Learner Reviews & Feedback for Financial Risk Management with R by Duke University
About the Course
skill for financial market analysts in banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, and other financial services and investment firms. Using the R
programming language with Microsoft Open R and RStudio, you will use the two main tools for calculating the market risk of stock portfolios:
Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). You will need a beginner-level understanding of R programming to complete the assignments of
this course.
Top reviews
RR
Mar 20, 2021
Challenging, but worthwhile -- would recommend approaching over weeks, and not rushing through.Do not need a strong background in Statistics, but would definitely help understand the terminology.
AD
May 16, 2020
The concepts are beautifully explained. This course requires basic understanding of Risk management and R coding. Thank you for such a good learning experience. Best of Luck
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By Souriya K
•Jan 22, 2023
The material was concise and reinforced what I had learned.
By Dominic L
•Apr 3, 2021
Great course, with the right level of detail and topics
By Serge B
•Nov 24, 2020
Excellent course - Exactly what I expected!!
By Héctor A H A
•Aug 21, 2020
Interesting and well explained. Very usefull.
By Vaibhav K
•Jul 26, 2021
Very practical and straight to the point.
By Jairo H G N
•Oct 20, 2020
Pretty good materials and explanations
By Stepan R
•Aug 15, 2020
Clear, concise, minimalist and calming
By Salih T
•Jul 11, 2020
Excellent course, too long quizzes.
By Stardust N
•Jan 6, 2021
Nice to learn new things with R.
By BHAVNA D
•Nov 5, 2020
had great learning experience
By Foued H
•May 22, 2020
Very nice course . Good job
By Xiaohan C
•May 19, 2020
Excellent course!
By Rafael H T G
•Jan 4, 2022
Excelente curso.
By Marco U M L
•Aug 25, 2020
Great starting
By Gabriel A C N
•May 30, 2020
Excelente!!!!
By JOSE L L G
•Jul 24, 2021
Excellent!!
By Martin G
•May 22, 2020
This course is very practical and R is intuitive, so it helps visualizing what VaR and ES. I think it would be useful to remind people that in "real life" these parameters are not run directly on market data returns but rather on portfolio P&L, which adds a (big) computation step and thus require dedicated systems to value all the positions. Besides, I failed to use the function ugarchroll (Rstudio processes forever) which was a bit frustrating. Luckily is wasn't part of the quiz.
By Wenzhao A Z
•Feb 8, 2020
The course is great and useful. But there are a few minor problems that are needed to fix:
1) Some of the data cannot be collected through the package mentioned in the class, although we can still finish the course without finishing those quizzes, it is still a little confusing.
2). The materials covered in the course are a bit simple for financing-majored students, the scope of the course is also a bit narrow, all the course is about the VaR and ES.
By Rene L
•May 15, 2020
My first time working with R, the learning curve was therefore quite steep. Content is good, but I dont think it fits well to the overall “Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization”. This content would be more relevant for investment management.
By Ilhan I A
•Jan 2, 2021
Very clear explanation for terms and the applications. Real-world data applications are also beneficial for practicing and interpreting. In total the course is very useful both for the market and academic. Thanks a lot.
By Sandra J C C
•Mar 5, 2021
Me pareció muy interesante el curso, dado que asocia el lenguaje de programación R a los conceptos y sus aplicaciones. Corregir los errores que se encuentran en los cuestionarios y quices de las semanas.
By Regina G
•Oct 17, 2020
You need a solid statistics knowledge and some knowledge in finance, but don't be scared of using R. Week 4 could be broke down to 2 weeks, but other than that overall a good course!
By François M
•Jul 12, 2020
Really good assessments method, and very interesting topics covered. Material (slides) is however not fully complete in my opinion, hence I rate it with 4 stars "only".
By Claudio R V
•Oct 25, 2020
There are certain things. mostly plots, that are not explained and would be good to get the background on how to do it. But overall really good content.
By ANDREA D B
•Mar 11, 2023
Useful to have a recap on the foundations of Risk Measurement and have practical experience on R with VaR and ES. However, I found the course too easy.