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The Financial Times Handbook of Financial Engineering clearly explains the tools of financial engineering, showing you the formulas behind the tools, illustrating how they are applied, priced and hedged.
All applications in this book are illustrated with fully-worked practical examples, and recommended tactics and techniques are tested using recent data.
Philip Delves Broughtonis the author of the international bestseller What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years in the Cauldron of Capitalism. The Wall Street Journal called it “horrifying and very funny” and The Financial Times “entertaining and absorbing.” He has a BA from Oxford, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, served as New York and Paris correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and writes regularly for The Financial Times.
Philip is also a blogger and his posts can be viewed at www.philipdelvesbroughton.com
PART ONE ‑ TOOLS
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Forty years of evolution
1.2 What is financial engineering?
1.3 The nature of risk
1.4 Financial engineering and risk
1.5 Layout of this book
Chapter Two The Cash Markets
2.1 Overview of financial markets
2.2 The foreign exchange market
2.3 The money markets
2.4 The bond markets
2.5 The equities markets
2.6 The commodities markets
2.7 Cash instruments vs. derivatives
2.8 Capital adequacy requirements
Chapter Three Forward Rates
3.1 Forward exchange rates
3.2 Forward interest rates
3.3 Do forward rates predict future spot rates?
3.4 Spot and forward rates in practice
Chapter Four FRAs
4.1 What is an FRA?
4.2 Definitions
4.3 Terminology
4.4 The settlement process
4.5 Hedging with FRAs
4.6 Pricing FRAs
4.7 Behaviour of FRA prices
Chapter Five Financial Futures
5.1 A brief history of futures markets
5.2 What is a financial future?
5.3 Futures trading – from pits to screens
5.4 Buying and selling
5.5 The clearing mechanism
5.6 Futures margins
5.7 Physical delivery versus cash settlement
5.8 Futures and cash markets compared
5.9 The advantages of futures
Chapter Six Short-Term Interest Rate Futures
6.1 Definitions
6.2 STIR contracts pricing
6.3 Basis
6.4 Convergence
6.5 Behaviour of futures prices
6.6 Basic hedging example
6.7 Short-term futures contracts compared
6.8 Comparison of futures and FRAs
6.9 Spread positions
Chapter Seven Bond and Stock Index Futures
7.1 Definition of bond futures contracts
7.2 The cheapest to deliver bond
7.3 Cash and carry pricing for bond futures
7.4 The implied repo rate
7.5 The delivery mechanism
7.6 Basic hedging with bond futures
7.7 Stock indices and stock index futures
7.8 Definition of stock index futures contracts
7.9 Advantages of using stock index futures
7.10 Cash and carry pricing for stock index futures
7.11 Stock index futures prices in practice
7.12 Turning cash into share portfolios and share portfolios into cash
Chapter Eight Swaps
8.1 Definition of interest rate and cross-currency swaps
8.2 Development of the swap market
8.3 Interest rate swaps
8.4 Non-standard interest rate swaps
8.5 Overnight indexed swaps
8.6 Cross-currency swaps
8.7 Basic applications for swaps
8.8 Asset swaps
8.9 CMS and CMT swaps
8.10 Inflation swaps
8.11 Equity swaps
8.12 Commodity swaps
8.13 Volatility and variance swaps
8.14 Exotic swaps
8.15 ISDA documentation
8.16 Changes in market infrastructure after the credit crisis
Chapter Nine Pricing and Valuing Swaps
9.1Principles of swap valuation and pricing
9.2 Discount factors and the discount function
9.3Calculating discount factors from swap and forward rates
9.4 Generating the discount function
9.5 Relationship between zero, swap, and forward rates
9.6 Valuation and pricing of interest rate swaps
9.7 Valuation and pricing of currency swaps
9.8 Cancelling a swap
9.9 Hedging swaps with futures
9.10 The convexity correction
9.11 Credit risk of swaps
9.12 Collateralised vs. Non-collateralised swaps
9.13 LIBOR-OIS discounting
Chapter Ten Options – Basics and Pricing
10.1 Why options are different
10.2 Definitions
10.3 Options terminology
10.4 Value and profit profiles at maturity
10.5 Pricing options
10.6 The behaviour of financial prices
10.7 The Black Scholes model
10.8 The binomial approach
10.9 The Monte Carlo approach
10.10 Finite difference methods.
Chapter TenA Options – Volatility and the Greeks
10A.1 Volatility
10A.2 Volatility smiles and skews
10A.3 The VIX
10A.4 Value profiles prior to maturity
10A.5 How options behave
10A.6 Delta hedging
Chapter Eleven Options - From Building Blocks to Portfolios
11.1 The building block approach
11.2 Option spreads ‑ horizontal, vertical, and diagonal
11.3 Volatility structures
11.4 Arbitrage structures
Chapter Twelve Interest Rate and Exotic Options
12.1 Why interest rate options are different
12.2 Caps, floors, and collars
12.3 Swaptions
12.4 Cancellable and extendible swaps
12.5Pricing interest rate options
12.6 Compound options
12.7 Exotic options
12.8 Path-dependent options
12.9 Digital options
12.10 Multivariate options
12.11 Other exotic options
12.12 Pricing exotic options
12.13 Price comparisons between exotic options
12.14 Embedded options
Chapter Thirteen Introducing Credit Derivatives
13.1 Development of the credit derivatives market
13.2 Motivations for using credit derivatives
13.3 Introducing Credit Default Swaps (CDS)
13.4 Market conventions
13.5 Credit events and Determination Committees
13.6 Capital structure, recovery rates, reference and deliverable obligations
13.7 Settlement methods and auctions
13.8 Other aspects of CDS
Chapter ThirteenA CDS Pricing and Credit Indices
13A.1 A Simple CDS Pricing Model
13A.2 Obtaining Default Probabilities
13A.3 Developing a Multi-period Framework
13A.4 The ISDA CDS Standard Model
13A.5 Bootstrapping Default Probabilities
13A.6 8Calculating Up-front Payments
13A.7 Mark-to-market and CDS Valuation
13A.8 PV01 and SDV01
13A.9 How Credit Indices Developed
13A.10 The CDX and iTraxx Credit Indices
13A.11 Market Quotations and Statistics
13A.12 Other Credit Indices
13A.13 Index Tranches
PART TWO ‑ TECHNIQUES
Chapter Fourteen Applications for Financial Engineering
14.1 Applications of financial engineering
14.2 Sources of financial risk
14.3 Accounting and economic risk
14.4 Defining hedging objectives
14.5 Measuring hedge efficiency
14.6 The finance division as a profit centre
Chapter Fifteen Managing Currency Risk
15.1 Forwards and futures solutions
15.2 Options are chameleons
15.3 How FX options are different
15.4 The scenario
15.5 Comparing hedging strategies
15.6 Basic option hedges
15.7 Selling options within a hedging programme
15.8 Collars, range-forwards, forward-bands, cylinders
15.9Spread hedges
15.10 Participating forwards
15.11 Ratio forwards
15.12 Break-forwards, FOXs, forward-reversing options
15.13 Flexi-forwards
15.14 Using exotic options
15.15 Selling options outside a hedging programme
15.16 Dynamic hedging
15.17 Which strategy is best?
Chapter Sixteen Managing Interest-Rate Risk using FRAs, Futures and Swaps
16.1 Using FRAs
16.2 Using short-term interest rate futures
16.3 Calculating the hedge ratio
16.4 Stack vs. strip hedges
16.5 Different kinds of basis risk
16.6 Managing the convergence basis
16.7 Interpolated hedges
16.8 Combining the techniques
16.9 FRAs vs. futures
16.10 Using swaps
16.11 Hedging bond and swap portfolios
16.12 Hedging bond portfolios with bond futures
Chapter Seventeen Managing Interest-Rate Risk – Using Options and Option-Based Instruments
17.1 Interest rate guarantees
17.2 Using caps, floors, and collars
17.3 Collars, participating caps, spread-hedges, and other variations
17.4 Using captions and swaptions
17.5 Comparison of interest risk management tools
Chapter Eighteen Managing Equity Risk
18.1 Bull and bear strategies
18.2 Return enhancement
18.3 Value protection strategies
18.4 Vertical, horizontal, and diagonal spreads
18.5 Other option strategies
18.6 Using stock index futures and options
18.7 Portfolio insurance
18.8 Guaranteed equity funds
18.9 Warrants and convertibles
18.10 Exotic equity derivatives
Chapter Nineteen Managing Commodity Risk
19.1 Commodity risk
19.2 Creating commodity derivatives
19.3 Using commodity derivatives
19.4 Hybrid commodity derivatives
Chapter Twenty Managing Credit Risk
20.1 Hedging default risk
20.2 Hedging credit risk
20.3 Generating income
20.4 Trading strategies using CDS
20.5 Implementing directional views
20.6 Monetising relative credit views
20.7 Basis trades
20.8 Curve trades
20.9 Index trades
Chapter Twenty-One StructuredProducts
21.1 Understanding structured products
21.2 How structured products are built
21.3 Features of structured products
21.4 Principal-protected notes
21.5 Buffered and capped notes
21.6 Leveraged structures
21.7 Path-dependent structures
21.8 Digital and range-accrual structures
21.9 Correlation structures
21.10 Redeeming structured products prior to maturity
21.11Finalé
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