Research and Markets: Financial Derivatives: Pricing and Risk Management” Guide Offers A Broad Overview Of The Different Types Of Derivatives

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f06f0c/financial_derivati) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Financial Derivatives: Pricing and Risk Management" to their offering.

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.

Key Topics Covered:

• Chapter One: Derivative Instruments: Forwards, Futures, Options, Swaps, and Structured Products.
• Chapter Two: The Derivatives Marketplace: Exchanges and the Over-the-Counter Market.
• Chapter Three: Speculation and Hedging.
• Chapter Four: The Social Functions of Financial Derivatives.
• Chapter Five: Agricultural and Metallurgical Derivatives: Pricing.
• Chapter Six: Agricultural and Metallurgical Derivatives: Speculation and Hedging.
• Chapter Seven: Equity Derivatives.
• Chapter Eight: Foreign Exchange Derivatives.
• Chapter Nine: Energy Derivatives.
• Chapter Ten: Interest Rate Derivatives.
• Chapter Eleven: Exotic Options.
• Chapter Twelve: Event Derivatives.
• Chapter Thirteen: Credit Default Swaps.
• Chapter Fourteen: Structured Credit Products.
• Chapter Fifteen: Executive Stock Options.
• Chapter Sixteen: Emerging Derivative Instruments.
• Chapter Seventeen: The Development and Current State of Derivatives Markets.
• Chapter Eighteen: Derivatives Markets Intermediaries: Brokers, Dealers, Pools, and Funds.
• Chapter Twenty: Counterparty Credit Risk.
• Chapter Twenty One: The Regulation of U.S. Commodity Futures and Options.
• Chapter Twenty Three: Derivative Scandals and Disasters.
• Chapter Twenty Four: No-Arbitrage Pricing.
• Chapter Twenty Five: The Pricing of Forward and Futures Contracts.
• Chapter Twenty Six: The Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model.
• Chapter Twenty Seven: The Black-Scholes Legacy: Closed-Form Option Pricing Models.
• Chapter Twenty Eight: The Pricing and Valuation of Swaps.
• Chapter Twenty Nine: Monte Carlo Techniques in Pricing and Using Derivatives.
• Chapter Thirty: Valuing Derivatives Using Finite Difference Models.

Author:

Robert W. Kolb is the Frank W. Considine Chair of Applied Ethics and Professor of Finance at Loyola University Chicago. Before this, he was the assistant dean, Business and Society, and director, Center for Business and Society, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and department chairman at the University of Miami. Kolb has authored over twenty books on finance, derivatives, and futures, as well as numerous articles in leading finance journals.

James A. Overdahl, a specialist in financial derivatives, is the Chief Economist of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. He had previously served as chief economist of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and has nearly two decades of experience in senior positions at various federal financial regulatory agencies. He has taught economics and finance at the University of Texas at Dallas, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University. Overdahl earned his PhD in economics from Iowa State University.

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