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Financial Risk Management with R

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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.
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Length 5 weeks
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Duke University via Coursera
Instructor David Hsieh
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Language English
Subjects Data Science Business Mathematics
Tags Data Science Business Finance Probability And Statistics

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avec l'importation des données

Il y a un problème avec l'importation des données pour faire le quiz sur les raisons pour lesquelles je ne peux pas le réussir.

got slightly different results

Therefore, when using the set.seed() command to ensure our random samples matched those of the professor, I got slightly different results.

include six decimal places

This shouldn't have been a problem, but the professor arbitrarily decided that the answers to the quizzes and exercises should include six decimal places.

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almost three months later

When taking this course almost three months later, I found that this issue has not been addressed yet.

ensure our random samples

les raisons pour lesquelles

if he asked

If he asked for three or four decimals, this would not have been a problem and any version of R would be sufficient.

analyzing volatility clustering

The course goes into some really complicated concepts, and by the end you will be analyzing Volatility Clustering with the GARCH model.

course.let me preface

However, there are some serious technical problems with the course.Let me preface this by saying I am very comfortable programming in R; I have been using it for econometric analysis for 5 years.

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Careers

An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile.

Market Risk Anaylst $91k

Head of Market Risk $95k

Senior Risk Analyst, Market Risk $101k

Market Risk Technology $103k

Associate Market Risk Reporter $104k

Risk Analyst - Market Risk Management $106k

Associate Market Risk $108k

Market Risk / Product Control $108k

Senior Market Risk $111k

Junior Market Risk Analyst $112k

Market Risk Control Officer $133k

Market Risk Reporting $140k

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Rating 3.0 based on 4 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Duke University via Coursera
Instructor David Hsieh
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Data Science Business Mathematics
Tags Data Science Business Finance Probability And Statistics

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