April 21, 2009
Dr. Robert Korajczyk wins Crowell Prize for Stock Return Study
PRMIA is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert Korajczyk of Kellogg School of Management has earned the Dr. Richard A. Crowell Memorial Prize for his research on intraday predictability of stock returns.
Dr. Korajczyk is the Harry G. Guthmann Professor of Finance and the Director of the Zell Center for Risk Research. He is the past editor of many publications and has held visiting faculty appointments at the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D., the University of Vienna, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank and a number of other organizations.
Dr. Korajczyk will be teaching the following two of ten sessions of PRMIA's Complete Course in Risk Management, an intensive one week risk management program offered this summer in partnership with the Kellogg School of Management:
Foundations of Risk Finance Theory:
Risk Theory in Finance: Risk Appetites. Portfolio Theory and Related Analysis. CAPM and its use in Risk Assessment. Capital Structure and Interest Rate Structures.
Markets and Financial Instruments:
Bond Pricing, Options, Futures, Forwards, Swaps, Credit and Other Derivatives. Introduction to Exchange Markets and How Such Instruments Trade Across the Globe.
Click the links below for more information on the Complete Course in Risk Management and Dr. Korajczyk's recognition.
Complete Course in Risk Management
Dr. Richard A. Crowell Memorial Prize
"For far too long, risk managers were viewed as the 'risk police' and were ignored, but now risk management has become more integral to the decision-making process. The most forward-looking companies will integrate risk management into high-level managerial decisions."
- Robert Korajczyk
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April 07, 2009
PRMIA and PECC Announce Risk Management Exams in Chinese
PRMIA and Beijing Prming Education Counseling Corporation (PECC), an affiliated company of the TEHUA Finance & Economic Research Institute (FERI) which is a subsidiary of TEHUA Holdings, today announce their collaboration on the delivery and training in Chinese of PRMIA's risk management qualifications.
On April 2nd, in Beijing, David Millar, PRMIA's Chief Operating Officer, and Dr Huang Yu Hua, Chairman of PECC, signed a collaboration agreement whereby PECC will offer PRMIA's Professional Risk Manager (PRM) and Associate PRM exams and qualifications in Chinese as well as the full training programme for students wishing to pass these exams.
The Associate PRM will be enhanced with China-specific risk governance requirements and case studies and will be offered twice a year at TEHUA testing centres throughout Greater China. Successful candidates will receive both the Chinese certificates and the international certificate.
The Chinese PRM exam will follow the precise format of the existing English-language international exam, and successful candidates will attain the same PRM international designation recognized at all the world's risk management centres as proof of having attained the pinnacle of risk management expertise.
Given the current financial crisis, there is an increasing need for risk management professionalism, proof of expertise and an international standard of practice. By offering exams and training in Chinese, PECC will facilitate the development of risk management practices in China and ensure that Chinese skills are developed to international standards. PECC will also collaborate with PRMIA in the development of both the PRM and the APRM to ensure that Chinese risk management best practices are taken into account.
For more information on the exams in China, please contact Ms. Alloy Lara, Chief Executive Officer of PECC at Alloy.Lara@gmail.com or +86 10 6808 6018 or PRMIA's Education representative in Beijing, Mr. Guo Jun on guojun818@gmail.com on +86 13 1202 78568.
PECC is an affiliated company of the TEHUA Finance & Economic Research Institute (FERI) and was set up for the execution of this exam and training programme and benefits from the facilities FERI and its sister company, the TEHUA Post-Doctoral Research Station, and other Chinese academic institutions. Through this support, PECC benefits from training and testing centres in more than 40 Chinese cities and a finance faculty of 30 which is currently educating 4,500 finance students and professionals a year in China.
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