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Book SynopsisFINANCIAL ENGINEERING
Financial engineering is poised for a great shift in the years ahead. Everyone from investors and borrowers to regulators and legislators will need to determine what works, what doesn''t, and where to go from here. Financial Engineering?part of the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance?has been designed to help you do just this. Comprised of contributed chapters by distinguished experts from industry and academia, this reliable resource will help you focus on established activities in the field, developing trends and changes, as well as areas of opportunity.
Divided into five comprehensive parts, Financial Engineering begins with an informative overview of the discipline, chronicling its complete history and profiling potential career paths. From here, Part II quickly moves on to discuss the evolution of financial engineering in major markets?fixed income, foreign exchange, equities, commodities and credit?and offers important commentary o
Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Tanya Beder and Cara M. Marshall
PART I Overview 1
1 The History of Financial Engineering from Inception to Today 3
Tanya Beder
2 Careers in Financial Engineering 29
Spencer Jones
3 A Profile of Programs and Curricula with a Financial Engineering Component 51
John Cornish
PART II Financial Engineering and the Evolution of Major Markets 71
4 The Fixed Income Market 73
Peruvemba Satish
5 The U.S. Mortgage Market 111
Bruce McNevin
6 The Equity Market 131
Gary L. Gastineau and John F. Marshall
7 The Foreign Exchange Market 159
Laurent L. Jacque
8 The Commodity Market 191
Helen Lu and Cara M. Marshall
9 The Credit Market 215
Frank Iacono
PART III Key Applications of Financial Engineering 241
10 Securitized Products 243
Konstantin Braun
11 Structured Products 259
Timothy A. Day
12 Thoughts on Retooling Risk Management 273
Tanya Beder and Spencer Jones
13 Financial Engineering and Macroeconomic Innovation 289
Cara Marshall and John O’Connell
14 Independent Valuation for Financially-Engineered Products 305
Cindy W. Ma and Andrew MacNamara
15 Quantitative Trading in Equities 323
Kun Gao
16 Systematic Trading in Foreign Exchange 337
Chris Attfield and Mel Mayne
PART IV Case Studies in Financial Engineering: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 367
17 Case Studies Introduction 369
Penny Cagan
18 Mortgage Case Studies: Countrywide and Northern Rock 373
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19 Derivatives Case Studies: SocGen, Barings, and Allied Irish/Allfirst 385
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20 Fixed Income Case Study, Swap Market: The Allstate Corporation 405
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21 Lessons from Funds: LTCM, Florida, and Orange County 409
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22 Credit Derivatives Case Studies: AIG and 421
Merrill Lynch
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PART V Special Topics in Financial Engineering 431
23 Performance Fees 433
Mark P. Kritzman
24 Musings About Hedging 445
Ira Kawaller
25 Operational Risk 455
Monique Miller
26 Legal Risk 465
Jordana Krohley
27 Portable Alpha 487
Tanya Beder and Giovanni Beliossi
28 The No-Arbitrage Condition in Financial Engineering: Its Use and Misuse 497
Andrew Aziz
29 Influencing Financial Innovation: The Management of Systemic Risks and the Role of the Public Sector 521
Todd Groome, John Kiff, and Paul Mills
PART VI Appendices 547
A IT Tools for Financial Asset Management and Engineering 549
B About the Companion Website 569
About the Editors 575
Index 577
