Preface
In the spring semester of 2000, I was asked to teach a new course on Risk Theory III for 15 third- and fourth-year undergraduate students and 2 postgraduate Masters students at the School of Economics of Adelaide University, in Adelaide, South Australia.1 I could have chosen an existing textbook on Risk Theory for actuarialists,2 and that would have saved me countless hours of research and writing, but, instead, I decided to be courageous and develop a new course from scratch and to focus on (1) the measurement, and (2) the analysis of financial market risk, and, perhaps, to discuss some of the implications for financial portfolio management.
Previous professional experiences had widened my perception of financial market risk, ...
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