Don Chance, Roberts Brooks

Broschiertes Buch

Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management

Beschreibung

This text equips you with a rock-solid understanding of how derivatives are used to manage the risks of financial decisions. Extremely student friendly, market-leading "Introduction To Derivatives and Risk Management," 11th Edition, is packed with real-world examples while keeping technical mathematics to a minimum. With a blend of institutional material, theory and practical applications, the text delivers detailed coverage of options, futures, forwards, swaps and risk management as well as a balanced introduction to pricing, trading and strategy. The financial information throughout reflects the most recent changes in the derivatives market -- one of the most volatile sectors in the financial world. The Taking Risk in Life feature illustrates the application of risk management in real-world financial decisions.

Autor

Don M. Chance, Ph.D., CFA, holds the Norman V. Kinsey Distinguished Chair in Finance at the E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. He previously held the James C. Flores Endowed Chair of MBA Studies and the William H. Wright, Jr. Endowed Chair for Financial Services at LSU and the First Union Professorship in Financial Risk Management at Virginia Tech. Prior to his academic career, he worked for a large southeastern bank. He has been a visiting scholar at universities in Hong Kong, Australia, Korea, Singapore, Scotland and in the U.S. He has authored four other books, "Essays in Derivatives: Risk Transfer Tools and Topics Made Easy" (2nd ed.), "Analysis of Derivatives for the CFA Program," "Financial Risk Management: An End User Perspective" and "Foundations of the Pricing of Financial Derivatives: Theory and Analysis," co-authored with Robert E. Brooks. He has extensive experience conducting professional training programs and serving as an expert witness through his LLC, Omega Risk Advisors. He has also been heavily involved in the derivatives and risk management curriculum in the CFA program, for which he was recognized with the C. Stewart Shepard Award. He is a member of LSU's Supplemental Retirement Plan Oversight Committee. He introduced the proposal to convert LSU's grading system to the Plus-Minus model and chaired the university's promotion and tenure committee for several years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cengage Learning
• 11th edition
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798214057064
• Artikelnr.: 75957391