Risk Management: Foundations for a Changing Financial World

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

It has been one of the greatest honors of my professional career to review and select the risk management works included in this book. My sincerest appreciation goes out to CFA Institute for entrusting me with this great responsibility. In particular, I would like to thank Heather Packard; Stephen Horan, PhD, CFA; and Rodney Sullivan, CFA, for all of their help along the way, and Tom Robinson, PhD, CFA, and John Rogers, CFA, whose division and organization, respectively, green-lighted the project. In addition, many thanks to Bob Johnson, PhD, CFA, who wrote the Foreword to this book; and Peter Went, PhD, CFA, who co-wrote the Introduction.

Special acknowledgment goes out to the contributors who provided the valuable insights that we are so very proud to share with you and to everyone involved with the Financial Analysts Journal, Conference Proceedings Quarterly, and Research Foundation of CFA Institute for making the publication of this information possible. John Wiley & Sons’ excellent contribution to the actual publication of this book must also be recognized.

I would also like to thank everyone who has contributed knowledge to the field of risk management and to the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA) for their excellent work. Risk management affects all of us in the investment business, and it is through global cooperation that we can all benefit from what has been learned in this ...