The world's leading financial thinkers share their insights into the latest developments in credit derivatives
In The Credit Derivatives Handbook, some of the world's sharpest financial and legal minds come together to discuss how credit derivatives have evolved from tools restricted to the banking industry into flexible and customizable instruments used by investors of all kinds.
You will come away with the knowledge and insight needed to measure and value risk, as well as the ability to put credit derivatives to work. Over fifteen contributors provide in-depth analyses of subjects in their respective areas of expertise, such as:
Key products, applications, and typical trades, hedging and credit structuringPricing of credit default swaps and synthetic CDOsDesign of synthetic CDOsCopula models, with illustrative examplesCredit derivatives in investment portfoliosOpportunities for structuring credit derivatives in accordance with Islamic financeComprehensive in scope but executed in meticulous detail, The Credit Derivatives Handbook provides a complete, global perspective of what the editors consider "one of the most important financial innovations of recent times."