·Explain considerations and procedures in determining a firm’s risk appetite and its business objectives.
第二个是多因素模型这章的:
·Describe and apply the Fama-French three factor model in estimating asset returns.
最后一个改动较大的是Corporate Governance and Risk Management这一章节,其中一个知识点是“Implementing Robust Risk Appetite Frameworks to Strengthen Financial Institutions, institute of international Finance,June 2011 (executive Summary—Section 4, pp. 10–40).”这本书中的内容,改变之后,则成为“René Stulz, “Risk-Taking and Risk Management by Banks,” Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 27, No. 1 (2015):8-18.”。即原来考察RAF,新的考纲中则侧重于VaR和银行中的风险管理。
2.QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
这部分考点改动较少,主要就两个。
第一个增加的考点是 Basic Statistics里的:
·Interpret and calculate the expected value of a discrete random variable.
另外是一个比较大的变化,将simulation model这部分的内容由去年的“Dessislava Pachamanova and Frank Fabozzi, Simulation and Optimization in Finance (Hoboken, nJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010). Chapter 4”变为了“Chris Brooks, Introductory Econometrics for Finance, 3rd Edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,2014).chapter 13”。考察的内容还是相似的,主要考察Monte Carlo方法的应用,以及如何解决相应的问题。
3.FINANCIAL MARKETS AND PRODUCTS
这部分删除了金融市场机构的一些内容,并换成了下面这本书中的考点:“Jon Gregory, Central Counterparties: Mandatory Clearing and Bilateral Margin Requirements for OTC Derivatives (West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2014).”这部分主要介绍了金融市场的一些基本知识,例如OTC,CCP等。这部分也重点讲了相关的风险内容,因此考生们需要重视这一块。
4.VALUATION AND RISK MODELS
这部分,首先在Quantifying Volatility in VaR Models中增加了以下两个考点:
·Calculate conditional volatility with and without mean reversion.
·Describe the impact of mean reversion on long horizon conditional volatility estimation
都是模型和计算相关的,这部分的公式需要考生多加记忆。
此外在银行资本结构中,增加了下面这个考点:
·Estimate the variance of default probability assuming a binomial distribution.
最后,变化较大的内容是country risk,首先书籍做了调整,去年是“Daniel Wagner, Managing Country Risk: A Practitioner’s Guide to Effective Cross-Border Risk Analysis (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis Group, 2012).”,今年则变成了“Aswath Damodaran, “Country Risk: Determinants, Measures and Implications - The 2015 Edition” (July 2015).” 主要考察country risk的定义,种类,哪些因素影响country risk,以及sovereign default。