The book targets sophisticated audiences. Concepts are well developed, rigorous presented and meticulously referenced. There is some mathematics, but it appears primarily in later chapters. Audiences include managers interested in policy, traders who must understand complex hedging strategies and readers interested in the fall of Metallgesellschaft. For risk managers, both at financial organizations as well as corporations, the entire book is a gem.

This new project will draw heavily on the author's previous work on derivative securities (published by McGraw-Hill): Options and Financial Futures. Because of increasing interest in the use (and misuse) of derivative securities in portfolio management, new courses have emerged that are called "risk management," but are primarily based on valuation and application of derivatives. Derivatives: Valuation and Risk Management will be reorganized in three parts: 1) Introduction to the securities and their use, 2) pricing of futures, swaps (new) and…

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