Financial Derivatives (Kindle Edition)
Financial Derivatives provides a thorough introduction to financial derivatives and their importance to risk management in the corporate setting. The book has two principal goals: to offer a broad overview of the different types of financial derivatives while focusing on the principals that determine market prices, and to present financial derivatives as a tool for risk management in a corporate setting rather than as instruments of speculation.
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Written for financial managers who need to know how to protect company assets in today’s volatile financial markets as well as for the individual investor seeking a basic understanding of these sophisticated financial instruments, Financial Derivatives explains in nontechnical terms how to use key tools such as swaps, options, and futures to manage many different kinds of risk–including bond defaults and adverse moves in interest rates, foreign exchange rates, and commodity and stock price (more…)