Fixed-Income Analysis For The Global Financial Market: Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Securities, And Derivatives

This comprehensive new book explains and clarifies the essential building blocks underlying the pricing and risk analysis of fixed-income securities and derivatives - using mathematics lightly, to make things easier, not harder. The emphasis throughout is on how-to-do, on building operational knowledge from the ground up. There are more than 300 examples and exhibits based on current market data. You will find essential information on:
* The global money market
* Foreign exchange transaction and foreign exchange derivatives
* Bonds and zero coupon bonds - including a risk management-driven discussion of duration and convexity
* Interest rate swaps, currency swaps, and exchange-traded futures
* Stochastic models and option pricing
* Stochastic models of the yield curve

GIORGIO S. QUESTA is a senior consultant at Pareto Partners, a quantitative institutional asset management firm with operations in the U.K., the U.S., and Australia. He teaches a number of graduate courses in finance, both in the U.S. and Europe. Previously, he was the CEO of IMI International, an investment banking and asset management firm with operations in New York, London, Frankfurt, and Luxembourg. He has also worked with Procter & Gamble and Andersen Consulting.

Partial table of contents:

SHORT-TERM MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS.

Background and Terminology.

Interest, Discount, Compounded Yield.

Foreign-Exchange Transactions.

LONG-TERM SECURITIES, FUTURES, AND SWAPS.

Zero-Coupon Bonds.

Fixed- Interest Coupon Bonds.

Futures on Bonds and Notes.

OPTIONS.

An Introduction to Options.

Fixed-Income Options, Bonds with Optionlike Features.

Modeling the Yield Curve.

Selected Bibliography.

Index.