Plenty of people think they can beat the market. They pick high growth stocks or value stocks, they watch their portfolios carefully, and they think they'll do well. But if they don't know about risk management, they could experience failure.

Basic concepts of risk management are useful to the individual investor or the small business owner. In this book, we might not go into the advanced details of how to calculate the Black-Scholes formula or run a global banking RM function, but we'll show you how thinking about risk in an educated way can transform your investment and business prospects.

Here are some of the topics that are discussed in this book:

• The Benefits of Risk Management
• The basic concepts and vocabulary of risk management you must know
• Enterprise risk management, including crucial questions for your analysis to be a success and much more
• Risk management models and 'The Greeks'
• Credit risk management, including for example, 3 ways to managing risk on a credit portfolio
• Essential aspects of market risk management
• Operational risk management
• Hedging your bets
• Managing assets and portfolios
• Losses and limits
• Instruments for managing risk
• And Much, Much More