Investment Risk Management, assignment help

• Assignment
  2: Investment Risk Management
  Due Week 8 and worth 280 points

  Risk management negligence within the financial services industry
  contributed to one of the most significant economic crisis in the recent
  history of the U.S. During this time, Lehman Brothers, a global financial
  services company, filed for bankruptcy protection. This created the
  largest bankruptcy ever within the financial services industry. In order
  to complete this assignment, you will need to search the Internet and
  Strayer databases for information related to Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy,
  the financial risk factors that contributed to the failure, and
  management’s responsibility for the failure.

  Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Based
   on the information you research related to Lehman Brothers, assess the
   factors that contributed to the financial failure of the firm, indicating
   how management failed to manage the risk related to each factor. Make a
   recommendation for how firms should manage these types of risks in the
   future. Provide support for your recommendation. 
2. High-risk
   investments such as mortgage-backed securities, had a significant impact
   on the valuation of investments held with Lehman Brothers, yet many
   financial institutions continue to use these investments today. Assess
   the sufficiency of risk management techniques used by financial
   institutions today, indicating whether or not you believe the risk is
   appropriately managed to avoid a subsequent financial crisis. Provide
   support for your position. 
3. Evaluate
   management’s role within a financial investment firm for establishing
   proper risk management procedures for high-risk investments and the
   appropriate level of accountability for portfolio performance. Determine
   the consequences that should be enacted when Financial Firm Management
   fails to perform their fiduciary obligation to investors, indicating how
   these consequences should be implemented. Provide support for your
   response. 
4. Given
   the recent debt crisis within the EURO zone of Europe, analyze the impact
   to the performance of foreign markets and recommend a strategy for
   financial firms to minimize investment risk in these markets. Provide
   support for your recommendation. 
5. Evaluate
   the role of the Federal government, if any, related to the regulation of
   investments by financial institutions including the scope of the role,
   the authority and enforcement capability within the regulatory agency,
   the benefits, and consequences of regulation. Predict how the regulatory
   environment may change over the next five (5) years. Provide support for
   your prediction. 
6. Use
   at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note:
   Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

 
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be
  typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch
  margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or
  school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
  instructions. 
• Include
  a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name,
  the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and
  the reference page are not included in the required assignment page
  length. 

 The specific course learning outcomes associated with
this assignment are:

• Explain
  commonly practiced risk management techniques. 
• Use
  technology and information resources to research issues in financial risk
  analysis. 
• Write
  clearly and concisely about financial risk analysis using proper writing
  mechanics.