The Risk Management Process

Focusing on educating readers on how to integrate risk management with corporate business strategy – not just on hedging practices, this title is a financial risk management book that combines a discussion of firm-wide risk management with a discussion of derivatives-based hedging strategies and tactics. A component of any corporate business strategy today, risk management has become a mainstream business process at the highest level of the world’s largest financial institutions, corporations, and investment management groups.

Author Biography

CHRISTOPHER L. CULP is Managing Director at CP Risk Management LLC in Chicago and is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago. A former president of Risk Management Consulting Services, Inc. and senior examiner in the Supervision and Regulation Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Dr. Culp is a managing editor of Derivatives Quarterly and Senior Fellow in Financial Regulation with the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Dr. Culp holds a PhD in finance from the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago and a BA in economics from Johns Hopkins University.