FIN 3820 Risk Management sample papers, module by module

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FIN-3820 teaches how financial institutions and companies measure the risks that can sink them and decide how much of each to keep. The samples here follow a composite community bank through the measurement modules and the VaR midterm, then turn to Southwest Airlines for the final project.

Send the exact assignment or rubric from your classroom and a custom sample written to it lands in 24 to 48 hours, the first one free. FIN-3820 is TESU’s Risk Management course. It covers the case for risk management, interest rate risk and duration, volatility, correlation and value at risk, market risk VaR, credit risk, the 2007-2009 credit crunch and stress testing, operational, liquidity and model risk, and economic capital and RAROC. Searches like "fin 3820 module 3 assignment example", "FIN3820 sample paper", and "FIN-3820 module samples" land on this page.

What FIN-3820 is really about

Hull’s Risk Management and Financial Institutions is the text, and the course runs eight modules from Introduction to Risk Management, Financial Instruments and Interest Rate Risk and Volatilities, Correlations, and Value at Risk to Market Risk VaR.

The later modules cover Credit Risk, The Credit Crunch and Stress Testing, Operational, Liquidity, and Model Risks, and Economic Capital and RAROC. A midterm project asks for a 12- to 15-page paper describing and evaluating VaR, and the final project for a 10- to 12-page analysis of a real corporation’s risk management.

What FIN-3820’s assessments ask for

Seven discussions count 15 percent, eight written assignments 30 percent, the VaR midterm project 30 percent and the final project 25 percent. Papers are expected to evaluate methods and practices, not only describe them.

Where students lose points in FIN-3820

Marks go on explaining why firms manage risk without the value argument, adding VaRs as if correlation were one, calling VaR the worst possible loss, using spread-implied default rates as forecasts, mild stress scenarios unrelated to real concentrations and company analyses that restate the risk factor section.

The FIN-3820 drawers

Module 1

FIN-3820 Module 1 assignment example

Written assignment: a composite $1.2 billion New Jersey community bank's new chief risk officer explains to its board why the bank manages risk although shareholders can diversify, sorts its exposures into market, credit, liquidity, operational and model risk, and proposes a three-lines-of-defense structure with a risk appetite statement. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 2

FIN-3820 Module 2 assignment example

Written assignment: the composite New Jersey community bank's one-year repricing gap of minus $140 million cuts net interest income by $1.4 million for each one-point rise in rates, its duration gap of 2.76 years implies a $31.5 million loss of economic value from a one-point rise, a quarter of its equity, and a pay-fixed interest rate swap is sized to narrow the gap. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 3

FIN-3820 Module 3 assignment example

Written assignment: the composite community bank's investment portfolio updates a stock fund's daily volatility to 1.315 percent with an EWMA after a 2.5 percent fall, computes a 99 percent one-day VaR of $305,800 and a ten-day VaR of $967,100 on $10 million, finds a $299,800 portfolio VaR with bonds and a $58,400 diversification benefit, and contrasts VaR with expected shortfall. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 4

FIN-3820 Module 4 assignment example

Midterm project: value at risk described and evaluated for the composite New Jersey community bank, comparing historical simulation and model-building methods on its portfolio, explaining backtesting with Kupiec's test, tracing VaR from RiskMetrics to Basel's adoption of expected shortfall, recounting how a VaR model change at JPMorgan's investment office hid risk in 2012 and judging when VaR helps and when it misleads. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 5

FIN-3820 Module 5 assignment example

Written assignment: the composite New Jersey community bank infers a 2.67 percent annual default intensity from a 1.6 percent spread with 40 percent recovery, computes a $450,000 expected loss on a $50 million commercial loan book at a 2 percent PD and 45 percent LGD, explains why unexpected loss and concentration drive capital, outlines Merton's structural model and lists mitigation tools. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 6

FIN-3820 Module 6 assignment example

Written assignment: the 2007-2009 credit crunch traced from subprime lending and securitization through funding runs, then a severe regional scenario with 10 percent unemployment and a 40 percent commercial property decline is run on the composite community bank, cutting its capital ratio from 11.2 to 7.4 percent and prompting limits and a capital plan. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 7

FIN-3820 Module 7 assignment example

Written assignment: Knight Capital's $440 million loss from faulty trading software in 2012 illustrates operational risk, the liquidity coverage and net stable funding ratios are explained and applied to the composite community bank's deposit mix, and JPMorgan's 2012 VaR model change illustrates model risk, with controls recommended for each. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 8

FIN-3820 Module 8 assignment example

Final project: Southwest Airlines' risk management analyzed from its annual reports and research, covering jet fuel price risk and its long-running hedging program, liquidity built around large cash balances, debt and interest rate exposure, operational risk exposed by the 2022 holiday meltdown and labor and regulatory risk, with fuel at about 21 percent of 2024 revenue and an assessment of what its practices achieved. Full sample paper, read it free.

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How these samples are written

FIN-3820 samples here keep one composite bank across the measurement modules so its gaps, VaR, credit losses and stress results connect, and the cases cited come from regulators’ and companies’ own reports.

FIN-3820 questions, answered

What textbook does FIN-3820 use?

Hull’s Risk Management and Financial Institutions, sixth edition, from Wiley.

What is the FIN-3820 midterm project?

A 12- to 15-page paper describing and evaluating value at risk, worth 30 percent of the grade.

What is the FIN-3820 final project?

A 10- to 12-page paper analyzing the risk management practices of a real-world corporation, worth 25 percent.