Stir futures

trading Euribor and Eurodollar futures

Short-term interest rate futures (STIR futures) are one of the largest and most liquid financial markets in the world. The two main exchange-traded contracts, the Eurodollar and Euribor, regularly trade in excess of one trillion notional dollars and euros of US and European interest rates ...

Why some firms thrive while others fail

governance and management lessons from the crisis

Why did some firms weather the financial crisis and others not? This book builds on the author's interviews and access to internal documents from over a dozen major financial companies, investigates their workings, reveals what went wrong and discovers a remedy. A critical difference ...

An introduction to derivatives and risk management

This leading text gives students a solid understanding of financial derivatives and their use in managing the risks of financial decisions. "An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management, 9/e, International Edition" provides a blend of institutional material, theory, and practical applications. The latest financial ...

Asset-liability management for financial institutions

balancing financial stability with strategic objectives

Effective asset-liability management (ALM) of a financial institution requires making informed strategic and operational decisions. Ever more important in the wake of the corporate bailouts and collapses of the financial crisis, ALM encompasses the formulation, implementation, monitoring, and revision of strategies, often on a daily ...

The Ponzi Scheme puzzle

a history and analysis of con artists and victims

In a Ponzi scheme, new investments are used to pay existing investors, to cover the cost of salespersons, and to finance the Ponzi schemer's satisfying lifestyle. Although Charles Ponzi recruited investors in Boston in 1919 and died in 1949, his design and mode of ...

Finance essentials

the practitioners' guide

Collated by Scott Moeller of Cass Business School, this collection brings together the informative articles a budding finance practitioner needs to operate effectively in today's corporate environment. Bringing together core finance knowledge and cutting-edge research topics in an engaging and effective way, this text ...

Dark pools

high-speed traders, A.I. bandits, and the threat to the global financial system

A news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the "bots"- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans who've created them. In the beginning was ...

The future of private equity

beyond the mega buyout

The private equity industry is at a cross-roads. In the easy money years between 2004 and 2008, it was awash with investment, debt was easily obtained and some rash, over-leveraged deals were done by the so-called 'mega buyout' funds. Today, fund managers are dealing with ...

The subprime solution

how today's global financial crisis happened, and what to do about it

The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and economies around the world. In this trenchant book, best-selling economist Robert Shiller reveals the origins of this crisis and ...

Gestión financiera

Libro de texto específico de formación básica empresarial para los alumnos que cursan el nuevo Grado en Turismo. El contenido se desarrolla en las siguientes cuatro partes:marco conceptual, matemática financiera aplicada a la gestión, decisiones de inversión y financiación en la empresa y análisis ...

Trading en el Forex

para unas ganacias máximas

Trading en el Forex para unas ganancias máximas, de Raghee Horner, presenta una amplia descripción de herramientas, métodos y técnicas de charting clásicas, basadas en la acción de los precios y en la psicología, para adentrarse en los entresijos del Forex. Raghee Horner, una de ...

Trading en el Forex

para unas ganacias máximas

Trading en el Forex para unas ganancias máximas, de Raghee Horner, presenta una amplia descripción de herramientas, métodos y técnicas de charting clásicas, basadas en la acción de los precios y en la psicología, para adentrarse en los entresijos del Forex. Raghee Horner, una de ...

Principles of equity valuation

The book provides a rigorous introduction to corporate finance and the valuation of equity. The first half of the book covers much of the received theory in these areas such as the relationship between the risk of an equity security and the return one can ...

Hedge Funds

a practical global handbook to the Law and regulation

Wherever established, the reach, influence and impact of hedge funds on companies and economies are global in nature. Understanding the interaction of the legal and regulatory frameworks that impact on hedge fund operations has become critical for hedge fund sponsors and managers, service providers and ...

Interest rate swaps and other derivatives

The first swap was executed over thirty years ago. Since then, the interest rate swaps and other derivative markets have grown and diversified in phenomenal directions. Derivatives are used today by a myriad of institutional investors for the purposes of risk management, expressing a view ...

Computational methods in finance

As today's financial products have become more complex, quantitative analysts, financial engineers, and others in the financial industry now require robust techniques for numerical analysis. Covering advanced quantitative techniques, Computational Methods in Finance explains how to solve complex functional equations through numerical methods. The ...

Building wealth through REITS

A decade has passed since the launch of Singapore's first REIT, Capita Mall trust in July 2002. Despite that, REITs are not as popular as they deserve to be and continue to be plagued with misperceptions. Singapore REITs are one of the few businesses ...

Fear and greed

investment risks and opportunities in a turbulent world

The early 21st century has been a period of extreme fear and greed in the world's financial markets. Vast sums of wealth have been lost by some, but also made by others. Faith in the investment industry is now at its lowest-ever ebb, and ...

The little book of stock market cycles

how to take advantage of time-proven market patterns

Jeffrey Hirsch discusses how to capture market-beating returns by following specific stock market cycles While predicting the direction of the stock market at any given point is difficult, it's a fact that the market exhibits well-defined and sometimes predictable patterns. While cycles do not ...

Exchange rate regimes inthe Modern Era

The exchange rate is sometimes called the most important price in a highly globalized world. A country's choice of its exchange rate regime, between government-managed fixed rates and market-determined floating rates has significant implications for monetary policy, trade, and macroeconomic outcomes, and is the ...