Download or read book An Introduction to Derivatives Risk Management written by Don M. Chance and published by South Western Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A market leader, this book has detailed but flexible coverage of options, futures, forwards, swaps, and risk management ? as well as a solid introduction to pricing, trading, and strategy allowing readers to gain valuable information on a wide range of topics and apply to situations they may face.
Download or read book Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management written by Don M. Chance and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One text equips you with a rock-solid understanding of how derivatives are used to manage the risks of financial decisions. Extremely student friendly, market-leading INTRODUCTION TO DERIVATIVES AND RISK MANAGEMENT, 10e is packed with real-world examples while keeping technical mathematics to a minimum. With a blend of institutional material, theory, and practical applications, the text delivers detailed coverage of options, futures, forwards, swaps, and risk management as well as a balanced introduction to pricing, trading, and strategy. The financial information throughout reflects the most recent changes in the derivatives market--one of the most volatile sectors in the financial world. New "Taking Risk in Life" features illustrate the application of risk management in real-world financial decisions.
Download or read book An Introduction to Derivative Securities Financial Markets and Risk Management written by Jarrow, Robert A and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Robert Jarrow, one of the true titans of finance, and his former student Arkadev Chatterjea, Introduction to Derivatives is the first text developed from the ground up for students taking the introductory derivatives course. The math is presented at the right level and is always motivated by what 's happening in the financial markets. And, as one of the developers of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton Model, Robert Jarrow presents a novel, accessible way to understand this important topic.
Download or read book Introduction to Derivative Securities Financial Markets and Risk Management an Second Edition written by Robert A. Jarrow and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financial Engineering written by Keith Cuthbertson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-06-08 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a thorough treatment of futures, 'plain vanilla' options and swaps as well as the use of exotic derivatives and interest rate options for speculation and hedging. Pricing of options using numerical methods such as lattices (BOPM), Mone Carlo simulation and finite difference methods, in additon to solutions using continuous time mathematics, are also covered. Real options theory and its use in investment appraisal and in valuing internet and biotechnology companies provide cutting edge practical applications. Practical risk management issues are examined in depth. Alternative models for calculating Value at Risk (market risk) and credit risk provide the throretical basis for a practical and timely overview of these areas of regulatory policy. This book is designed for courses in derivatives and risk management taken by specialist MBA, MSc Finance students or final year undergraduates, either as a stand-alone text or as a follow-on to Investments: Spot and Derivatives Markets by the same authors. The authors adopt a real-world emphasis throughout, and include features such as: * topic boxes, worked examples and learning objectives * Financial Times and Wall Street Journal newspaper extracts and analysis of real world cases * supporting web site including Lecturer's Resource Pack and Student Centre with interactive Excel and GAUSS software
Download or read book Shipping Derivatives and Risk Management written by A. Alizadeh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive book on shipping derivatives and risk management which covers the theoretical and practical aspects of financial risk in shipping. The book provides a thorough overview of the practice of risk management in shipping with the use of theoretical examples and real-life applications.
Download or read book Financial Derivatives written by Rob Quail and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Financial Derivatives" - Jetzt neu in der 3. komplett überarbeiteten Auflage! Dieses umfassende Nachschlagewerk bietet eine gründliche Einführung in das Thema Finanzderivate und ihre Bedeutung für das Risikomanagement im Unternehmensumfeld. Es vermittelt fundierte Kenntnisse zum Thema Finanzderivate, und zwar mit einem verständlich gehaltenen Minimum an Finanzmathematik, was Preisbildung und Bewertung angeht. Mit einer breitgefächerten Übersicht über die verschiedenen Arten von Finanzderivaten. Mit neuem Material zu Kreditderivaten und zur Kreditrisikobewertung bei Derivaten. Mit neuen und ausführlicheren Informationen zu den Themen Finanztechnik und strukturierte Finanzprodukte. "Financial Derivatives" - Ein unverzichtbarer Ratgeber für alle Finanzexperten im Bereich Risikomanagement.
Download or read book Risk Management Speculation and Derivative Securities written by Geoffrey Poitras and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an integrated explanation of speculative trading and risk management from the practitioner's point of view, "Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities" is a standard text on financial risk management that departs from the perspective of an agent whose main concerns are pricing and hedging derivatives.
Download or read book Derivatives and Risk Management written by Janakiramanan and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derivatives and Risk Management provides readers with a thorough knowledge of the functions of derivatives and the many risks associated with their use. It covers particular derivative instruments available in India and the four types of derivatives. It is useful for postgraduate students of commerce, finance and management, fund managers, risk-management specialists, treasury managers, students taking the CFA examinations and anyone who wants to understand the derivatives market in India.
Download or read book Derivatives written by Wendy L. Pirie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to derivatives, from the experts at the CFA Derivatives is the definitive guide to derivatives, derivative markets, and the use of options in risk management. Written by the experts at the CFA Institute, this book provides authoritative reference for students and investment professionals seeking a deeper understanding for more comprehensive portfolio management. General discussion of the types of derivatives and their characteristics gives way to detailed examination of each market and its contracts, including forwards, futures, options, and swaps, followed by a look at credit derivatives markets and their instruments. Included lecture slides help bring this book directly into the classroom, while the companion workbook (sold separately) provides problems and solutions that align with the text and allows students to test their understanding while facilitating deeper internalization of the material. Derivatives have become essential to effective financial risk management, and create synthetic exposure to asset classes. This book builds a conceptual framework for understanding derivative fundamentals, with systematic coverage and detailed explanations. Understand the different types of derivatives and their characteristics Delve into the various markets and their associated contracts Examine the use of derivatives in portfolio management Learn why derivatives are increasingly fundamental to risk management The CFA Institute is the world's premier association for investment professionals, and the governing body for the CFA, CIPM, and Investment Foundations Programs. Those seeking a deeper understanding of the markets, mechanisms, and use of derivatives will value the level of expertise CFA lends to the discussion, providing a clear, comprehensive resource for students and professionals alike. Whether used alone or in conjunction with the companion workbook, Derivatives offers a complete course in derivatives and their markets.
Download or read book Derivatives and Internal Models written by Hans-Peter Deutsch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fifth edition, Derivatives and Internal Models provides a comprehensive and thorough introduction to derivative pricing, risk management and portfolio optimization, covering all relevant topics with enough hands-on, depth of detail to enable readers to develop their own pricing and risk tools. The book provides insight into modern market risk quantification methods such as variance-covariance, historical simulation, Monte Carlo, hedge ratios, etc., including time series analysis and statistical concepts such as GARCH Models or Chi-Square-distributions. It shows how optimal trading decisions can be deduced once risk has been quantified by introducing risk-adjusted performance measures and a complete presentation of modern quantitative portfolio optimization. Furthermore, all the important modern derivatives and their pricing methods are presented; from basic discounted cash flow methods to Black-Scholes, binomial trees, differential equations, finite difference schemes, Monte Carlo methods, Martingales and Numeraires, terms structure models, etc. The fifth edition of this classic finance book has been comprehensively reviewed. New chapters/content cover multicurve bootstrapping, the valuation and hedging of credit default risk that is inherently incorporated in every derivative—both of which are direct and permanent consequences of the financial crises with a large impact on our understanding of modern derivative valuation. The book will be accompanied by downloadable Excel spread sheets, which demonstrate how the theoretical concepts explained in the book can be turned into valuable algorithms and applications and will serve as an excellent starting point for the reader’s own bespoke solutions for valuation and risk management systems.
Download or read book Freight Derivatives and Risk Management in Shipping written by Manolis G. Kavussanos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This advanced practical textbook deals with the issue of risk analysis, measurement and management in the shipping industry. It identifies and analyses the sources of risk in the shipping business and explores in detail the “traditional” and “modern” strategies for risk management at both the investment and operational levels of the business. The special features and characteristics of all available freight derivative products are compared and contrasted between them. Practical applications of derivatives are showcased through realistic practical examples, while a number of concepts across the contents of this book appear for the first time in the literature. The book also serves as “the reference” point for researchers in the area, helping them to enhance their knowledge of risk management and derivatives in the shipping industry, but also to students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Finally, it provides a comprehensive manual for practitioners wishing to engage in the financial risk management of maritime business. This second edition has been fully updated in order to incorporate the numerous developments in the industry since its first edition in 2006. New chapters have been introduced on topics such as Market Risk Measurement, Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives, and Statistical Methods to Quantify Risk. Furthermore, the second edition of this book builds upon the successful first edition which has been extensively (i) taught in a number of Universities around the world and (ii) used by professionals in the industry. Shipowners, professionals in the shipping industry, risk management officers, credit officers, traders, investors, students and researchers will find the book indispensable in order to understand how risk management and hedging tools can make the difference for companies to remain competitive and stay ahead of the rest.
Download or read book Derivatives written by Robert E. Whaley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Whaley has more than twenty-five years of experience in the world of finance, and with this book he shares his hard-won knowledge in the field of derivatives with you. Divided into ten information-packed parts, Derivatives shows you how this financial tool can be used in practice to create risk management, valuation, and investment solutions that are appropriate for a variety of market situations.
Download or read book Financial Risk Management and Derivative Instruments written by Michael Dempsey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial Risk Management and Derivative Instruments offers an introduction to the riskiness of stock markets and the application of derivative instruments in managing exposure to such risk. Structured in two parts, the first part offers an introduction to stock market and bond market risk as encountered by investors seeking investment growth. The second part of the text introduces the financial derivative instruments that provide for either a reduced exposure (hedging) or an increased exposure (speculation) to market risk. The fundamental aspects of the futures and options derivative markets and the tools of the Black-Scholes model are examined. The text sets the topics in their global context, referencing financial shocks such as Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. An accessible writing style is supported by pedagogical features such as key insights boxes, progressive illustrative examples and end-of-chapter tutorials. The book is supplemented by PowerPoint slides designed to assist presentation of the text material as well as providing a coherent summary of the lectures. This textbook provides an ideal text for introductory courses to derivative instruments and financial risk management for either undergraduate, masters or MBA students.
Download or read book Derivatives Simplified written by P. Vijaya Bhaskar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives written by Salih N. Neftci and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2000-05-19 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step explanation of the mathematical models used to price derivatives. For this second edition, Salih Neftci has expanded one chapter, added six new ones, and inserted chapter-concluding exercises. He does not assume that the reader has a thorough mathematical background. His explanations of financial calculus seek to be simple and perceptive.
Download or read book Trading and Pricing Financial Derivatives written by Patrick Boyle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trading and Pricing Financial Derivatives is an introduction to the world of futures, options, and swaps. Investors who are interested in deepening their knowledge of derivatives of all kinds will find this book to be an invaluable resource. The book is also useful in a very applied course on derivative trading. The authors delve into the history of options pricing; simple strategies of options trading; binomial tree valuation; Black-Scholes option valuation; option sensitivities; risk management and interest rate swaps in this immensely informative yet easy to comprehend work. Using their vast working experience in the financial markets at international investment banks and hedge funds since the late 1990s and teaching derivatives and investment courses at the Master's level, Patrick Boyle and Jesse McDougall put forth their knowledge and expertise in clearly explained concepts. This book does not presuppose advanced mathematical knowledge, though it is presented for completeness for those that may benefit from it, and is designed for a general audience, suitable for beginners through to those with intermediate knowledge of the subject.
