Derivatives: A Comprehensive Resource for Options, Futures, Interest Rate Swaps, and Mortgage Securities (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis Series) - Hardcover

Arditti, Fred D.

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9780875845609: Derivatives: A Comprehensive Resource for Options, Futures, Interest Rate Swaps, and Mortgage Securities (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0875845606 ISBN 13: 9780875845609
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 1996

Synopsis

Clears up misconceptions about the derivatives market, describes its four major classes of instruments, and discusses the investment potential of derivatives

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Since 1984, Harvard Business School Press has been dedicated to publishing the most contemporary management thinking, written by authors and practitioners who are leading the way. Whether readers are seeking big-picture strategic thinking or tactical problem solving, advice in managing global corporations or for developing personal careers, HBS Press helps fuel the fire of innovative thought. HBS Press has earned a reputation as the springboard of thought for both established and emerging business leaders.

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A derivative is an investment instrument such as a futures contract or an option and is so called because it is derived from a cash market. During the last decade, the growth of the derivatives market has been tremendous. Professional money managers use derivatives to help manage risk, but derivatives themselves are highly risky. Speculation in them brought about the collapse of Barings Bank and the bankruptcy of Orange County, California. Arditti is a professor of finance at Chicago's DePaul University and former chief economist at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He provides detailed explanations of how each of the four major classes (identified in his title) of derivatives works and when and how each should be used. Arditti targets investment bankers, corporate treasurers, fund managers, financial advisers, apprentice traders, and business students; and he assumes the reader has a knowledge of investment valuation and pricing models and "the rules and conventions that define the markets." David Rouse

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Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0875845606
ISBN 13 
9780875845609
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
394
Rating
  • 3.60 out of 5 stars
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