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Our YouTube channel has nearly 500 videos, with more being added each week. The videos follow the FRM syllabus, and subjects range from introductions of topics such as "What is Financial Risk" to in-depth discussions of advanced subject matter such as derivatives and securities. Videos include example spreadsheets, allowing you to follow along as David Harper teaches critical concepts and how to use them. Join the more than 55,000 subscribers by clicking HERE and get notified when new videos are added!

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JULY 22, 2019

"Dear David: With all my heart, I want to thank you for everything that you have done during the past 2 years to help me achieve my FRM certification. Rarely do I find the best return on my investment and for sure this was one of them. All the time that you spend to answer forum doubts and kind of explanation you provide clearly shows your effort/passion. This actually inspired me to work harder. Based on this FRM foundation will continue my learning of risk management and will start to learn R language as well."

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JULY 12, 2019

"Bionic Turtle provided an awesome learning experience. The FRM is a self-study program and the support/content makes it easy to plan out your preparation. The curriculum is eye-poppingly vast and the way BT lays out the content helped ease my anxieties.

The forum was by far the biggest help. If I didn’t understand a concept, there was usually someone with the same question at some point in the past. If not, David (or Nicole) usually provided s"

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JULY 8, 2019

"Bionic Turtle suited my way of studying perfectly. David’s video lectures were ideal both for making the required concepts accessible and highlighting the ways in which we should expect these to be tested on the exam. What was most valuable to me was the extensive question bank available for each topic and the online community which discusses them. The level of difficulty in the Bionic Turtle practice questions meant that I could have a great deal of confidence going into the final exams knowing I could already perform well on questions more challenging than what I would be tested on."

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Introduction to the Quantitative Foundation of Risk – Present Value

[caption id="attachment_454805" align="alignright" width="247"] [/caption] A common question asked by FRM candidates (and people who are considering whether to sit for the FRM exam) is, where can I find an introduction to the math? Although the FRM has many qualitative and conceptual topics, it also contains a lot of formulas and numerical illustrations. The CFA,...

Week in Financial Education (June 28, 2021)

Welcome to the latest WIFE. For Part 1, we wrote a new set of insurance company practice questions (PQs). I was recently asked how much insurance is assigned in the FRM. Surprisingly little. You might expect insurance to be prevalent in Operational Risk (P2.T7) but it makes but three appearances in all of Part 2....

A Note about Delta-Gamma Value at Risk (VaR) as Taylor Series

Alberto asked a good question here about using the delta-gamma formula to estimate the VaR of an option position. Lu Shu (lushukai) gave an excellent reply and he itemized the four possible long/short call/put scenarios. This refers to one of the most fundamental quantitative applications in risk finance, which is to say the Taylor Series expansion. It is...

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Introduction to the Quantitative Foundation of Risk – Present Value

[caption id="attachment_454805" align="alignright" width="247"] [/caption] A common question asked by FRM candidates (and people who are considering whether to sit for the FRM exam) is, where can I find an introduction to the math? Although the FRM has many qualitative and conceptual topics, it also contains a lot of formulas and numerical illustrations. The CFA,...

Week in Financial Education (June 28, 2021)

Welcome to the latest WIFE. For Part 1, we wrote a new set of insurance company practice questions (PQs). I was recently asked how much insurance is assigned in the FRM. Surprisingly little. You might expect insurance to be prevalent in Operational Risk (P2.T7) but it makes but three appearances in all of Part 2....

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