Value-at-Risk has emerged as the standard tool for measuring and reporting financial market risk. More than 80 commercial vendors offer enterprise or trading risk management systems that provide VAR-like measures. Risk managers are therefore often left with the daunting task of having to choose from this plethora of risk measures. "Elements of Financial Risk Management" focuses on implementation, especially techniques which facilitate "bridging the gap" between standard textbooks on risk and real-life risk management systems. This title should appeal to practitioners in the financial services and investment industries, as well as graduate students and advanced undergraduates who want exposure to these techniques. INDICE Risk management and financial returns volatility forecasting correlation modelling modelling the conditional distribution simulation-based methods option pricing modelling option risk backtesting and stress testing