Financial Derivatives provides a thorough introduction to financial derivatives and their importance to risk management in the corporate setting. The book has two principal goals: to offer a broad overview of the different types of financial derivatives while focusing on the principals that determine market prices, and to present financial derivatives as a tool for risk management in a corporate setting rather than as instruments of speculation.

Financial Derivatives

Business & Money

Robert W. Kolb

Economics

Prentice Hall Pr

Financial Derivatives procides a thorough introduction to finacial derivatives designed to supplement a wide range of university finance and economics courses.  The text has two principle goals. First, it offers a broad overview of the different types of financial derivatives futures, options, options on futures, and swaps - while focusing on the principles that determine market prices. Second, the text presents financial derivatives as tools for risk management in a corporate setting, rather than as instruments of speculation. This approach is consistent with tye emergence of financial institutions and corporations as dominant forces in markets for financial derivatives. A new chapter 6, Risk Management and Finacial Engineering reflects the maturation of financial engineering as a financial speciality and illustrates how financial engineers use derivatives to manage risk.

Financial Derivatives (Wiley Finance)

James A. Overdahl

Finance

John Wiley&Sons

Understanding Futures Markets, surveys the broad sweep of futures markets as they exist in the United States.

Understanding Futures Markets (Robert S. Hamada Series in Finance)

Investing

Scott, Foresman-Addison Wesley

Financial Contagion

wiley

Overcome ERM implementation challenges by taking cues from leading global organizations Implementing Enterprise Risk Management is a practical guide to establishing an effective ERM system by applying best practices at a granular level. Case studies of leading organizations including Mars, Statoil, LEGO, British Columbia Lottery Corporation, and Astro illustrate the real-world implementation of ERM on a macro level, while also addressing how ERM informs the response to specific incidents. Readers will learn how top companies are effectively constructing ERM systems to positively drive financial growth and manage operational and outside risk factors. By addressing the challenges of adopting ERM in large organizations with different functioning silos and well-established processes, this guide provides expert insight into fitting the new framework into cultures resistant to change. Enterprise risk management covers accidental losses as well as financial, strategic, operational, and other risks. Recent economic and financial market volatility has fueled a heightened interest in ERM, and regulators and investors have begun to scrutinize companies' risk-management policies and procedures. Implementing Enterprise Risk Management provides clear, demonstrative instruction on establishing a strong, effective system. Readers will learn to: <ul> <li>Put the right people in the right places to build a strong ERM framework</li> <li>Establish an ERM system in the face of cultural, logistical, and historical challenges</li> <li>Create a common language and reporting system for communicating key risk indicators</li> <li>Create a risk-aware culture without discouraging beneficial risk-taking behaviors</li> </ul> ERM is a complex endeavor, requiring expert planning, organization, and leadership, with the goal of steering a company's activities in a direction that minimizes the effects of risk on financial value and performance. Corporate boards are increasingly required to review and report on the adequacy of ERM in the organizations they administer, and Implementing Enterprise Risk Management offers operative guidance for creating a program that will pass muster.

Implementing Enterprise Risk Management: Case Studies and Best Practices

John R.S. Fraser

Betty Simkins

Essential Financial Management  is intended for a first course in finance. It stresses a finance function orientation over the more traditional accounting orientation. Consistent with this approach, the text focuses on two main ideas: * The goal of financial management is to maximize shareholder wealth. * Persistent trade-offs confront financial managers as they attempt to maximize shareholder wealth.

Essential Financial Management

Ricardo J. Rodríguez

Blackwell*publishers

Financial Institutions and Markets: A Reader

Kolb Publishing

The Investments reader

Kolb Pub

The International Finance Reader

Kolb Pub Co

Investments in its fourth edition provides a comprehensive and international analytical survey of the investments field, including portfolio theory and security analysis. It integrates treatment of financial derivatives, with chapters on futures, options, swaps, and financial engineering. This innovative learning package integrates a text, student resource manual, and three software programs. The software features: STUDY! - a fully referenced self-test; INVESTMASTER - an updated, ten-module program with graphing capabilities, and REALDATA - a collection of historical data series covering a wide range of investment topics. In addition to the text, software and student resource manual, Investments has an instructor's package that includes answers and solutions to all end-of-chaper questions and problems, a printed multiple-choice test bank, a computerized version of the test bank, transparency masters of key tables, figures, and lecture outlines. Additions to the text include over 100 CFA examination questions (more than any other text). 
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 <li>REALDATA, containing almost 700 monthly and quarterly financial and economic time series data with exercises directly relevant to the course material. The data are contained in an easy-to-use spreadsheet format. 
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<li>STUDY! includes a bank of multiple choice questions created specifically for Investments 
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<li>INVESTMASTER contains ten modules that cover the gamut of the investments course, including: coupon bond analysis, the dividend valuation model, the Black Scholes option pricing model, portfolio diversification, regression analysis, and statistical analysis. </li>
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Investments

Blackwell Science Inc.

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