Mastering credit derivatives a step-by-step guide to credit derivatives and structured credit

A step-by-step guide to credit derivatives and their application. Mastering Credit Derivatives provides comprehensive coverage of this rapidly growing market. It will give you a clear understanding of what credit derivatives are, as well as explaining their benefits and risks. In this fully revised...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kasapis, Andrew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Harlow, England Financial Times Prentice Hall 2009
Edition:2nd ed
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:A step-by-step guide to credit derivatives and their application. Mastering Credit Derivatives provides comprehensive coverage of this rapidly growing market. It will give you a clear understanding of what credit derivatives are, as well as explaining their benefits and risks. In this fully revised and updated edition, Andrew Kasapis approaches the derivatives market from a practical basis, using examples of real market data and trades. He includes ideas and comments from market practitioners who offer valuable insights as to the likely direction the industry will take. The book includes chapters on: An assessment of the sub-prime crisis and how it has affected derivatives Available derivative products and how they are applied How best to value credit and how to price and risk-manage derivatives An explanation of traunched indices and first-to-default baskets Recently introduced products such as collateral synthetic obligations (CSOs) and collaterised debt obligations (CDOs) Mastering Credit Derivatives is an invaluable guide that will help you to understand credit derivatives and apply them to your market place
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) illustrations
ISBN:9780273729600
0131370464
9780131370463
9780273714859
0273714856