Pt. I. Financial risk processes -- 1. Risk -- asset class, horizon and time -- 2. Competing financial market hypotheses -- 3. Stable scaling distributions in finance -- 4. Persistence of financial risk -- Pt. II. Financial risk measurement -- 5. Frequency analysis of financial risk -- 6. Fourier time-frequency analysis of risk -- 7. Wavelet time-scale analysis of risk -- 8. Multiresolution analysis of local risk -- Pt. III. Term structure dynamics -- 9. Chaos -- nonunique equilibria processes -- 10. Measuring term structure dynamics -- 11. Simulation of financial turbulence -- Pt. IV. Financial risk management -- 12. Managing VaR and extreme values -- App. A. Original scaling in financial economics -- App. B. S&P500 daily closing prices for 1988