The Handbooks in Finance are intended to be a definitive source for comprehensive and
accessible information in the field of finance. Each individual volume in the series presents …

Dedicated to the memory of my two most admired purists whose work stood the test of time
against the critics: Theodore Samuel Williams, baseball player and fisherman and Merton H …

Risk management has received increasing attention in recent years, both from academics
and from practitioners. The number of academic articles indexed in the Journal of Economic …

Designed as a text for postgraduate students of management, commerce, and financial
studies, this compact text clearly explains the subject without the mathematical complexities …

This article provides a brief introduction to risk management. It discusses the rationale for
risk management for corporations, with a strong focus on financial risk management. It …

This book discusses scenarios for risk management and developing global investment
strategies. What are the chances that various future events will occur over time and how …

Since the publication of the second edition of The Credit Risk of Complex Derivatives in
1997, the world of derivatives has gone through a period of dramatic change-in the external …

Financial disasters to hedge funds, bank trading departments and individual speculative
traders and investors seem to always occur because of non-diversification in all possible …

We find that the mean returns and standard deviations of global portfolios with hedged
currencies during the 15-year period 1988-2002 were approximately equal to those of …

There is no way my travels and experiences can begin to match Leonardo's but at least I set
a high goal. In this book, I trace a career from a small town in Massachusetts to the big time …