Financial Risk Management

Comprehensively integrating the most important issues in financial risk management, this text clearly presents the latest techniques and strategies in domestic and international investment management. All the chapters represent in-depth reviews of the latest research, providing an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and MBA students who use quantitative techniques for investment and portfolio management.

Preface. 1. Introduction: The Nature of Financial Risk. 2. The Fixed Income Markets: Nature and Dynamics. 3. Interest Risk Management: Hedging Assets and Liabilities. 4. The Foreign Exchange Markets: Nature and Dynamics. 5. Currency Risk Management: Hedging and Speculating with Options and Futures. 6. Portfolio Risk Management: Domestic Dimensions. 7. Portfolio Risk Management: International Dimensions. 8. The Search for Higher Returns: Anomalies. Index.