This page provides a link to the material for
Risk Management (BUS 492).


Click here for BUS 492 Course Outline
Click here for the BUS 492 course syllabus
Click here for list of project topics
Click here for Term Paper Evaluation Worksheet
Click here for Tips on Writing the Paper

Click here for the 10-3 492 final
Click here for the 10-3 492 midterm
Click here for the sample 492 mid-term
Click here for the 10-1 419 midterm
Click here for the 10-1 419 final

Click here for Math Pretest
Click here for the Notes on the Binomial (Corrected)
Click here for Cumulative Normal Table
Soy Crush Price Explanation
The Standard Deviation is Sub-Additive
VaR is not Sub-additive Example
FINRA RM Notice for broker-dealers (Nov. 2010)

Zip file with British Museum cuneiform pictures



For those that would like to have .ppt files of the 492_lectures:
Click here for Lecture 1
Click here for Lecture 2
Click here for Lecture 3
Click here for Lecture 4
Click here for Lecture 5
Click here for Lecture 6
LECTURE 7 is MIDTERM WEEk
Click here for Lecture 8
Lectures 9 through 11 are BUS 419 student group presentations.
Click here for Lecture 12
Click here for the last Lecture

For those having font problems here are some links that enable you to download various fonts that are missing on your machine. If you do not have WordPerfect on your machine, download the following .zip file and copy the font files to the \windows\fonts subdirectory: fonts.zip If you are still having trouble with equations try: Wordperfect trial download
Another link that has a number of other fonts available is: Font list at Colorado State

Click here for the group presentation slide shows

Here are some interesting magazine articles to ponder:
Value at Risk A summary on the Value at Risk methodology from Financial Analysts Journal, Mar/Apr 2000.
Tails, Turtles and Stereos My article from the Journal of Derivatives, Winter 1997. Please note there are a number of typos in this article which need to be correct. The corrections can be found here
Warren Buffett on the Stock Market from Fortune Dec 10/01.
Can You Derive Market Volatility Forecasts from the Observed Yield Curve Convexity Bias? from the Journal of Fixed Income (1997).
Chapter on the early history of derivative security trading from 'Early History of Financial Economics' Discusses the 16th to 18th century development of derivative security trading.




Those wanting .pdf files of the chapters used in BUS 492 can download here. These files are not a complete copy of the book. Here is the copy of chapter 9 that is not included in the above .zip file. Click here for chapter 9 and for Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 Click here


Click here for Lingling Liao's project on Risk Management in the Gold Mining Industry


Link to a page with selected readings from Security Analysis

In the event that any link on this page does not activate, a server is probably down or whatever, please try again later and if you are still unsuccessful, notify me by email at poitras@sfu.ca