Download or read book Effective Product Control written by Peter Nash and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve the Effectiveness of your Product Control Function Effective Product Control is a detailed how-to guide covering everything you need to know about the function. Considered essential reading for: New controllers entering the profession Auditors and regulators reviewing product control Established controllers wanting a refresher on the latest skills and core controls within the industry. Encompassing both a technical skills primer and key insights into core controls used to mitigate major risks emanating from trading desks, you will get expert advice on practical topics such as: The key IFRS and U.S. GAAP accounting standards for a trading desk How to approach the pricing of a financial instrument Market risk and how is it quantified The controls necessary for a trading desk Rogue trading and how it can be detected Valuation adjustments and why they are necessary How the prices used to value a trading portfolio are independently verified The financial accounting entries used to record financial instruments in the balance sheet and profit & loss statement Financial reporting and how the results of a trading desk are presented How a new financial product can be introduced in a controlled manner Complete with a wealth of insightful graphs, illustrations and real-world examples to enliven the covered material, the dependable answers you need are in Effective Product Control.
Download or read book Pricing Financial Instruments written by Domingo Tavella and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2000-04-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerical methods for the solution of financial instrument pricingequations are fast becoming essential for practitioners of modernquantitative finance. Among the most promising of these newcomputational finance techniques is the finite differencemethod-yet, to date, no single resource has presented a quality,comprehensive overview of this revolutionary quantitative approachto risk management. Pricing Financial Instruments, researched and written by DomingoTavella and Curt Randall, two of the chief proponents of the finitedifference method, presents a logical framework for applying themethod of finite difference to the pricing of financialderivatives. Detailing the algorithmic and numerical proceduresthat are the foundation of both modern mathematical finance and thecreation of financial products-while purposely keeping mathematicalcomplexity to a minimum-this long-awaited book demonstrates how thetechniques described can be used to accurately price simple andcomplex derivative structures. From a summary of stochastic pricing processes and arbitragepricing arguments, through the analysis of numerical schemes andthe implications of discretization-and ending with case studiesthat are simple yet detailed enough to demonstrate the capabilitiesof the methodology- Pricing Financial Instruments explores areasthat include: * Pricing equations and the relationship be-tween European andAmerican derivatives * Detailed analyses of different stability analysisapproaches * Continuous and discrete sampling models for path dependentoptions * One-dimensional and multi-dimensional coordinatetransformations * Numerical examples of barrier options, Asian options, forwardswaps, and more With an emphasis on how numerical solutions work and how theapproximations involved affect the accuracy of the solutions,Pricing Financial Instruments takes us through doors opened wide byBlack, Scholes, and Merton-and the arbitrage pricing principlesthey introduced in the early 1970s-to provide a step-by-stepoutline for sensibly interpreting the output of standard numericalschemes. It covers the understanding and application of today'sfinite difference method, and takes the reader to the next level ofpricing financial instruments and managing financial risk. Praise for Pricing Financial Instruments "Pricing Financial Instruments is the first broad and accessibletreatment of finite difference methods for pricing derivativesecurities. The authors have taken great care to clearly explainboth the origins of the pricing problems in a financial setting, aswell as many practical aspects of their numerical methods. The bookcovers a wide variety of applications, such as American options andcredit derivatives. Both financial analysts and academicasset-pricing specialists will want to own a copy."-Darrell Duffie,Professor of Finance Stanford University "In my experience, finite difference methods have proven to be asimple yet powerful tool for numerically solving the evolutionaryPDEs that arise in modern mathematical finance. This book shouldfinally dispel the widely held notion that these methods aresomehow difficult or abstract. I highly recommend it to anyoneinterested in the implementation of these methods in the financialarena."-Peter Carr, Principal Bank of America Securities "A very comprehensive treatment of the application of finitedifference techniques to derivatives finance. Practitioners willfind the many extensive examples very valuable and students willappreciate the rigorous attention paid to the many subtleties offinite difference techniques."-Francis Longstaff, Professor TheAnderson School at UCLA "The finite difference approach is central to the numerical pricingof financial securities. This book gives a clear and succinctintroduction to this important subject. Highly recommended."-MarkBroadie, Associate Professor School of Business, ColumbiaUniversity For updates on new and bestselling Wiley Finance books:wiley.com/wbns
Download or read book Computational Finance written by George Levy and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "working computer code, demonstration applications, and also PDF versions of several research articles that are referred to in the book." -- d.j.
Download or read book Computational Finance written by George Levy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fundamentals of Financial Instruments written by Sunil K. Parameswaran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to financial instruments, logically presented Fundamentals of Financial Instruments deals with the global financial markets and the instruments in which they trade. While most books on finance tend to be heavily mathematical, this book emphasizes the concepts in a logical, sequential fashion, introducing mathematical concepts only at the relevant times. As a result, the reader gains conceptual clarity reinforced by just the right level of technical detail to ensure a comprehensive exposure to the skills needed in the financial world. Establishes a strong foundation for understanding global markets Acts as an invaluable resource for those considering a career in the financial markets Offers an accessible yet in-depth treatise on modern financial instruments Presents a logical navigational path for a typical student of finance who is attempting to come to terms with the intricacies of the subject Covering the fundamentals of various types of assets in a single volume, Fundamentals of Financial Instruments is a compact yet comprehensive one-stop reference for students and professionals in finance and economics.
Download or read book Financial Instrument Pricing Using C written by Daniel J. Duffy and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accounting for Financial Instruments written by Emanuel Camilleri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting for Financial Instruments is about the accounting and regulatory framework associated with the acquisition and disposal of financial instruments; how to determine their value; how to manage the risk connected with them; and ultimately compile a business valuation report. Specifically, the book covers the following topics, amongst others: Accounting for Investments; Bills of exchange; Management of Financial Risks; Financial Analysis (including the Financial Analysis Report); Valuation of a business (including the Business Valuation Report) and Money laundering. Accounting for Financial Instruments fills a gap in the current literature for a comprehensive text that brings together relevant accounting concepts and valid regulatory framework, and related procedures regarding the management of financial instruments (investments), which are applicable in the modern business world. Understanding financial risk management allows the reader to comprehend the importance of analysing a business concern. This is achieved by presenting an analytical framework to illustrate that an entity’s performance is greatly influenced by its external and internal environments. The analysis of the external environment examines factors that impact an entity’s operational activities, strategic choices, and influence its opportunities and risks. The analysis of the internal environment applies accounting ratio analysis to an entity’s financial statements to examine various elements, including liquidity, profitability, asset utilisation, investment, working capital management and capital structure. The objective of the book is to provide a fundamental knowledge base for those who are interested in managing financial instruments (investments) or studying banking and finance or those who wish to make financial services, particularly banking and finance, their chosen career. Accounting for Financial Instruments is highly applicable to both professional accountants and auditors and students alike.
Download or read book Pricing Risk and Performance Measurement in Practice written by Wolfgang Schwerdt and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can managers increase their ability to calculate price and risk data for financial instruments while decreasing their dependence on a myriad of specific instrument variants? Wolfgang Schwerdt and Marcelle von Wendland created a simple and consistent way to handle and process large amounts of complex financial data. By means of a practical framework, their approach analyzes market and credit risk exposure of financial instruments and portfolios and calculates risk adjusted performance measures. Its emphasis on standardization yields significant improvements in speed and accuracy.Schwerdt and von Wendland's focus on practical implementation directly addresses limitations imposed by the complex and costly processing time required for advanced risk management models and pricing hundreds of thousands of securities each day. Their many examples and programming codes demonstrate how to use standards to build financial instruments, how to price them, and how to measure the risk and performance of the portfolios that include them. Feature: The authors have designed and implemented a standard for the description of financial instrumentsBenefit: The reader can rely on accurate and valid information about describing financial instrumentsFeature: The authors have developed an approach for pricing and analyzing any financial instrument using a limited set of atomic instrumentsBenefit: The reader can use these instruments to define and set up even very large numbers of financial instruments.Feature: The book builds a practical framework for analysing the market and credit risk exposure of financial instruments and portfoliosBenefit: Readers can use this framework today in their work and identify and measure market and credit risk using a reliable method.
Download or read book Financial Instrument Pricing Using C written by Daniel J. Duffy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best languages for the development of financial engineering and instrument pricing applications is C++. This book has several features that allow developers to write robust, flexible and extensible software systems. The book is an ANSI/ISO standard, fully object-oriented and interfaces with many third-party applications. It has support for templates and generic programming, massive reusability using templates (?write once?) and support for legacy C applications. In this book, author Daniel J. Duffy brings C++ to the next level by applying it to the design and implementation of classes, libraries and applications for option and derivative pricing models. He employs modern software engineering techniques to produce industrial-strength applications: Using the Standard Template Library (STL) in finance Creating your own template classes and functions Reusable data structures for vectors, matrices and tensors Classes for numerical analysis (numerical linear algebra ?) Solving the Black Scholes equations, exact and approximate solutions Implementing the Finite Difference Method in C++ Integration with the ?Gang of Four? Design Patterns Interfacing with Excel (output and Add-Ins) Financial engineering and XML Cash flow and yield curves Included with the book is a CD containing the source code in the Datasim Financial Toolkit. You can use this to get up to speed with your C++ applications by reusing existing classes and libraries. 'Unique... Let's all give a warm welcome to modern pricing tools.' -- Paul Wilmott, mathematician, author and fund manager
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 298 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.
Download or read book Asset Pricing written by John H. Cochrane and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the prestigious Paul A. Samuelson Award for scholarly writing on lifelong financial security, John Cochrane's Asset Pricing now appears in a revised edition that unifies and brings the science of asset pricing up to date for advanced students and professionals. Cochrane traces the pricing of all assets back to a single idea--price equals expected discounted payoff--that captures the macro-economic risks underlying each security's value. By using a single, stochastic discount factor rather than a separate set of tricks for each asset class, Cochrane builds a unified account of modern asset pricing. He presents applications to stocks, bonds, and options. Each model--consumption based, CAPM, multifactor, term structure, and option pricing--is derived as a different specification of the discounted factor. The discount factor framework also leads to a state-space geometry for mean-variance frontiers and asset pricing models. It puts payoffs in different states of nature on the axes rather than mean and variance of return, leading to a new and conveniently linear geometrical representation of asset pricing ideas. Cochrane approaches empirical work with the Generalized Method of Moments, which studies sample average prices and discounted payoffs to determine whether price does equal expected discounted payoff. He translates between the discount factor, GMM, and state-space language and the beta, mean-variance, and regression language common in empirical work and earlier theory. The book also includes a review of recent empirical work on return predictability, value and other puzzles in the cross section, and equity premium puzzles and their resolution. Written to be a summary for academics and professionals as well as a textbook, this book condenses and advances recent scholarship in financial economics.
Download or read book Financial Instruments written by David M. Weiss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, current survey of investment products and instruments Thorough, accessible, and up to date, Financial Instruments is a guide to all of the financial products currently being traded in the world's markets. Through plain language and in a user-friendly format, David M. Weiss, author of After the Trade Is Made, outlines the many tools available and their unique functions, features, and structures. Weiss breaks financial instruments into four broad groups: equities, debt, derivatives, and mutual funds. Under each heading, he explores the many types of related products, including exotic investments such as: ? American Depositary Receipts ? Asset-Backed Securities ? Structured Debt ? Futures ? Swaps ? Unit Investment Trusts Financial Instruments is an indispensable tool for finance professionals-portfolio managers, brokers, financial planners, and institutional investors. It's also a definitive resource for sophisticated individual investors.
Download or read book Finance written by Piotr Staszkiewicz and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many students want an introduction to finance. Those who are quantitatively-oriented learners can benefit in particular from an introduction that puts more emphasis on mathematics and graphical presentations than on verbal descriptions. By illustrating core finance facts and concepts through equations and graphical material, Finance: A Quantitative Introduction can help people studying business management, marketing, accounting, and other subjects. By using few lengthy verbal explanations and many illustrations, it can teach readers quickly and efficiently. Chapter-concluding questions (with answers) and case studies enhance its utility as a textbook and a reference Mixture of theory and problem-solving contains enough mathematical tools to help readers assess facts and evaluate real data in practical tasks Short, simple presentation is perfect for non-native English speakers
Download or read book Handbook of Commercial Banking written by D. Chorafas and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-10-28 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Commercial Banking is the first book to comprehensively address strategic planning issues in the financial industry. Based on the author's extensive consultancy experience, the book develops a flexible plan to help banking professionals think through the strategic issues of this important financial sector. Beginning with a discussion on the need for a commercial banking strategy and the affects this has on the banks and their competition, the book moves on to outline various issues including; the role of marketing in commercial banking; relationship banking and the branch office network; private and direct banking; pricing financial products and services and credit and market risk. The author has also included a large range of case-studies which are geographically diverse and will provide the reader with a valuable breadth of reference.
Download or read book Risk Finance and Asset Pricing written by Charles S. Tapiero and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to financial engineering that stresses real-world applications Financial engineering expert Charles S. Tapiero has his finger on the pulse of shifts coming to financial engineering and its applications. With an eye toward the future, he has crafted a comprehensive and accessible book for practitioners and students of Financial Engineering that emphasizes an intuitive approach to financial and quantitative foundations in financial and risk engineering. The book covers the theory from a practitioner perspective and applies it to a variety of real-world problems. Examines the cornerstone of the explosive growth in markets worldwide Presents important financial engineering techniques to price, hedge, and manage risks in general Author heads the largest financial engineering program in the world Author Charles Tapiero wrote the seminal work Risk and Financial Management.
Download or read book Quantitative Methods in Derivatives Pricing written by Domingo Tavella and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a cogent description of the main methodologies used in derivatives pricing. Starting with a summary of the elements of Stochastic Calculus, Quantitative Methods in Derivatives Pricing develops the fundamental tools of financial engineering, such as scenario generation, simulation for European instruments, simulation for American instruments, and finite differences in an intuitive and practical manner, with an abundance of practical examples and case studies. Intended primarily as an introductory graduate textbook in computational finance, this book will also serve as a reference for practitioners seeking basic information on alternative pricing methodologies. Domingo Tavella is President of Octanti Associates, a consulting firm in risk management and financial systems design. He is the founder and chief editor of the Journal of Computational Finance and has pioneered the application of advanced numerical techniques in pricing and risk analysis in the financial and insurance industries. Tavella coauthored Pricing Financial Instruments: The Finite Difference Method. He holds a PhD in aeronautical engineering from Stanford University and an MBA in finance from the University of California at Berkeley.
Download or read book Financial Derivatives written by Rob Quail and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential insights on the various aspects of financial derivatives If you want to understand derivatives without getting bogged down by the mathematics surrounding their pricing and valuation, Financial Derivatives is the book for you. Through in-depth insights gleaned from years of financial experience, Robert Kolb and James Overdahl clearly explain what derivatives are and how you can prudently use them within the context of your underlying business activities. Financial Derivatives introduces you to the wide range of markets for financial derivatives. This invaluable guide offers a broad overview of the different types of derivatives-futures, options, swaps, and structured products-while focusing on the principles that determine market prices. This comprehensive resource also provides a thorough introduction to financial derivatives and their importance to risk management in a corporate setting. Filled with helpful tables and charts, Financial Derivatives offers a wealth of knowledge on futures, options, swaps, financial engineering, and structured products. Discusses what derivatives are and how you can prudently implement them within the context of your underlying business activities Provides thorough coverage of financial derivatives and their role in risk management Explores financial derivatives without getting bogged down by the mathematics surrounding their pricing and valuation This informative guide will help you unlock the incredible potential of financial derivatives.
