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Risk Management and Insurance

Postgraduate | ACU-BAFN609 | 2020

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Understand the risks big businesses face, and how you can avoid them. Cover risk measurement and evaluation, exposures, mitigation, insurance and more. You’ll finish this course with skills sought after by banking and finance industries.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
Duration
13 weeks

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Risk Management and Insurance

About this subject

  • On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

    • understand the features of the risk management process, risk governance, risk reduction, and an enterprise risk management
    • apply Value at Risk (VaR) in measuring overall and individual position market risk
    • apply forward and future contracts in managing risks
    • apply swaps and options contracts in managing risk
    • evaluate the structure of the insurance market and insurance-based solutions to risk management problems
    • generate risk mitigating plans for a firm collaboratively

Entry requirements

To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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