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Unlike those more traditional style books, the book under review is in the familiar ...for Dummies style of short, brisk sections replete with stories and asides. Brown writes that he does not seek to teach basic financial theory and the basic related mathematics. What he achieves is a  \n“To a portfolio manager, risk is something bad to be minimized, just like a cost ... To a risk manager, risk is something to be set at the correct level.”  \n“If you’re going to hedge, select the best hedge, and explain the likely outcomes clearly to everyone. One of those likely outcomes is that the hedge will turn out to bean overhedge, and will lose more money than the exposure gain. If that outcome is unacceptable, don’thedge in the first place.”  \n“I’d like to tell you how to use shareholder communications to  \nAnd, finally, Brown’s comment on extreme value theory – “When you’re looking at a few of the largest past events and trying to think about plausible extreme future events, there’s just enough data to support enthusiastic mathematical modelling without having enough data to reinin wild ideas” – is one I will gleefully relay to some mathematics colleagues.  \nAt this point, your reviewer should admit to having no personal knowledge ofFRM, and so I cannot assess the main substance of the book beyond emphasizing that Brown reveals it to be a fascinating  \nAny risk manager who's been making risk decisions longer than five years hasan unshakeable faith inVaR ... The discipline of estimating and checkingVaR everyday forces you to learn about an awful lot of stuff, anda surprising amount of that stuff is useful  \nvery comprehensive, and engagingly opinionated, account of both the explicit responsibilities and the implicit world-view of a good financial risk manager (FRM). Here are a few of his many nuggets of wisdom.  \nhelp shareholders understand the forward-looking risks of the company and the actions taken to manage that risk. Unfortunately, I don’t know how – I’ve never done it successfully.”  \nand amazingly multifaceted job. My own academic career at Berkeley has centered on obscure mathematical probability theory research, although as a background activity over the last 15 years I have intermittently  \ntaught a course with the grandiose title “Probability in the Real World.”The course seeks to explore the breadth of contexts where we perceive chance, via 20 lectures anchored (ideally) by real data and on topics not covered in other courses. (To digress to an example, a lecture on“Everyday Perception of Chance”includes data from the search  \nengine Bing on 100,000 queries containing the strings “chance of”or “probability of”; typical examples are “chance of getting pregnant while breastfeeding”; “chance of getting a brain tumor”; “chance of getting shot if you run from an attacker”;“chance of becoming a UsAF airlift pilot”; “probability of winning a traffic ticket court case”.) A broad theme of my course – and therefore what I personally look out for when reading books like Brown’s – is: “when is it useful to try to assess probabilities (and impacts) of future events quantitatively?” That broad theme recurs throughout Brown’s book in rather intricate ways. He emphasizes the point that you have front-line risk takers seeking to exploit uncertainty for profit in some specialized context. To the extent that there are predictable aspects or reliable models in a given context, the FRM can and should use the conclusions without engaging the statistical details – “… stay scrupulously away from kibitzing  \n42 wilmott magazine  \nAAron Brown","cbCaioOR5geuJei5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioOR5geuJei5","pdf",471036,"English","# Musings on Random Musings\n## Risk management perspectives\n## VaR discipline and practical value\n## Extreme value theory and modeling limits","[{\"question\":\"What distinguishes a portfolio manager’s view of risk from a risk manager’s view in the review?\",\"answer\":\"The portfolio manager treats risk as something to be minimized, similar to a cost. The risk manager treats risk as something to be set at the correct level.\"},{\"question\":\"What guidance does the commentary give for hedging decisions?\",\"answer\":\"Select the best hedge and explain likely outcomes clearly. 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