Archive for the ‘Risk Training’ Category

New Course on Risk Management within the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industry

Over at the Learning Corporate Finance Blog, I posted a new free online course on risk management within the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical. A short six session introduction to a risk management framework for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical industry focused on managing crude oil price volatility for Oil refiners, Polymer and PVC manufacturers and [...]

March 9, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, I can't hack it, Risk, Risk Training  2 Comments

Hans Rosling, Gapminder & Google.

Two days ago I received a cryptic email from a prospective client. It had a link and a simple “Take a look at this please.” I did. I recommend that you do the same. Hans Rosling and Google together have done more for statistics with their tool, their presentation and their data aggregation than all [...]

September 25, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Education, Risk, Risk Training, Training, the economy stupid  No Comments

Unrisk…

I have now been doing this “risk” business for more than a decade. Eleven years ago, right about this time, I was rudely introduced to my first risk application. Fresh from my actuarial exams, I was stumped on an interview question dealing with moments of a distribution. I have read the material, struggled with it, [...]

August 16, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Basel II, I can't hack it, Pakistan, Pillar II, Risk, Risk Training  5 Comments

Good data, models, instincts and statistics.

Risk and transaction systems differ in many ways. But they both suffer from a common ailment – Good data and working models. On a risk platform the integrity of the data set is dependent on the underlying transaction platform and the quality of data feeds. Keeping the incoming stream of information clean and ensuring that [...]

August 15, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Basel II, Pillar II, Risk, Risk Training  One Comment

Feedback is a gift…

Fair usage warning: This post may be classified as a marketing plug Michael Feiner retired as the Chief People Officer at Pepsi and before long ended up teaching a higher performance leadership course at Columbia. The course was based on a book that came out a few years later as Feiner points. Mike started the [...]

March 29, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Basel II, Liquidity Risk, Pillar II, Risk Training  One Comment

Shameless marketing plug

Alchemy first workshop on the joint Alchemy and SP Jain platform will be held on the 15th and 16th of November in Dubai at the custom built SP Jain Campus Executive Education facility in Academic city. This would be our 7th international workshop following previous events in Dubai, Riyadh, Bangkok and Singapore. Since May 2007, I have [...]

September 26, 2008   Posted in: Basel II, Liquidity Risk, Pillar II, Risk, Risk Training  No Comments