CDS delivery option

better pricing of credit default swaps

CDS Delivery Option provides worked-out examples, over 30 charts, a case study of Delphi, and detailed explanations of how the subprime crisis caused the credit crisis and the near collapse of the GSEs.

International libel and privacy handbook

a global reference for journalists, publishers, webmasters, and lawyers

Ed. Charles J. Glasser. Written in straightforward language accessible to journalists and editors as well as their lawyers, the second edition of Charles Glasser's handbook on media law explains the legal risks global publishers should know prior to publication, what steps publishers should take ...

Making sense of the dollar

Exposing dangeorus myths about trade and foreign exchange

Has the credit crisis forever tainted the U.S. dollar? Will the euro or the yuan replace the U.S. dollar as the world's currency? Marc Chandler argues convincingly that many people are wrongly pessimistic about both the dollar and the U.S. economy ...

Technical analysis tools

creating profitable trading system

In Technical Analysis Tools, professional trader Mark Tinghino cuts through the clutter. First, he demystifies the essential technical approaches such as chart patterns, indicators, Market Profile, and Elliott Wave. He also introduces a new instrument of his own: the cyclical model, which helps identify trend ...

Innovations in investment management

cutting-edge research from the exclusive JOIM conference series

Innovations in Investment Management is a collection of papers presented at the 2006 Journal Of Investment Management Conference Series. Prominent authors and experts in the field provide the reader with a wide framework of cutting-edge research. The book spans a variety of topics including hedge ...

Trading option greeks

how time, volatility, and other pricing factors drive profit

Veteran options trader Dan Passarelli explains a methodology for option trading and valuation in this timely volume on option greeks. With an introduction to option basics as well as chapters on spreads, put-call parity and synthetic options, trading volatility, and advanced option trading, Trading Option ...

Hedge fund risk fundamentals

solving the risk management and transparency challenge

In the constantly evolving hedge fund marketplace, nothing is more central?but in many ways, more amorphous and elusive?than risk. Yet there remains no standard for analyzing and measuring risk within this highly secretive, largely unregulated field, leaving the thousands of hedge funds?and ...

Breakthroughs in technical analysis

new thinking from the world's top minds

Building on the success of New Thinking in Technical Analysis (Bloomberg Press, 2000), this book gathers contributions from an international Who's Who of the field. David Keller, Bloomberg L.P.'s own expert on technical analysis, brings together market masters from the United States ...

Bonds

the unbeaten path to secure investiment growth

Bonds, an expanded and updated edition of The Money-Making Guide to Bonds, provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of bond investing. The authors show how bonds offer a way to limit the risk of investment loss without losing out on substantial gains. But this new ...

Family

the compact among generations

Family Wealth has become a modern classic for exceptional families and their advisers with more than 20,000 sold in hardcover. In this new, major work, James Hughes brings to bear decades of experience working with and studying families to offer panoramic insights into what ...

Hedge Hunters

Hedge fund masters on the rewards, the risk, and the reckoning

The hedge fund industry's top managers have a penchant for high returns and low profiles. The combination makes them a regular focus of the media, eager to know what makes them tick. Now, thanks to Katherine Burton, who's been covering these noteworthy traders ...

The credit default swap basis

The credit default swap basis (the basis) defines the relationship between the cash and synthetic credit markets. Finance professionals need to understand the drivers of the basis in order to better undertake investment and relative value analysis. In this book Moorad Choudhry, a market practioner ...

Investing in reits

real estate investment trusts

Why are REITs a key ingredient for any successful portfolio? The consistency and predictability of REITs' earnings and their high dividend yields, together with the low correlation of REIT stock prices with those of other asset classes, make Real Estate Investment Trusts an attractive opportunity ...

Reverse mergers

taking a company public without an IPO

Written for CEOs, CFOs, and the investment bankers, lawyers, and auditors who advise them, this is the first book to explain how reverse mergers work, from the business and legal points of view.

Fixed-income securities and derivatives handbook

analysis and valuation

The securitization markets handbook

structures and dynamics of mortgage- and asset-backed securities

Securitization is a corporate funding technique that is widely adopted by financial and industrial companies throughout the world, used to finance both working capital and capital budgets. It is also used as a risk management tool and a source of liquidity. Securitization has been adapted ...

Flying on one engine

the Bloomberg Book of Master Market Economists: fourteen views on the world economy

"In fourteen chapters, sixteen chief market economists provide perspective on the global economy including: globalization, currency, employment, commodity prices, developing economies, trade, fiscal and monetary policies, the future of the dollar and theeuro, and the economic and political future of Asia and Europe. Includes 105 ...

Hedge fund of funds investing

an investor's guide

Hedge funds have rightly gained the attention of private and institutional investors in recent years, proving themselves as useful portfolio diversifiers and preservers of wealth while greatly dispelling their reputation as an "unsafe" investment. Yet investors attempting to navigate in the field of hedge funds ...

22 keys to sales success

how to make it big in financial services

Inside the yield

the classic that created the science of bond analysis

First published in 1972, Inside the Yield Book revolutionized the fixed-income industry and forever altered the way investors looked at bonds. More than thirty years later, it remains a standard primer and reference among market professionals. Generations of practitioners, investors, and students have relied on ...