Derivatives

by Fred D. Arditti

Book Overview

This work discusses derivatives, covering all four major categories. It contains information on institutional procedure and market practice, explaining complicated subjects using numerical examples. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875845606
• ISBN13: 9780875845609
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Very good Book for a practitioner

I found the book very useful in practice. It gave you a lot of details.

He knows how to design derivatives and make them work

I am completely satisfied with this book. He knows how to design derivatives and make them work. This book does a remarkable job of explaining the theory and practice of derivative securities.

EXCELLENT AND IN PATCHES OUTSTANDING

This book is an excellent resource for beginning and intermediate level fund managers who want to understand the derivatives to be able to use them in risk hedging and income maximization.The book is excellently organized in four sections and each section is self sufficient. Each of the sections begin with basics, illustrates the concepts with example, introduces the mathematics of pricing and methodology of hedginag of risksEvery section has also a nice subsection on terminology and definitions.The book is an excellent attempt to explain a highly technical and complex subject.The section on Interest Rate swaps is outstanding. A must read for all corporate money managers and a must addition to all financial libraries.