Principles of Financial Engineering

Principles of Financial Engineering, Second Edition, is a highly acclaimed text on the fast-paced and complex subject of financial engineering. This updated edition describes the "engineering" elements of financial engineering instead of the mathematics underlying it. It shows you how to use financial tools to accomplish a goal rather than describing the tools themselves. It lays emphasis on the engineering aspects of derivatives (how to create them) rather than their pricing (how they act) in relation to other instruments, the financial markets, and financial market practices.

This volume explains ways to create financial tools and how the tools work together to achieve specific goals. Applications are illustrated using real-world examples. It presents three new chapters on financial engineering in topics ranging from commodity markets to financial engineering applications in hedge fund strategies, correlation swaps, structural models of default, capital structure arbitrage, contingent convertibles, and how to incorporate counterparty risk into derivatives pricing. Poised midway between intuition, actual events, and financial mathematics, this book can be used to solve problems in risk management, taxation, regulation, and above all, pricing.

This latest edition of Principles of Financial Engineering is ideal for financial engineers, quantitative analysts in banks and investment houses, and other financial industry professionals. It is also highly recommended to graduate students in financial engineering and financial mathematics programs.

• The Second Edition presents 5 new chapters on structured product engineering, credit markets and instruments, and principle protection techniques, among other topics
• Additions, clarifications, and illustrations throughout the volume show these instruments at work instead of explaining how they should act
• The Solutions Manual enhances the text by presenting additional cases and solutions to exercises

Primary: financial engineers, quantitative analysts in banks, investment houses, and other financial industry professionals; graduate students in financial engineering and financial mathematics programs.

1. Introduction
2. The Hedge Fund Industry
3. Cash Flow Engineering and Forward Contracts
4. Engineering Simple Interest Rate Derivatives
5. Introduction to Swap Engineering
6. Repo Market Strategies in Financial Engineering
7. Dynamic Replication Methods and Synthetics
8. Mechanics of Options
9. Engineering Convexity Positions
10. Options Engineering With Applications
11. Pricing Tools in Financial Engineering
12. Some Applications of the Fundamental Theorem
13. Fixed-Income Engineering
14. Tools for Volatility Engineering, Volatility Swaps, and Volatility Trading
15. Volatility as an Asset Class and the Smile
16. Credit Markets: CDS Engineering
17. Essentials of Structured Product Engineering
18. Credit Indices and their Tranches
19. Default Correlation Pricing and Trading
20. Principle Protection Techniques
21. Caps/Floors and Swaptions with an Application to Mortgages
22. Engineering of Equity Instruments: Pricing and Replication