Mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructings

This book provides modern restructuring techniques for a global business landscape. Corporate restructurings are an indispensable tool in building a new generation of re-engineered companies with the power and resources to compete on a global playing field. Written from a practical and historical perspective, "Mergers ...

Credit risk management and basel II

an implementation guide

This book fills the gaps in existing literature on this subject by: approaching explanations from a non-mathematical perspective, with the spirit behind the mathematics and equations explained in an accessible manner; taking a holistic approach, with an end-to-end analysis of the credit risk problem; and ...

The Basel Handbook

a guide for financial practitioners

This work includes new chapters and topics, such as the asset classes required under Pillar 1, the new required elements for capital adequacy and the minimum capital requirements for securitization and operational risk, credit risk mitigation, supervisory review and market discipline. Through trial and error ...

Modelos de gestión financiera

La decisión de poner en práctica este libro, parte de la necesidad que tienen los alumnos, a la hora de recopilar las herramientas o modelos de decisión en materia financiera. No están todos los modelos posibles. Pero si están, los que necesitan los alumnos durante ...

Integrating market, credit and operation risk

a complete guide for bankers and risk professionals

Covering the three major sources of risk, this book gives an overview of the exact methodological steps needed to evaluate and manage market, credit and operational risks arising from banking activities. It reveals the strengths and weaknesses of Basel II and explains ways to integrate ...

Implementing systems solutions for financial risk management

The expertise, background, tools and methods needed to successfully implement a risk architecture are different to those required to deploy other financial systems such as accounting packages. This book provides you with both the functional and process background to accomplish this, as well as an ...

Portfolio construction and risk budgeting

The reader is given: key concepts and methods to implement quantitatively-driven portfolio construction; knowledge of satellite investing, estimation error heuristics, scenario optimisation, mean variance investing, Bayesian methods, budgeting active risk, non- normality and multiple manager allocation; practical applications and accessible problem-solving skills; and quantitative analysis ...

Endowment asset management

investment strategies in Oxford and Cambridge

There is a profound linkage between the quality of a university and its financial resources. The universities of Oxford and Cambridge rank among the world's finest educational institutions, and are able to draw on invested assets that are large by any standards. Endowment Asset ...

Managing investment portfolios

a dynamic process. Workbook

This is the Workbook accompanying the authoritative, unified, and comprehensive work on portfolio management, from formulating an investment policy to portfolio construction, trade execution, and monitoring and rebalancing portfolios. This Workbook offers readers question/answer sections for each chapter in the main book.

Private equity exits

divestment process management for leveraged boyouts

Private Equity Exits provides the first comprehensive analysis of private equity divestment processes # so-called 'exits' # for European buyouts. The work is designed as a compendium of current scientific knowledge on portfolio company exits and also provides deeper insights into various aspects of divestment processes, which ...

Value at risk

the new Benchmark for managing financial risk

More than 30,000 copies sold in two previous editions Philippe Jorion is a popular and widely respected speaker at conferences around the world and has published more than 50 articles on risk management and international finance Extensive coverage of the recently finalized Basel II ...

Concise encyclopedia of investing

Have you wanted to begin investing but are wary because of confusing and complicated terminology and concepts? Concise Encyclopedia of Investing provides clear, concise explanations of basic as well as more advanced investment terms to help even the most unsophisticated newcomer. The book presents user-friendly ...

Handbook of corporate finance

empirical corporate finance. Volume 1

Judging by the sheer number of papers reviewed in this Handbook, the empirical analysis of firms financing and investment decisionsempirical corporate financehas become a dominant field in financial economics. The growing interest in everything corporate is fueled by a healthy combination of fundamental theoretical developments ...

The art of M&A

a merger/acquisition/buyout guide

Provides clear, in-depth answers and explanations on everything from the SEC rules and new tax guidelines to documents and key players. From structuring to due diligence to integration, the authors provide up-to- the-minute information on avoiding mishaps and completing the deal.

Structured finance modeling with object-oriented VBA

This is a detailed look at how object oriented VBA should be used to model complex financial structures. This guide helps readers overcome the difficult task of modeling complex financial structures and bridges the gap between professional C++/Java programmers writing production models and front ...

Project financing

asset-based financial engineering

Praise for "Project Financing First Edition": "Owing to his teaching as a finance professor and as an experienced investment banker, John Finnerty brings to his book, "Project Financing", an insightful perspective, blending the theoretical with the practical." - Zoltan Merszei, former chairman, president, and CEO, The ...

The handbook of Portfolio mathematics

formulas for optimal allocation and leverage

"For the serious investor, trader, or money manager, this book takes a rewarding look into modern portfolio theory. Vince introduces a leverage space portfolio model, tweaks it for the drawdown probability, and delivers a superior model. He even provides equations to maximize returns for a ...

Real options

a practitioner's guide

This revised edition of the highly successful book, Real Options, offers corporate decision-makers the ability to assess the profitability of their ventures and decide which avenue of expansion or investment to go down and, crucially, when to take that leap. The reader goes on a ...

Introduces quantitative finance

"Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance, Second Edition" is an accessible introduction to the classical side of quantitative finance specifically for university students. Adapted from the comprehensive, even epic works "Derivatives" and "Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, Second Edition", it includes carefully selected chapters to give ...

Operational risk

a guide to basel II capital requirements. models, and analysis

While operational risk has long been regarded as a mere part of "other" risks outside the realm of credit and market risk it has quickly made its way to the forefront of finance. In fact, with implementation of the Basel II Capital Accord already underway ...