Madoff: A Riot of Red Flags, December, 2008.
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CURRENT ISSUES IN FINANCIAL MARKETSPart II Exam Weight | 10%
Sovereign risk
The European credit crisis and its global impact
The Icelandic banking collapse
Risk measurement and complexity
Normality and fat tails
Regulatory and modeling complexity
Financial Innovation and Systemic Risk Management
Exchange-traded funds and the Flash Crash
Readings for Current Issues in Financial Markets*

67.
Jaime Caruana and Stefan Avdjiev, Sovereign Creditworthiness and Financial Stability: An International
Perspective. Banque de France Financial Stability Review, No. 16 (April 2012), pp. 71-85.
68.
Li Lian Ong and Martin ihk, Of Runes and Sagas: Perspectives on Liquidity Stress Testing Using an Iceland
Example. IMF Working Paper WP/10/156, July 2010.
69.
Andrew G. Haldane and Benjamin Nelson, Tails of the Unexpected. Speech from The Credit Crisis Five Years On:
Unpacking the Crisis Conference at the University of Edinburgh (Bank of England, June 8 2012.)
70.
Andrew G. Haldane and Vasileios Madouros, The Dog and the Frisbee. Speech from the Federal Reserve Bank of
Kansas Citys 36th Economic Policy Symposium (Bank of England, August 31 2012).
71.
Gerald Rosenfield, Jay Lorsch, Rakesh Khurana (eds.), Challenges to Business in the Twenty-First Century, (Cambridge:
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2011), Chapter 2, Challenges of Financial Innovation, by Myron S. Scholes.
72.
Ananth Madhavan, Exchange-Traded Funds, Market Structure and the Flash Crash, October 2011.
* All readings in this section are freely available on the GARP Digital Library.
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2013 FRM Committee Members

Dr. Ren Stulz (Chairman)...................................................Ohio State University
Richard Apostolik ...................................................................Global Association of Risk Professionals
Richard Brandt.........................................................................Citibank
Dr. Christopher Donohue.....................................................Global Association of Risk Professionals
Herv Geny................................................................................Thomson Reuters
Kai Leifert, FRM.......................................................................Northern Trust Global Investments
Steve Lerit, CFA.......................................................................UBS
William May...............................................................................Global Association of Risk Professionals
Michelle McCarthy ..................................................................Nuveen Investments
Ezra Uzi Moualem, FRM .......................................................The Financial Institute of Israel & ZRisk
Dr. Victor Ng .............................................................................Goldman Sachs & Co
Dr. Elliot Noma.........................................................................Garrett Asset Management
Liu Ruixia....................................................................................Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Robert Scanlon ........................................................................Standard Chartered Bank
Dr. Til Schuermann .................................................................Oliver Wyman
Serge Sverdlov.........................................................................Redmond Analytics
Alan Weindorf ..........................................................................Visa
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2013 Financial Risk Manager (FRM) Examination Study Guide

Topic Outline, Readings, Test Weightings

It is rare that a risk manager will be faced

The Study Guide sets forth primary topics

with an issue that can immediately be slot-

and subtopics covered in the FRM Exam.

ted into one category. In the real world, a

The topics were selected by the FRM

risk manager must be able to identify any

Committee as ones that risk managers

number of risk-related issues and be able

who work in practice today have to master.

to deal with them effectively. As such, the

The topics and their respective weightings

FRM Examination is also a comprehensive

are reviewed yearly to ensure the FRM

examination, testing a risk professional on

Exam is kept timely and relevant.

a number of risk management concepts

The Study Guide also contains a full listing

as preparation for the FRM Examination.

Questions for the FRM Examination are

Key Concepts appear as bullet points at

related to and supported by the readings

the beginning of each section and are

listed under each topic outline. These read-

intended to help candidates identify the

ings were selected by the FRM Committee

major themes and knowl-

to assist candidates in their review of the

The FRM Examination is

edge areas associated with

subjects covered by the exam. It is strongly

suggested that candidates review these

tion, testing a risk professional on a number of risk

FRM Examination Approach

exam. All of the readings listed in the FRM

management concepts and

The FRM Exam is a practice-

Study Guide are available through GARP.

oriented examination. Its

Further information can be found at the

questions are derived from

a combination of theory, as set forth in the

FRM Exam Prep Providers

Candidates are expected to understand risk

Some candidates may want to more for-

management concepts and approaches

mally review the materials with FRM Exam

and how they would apply to a risk man-

Prep Providers (EPPs). A list of EPPs that

agers day-to-day activities.

have registered with GARP can be found at

2013 Global Association of Risk Professionals. All rights reserved.

2013 Financial Risk Manager (FRM) Examination Study Guide

FRM PART ITOPICS AND READINGS

The role of risk management

Basic risk types, measurement and management tools

Creating value with risk management

Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT)

Risk-adjusted performance measurement

Enterprise Risk Management