Fixed-income securities and derivatives handbook: analysis and valuation

Moorad Choudhry9781576601648, 1-57660-164-1

Written by professionals for professionals, Credit Derivative Strategies is an in-depth, comprehensive guide to investing with credit derivatives. Emphasizing real-world applications, the contributors cover three broad topics:
* investment strategies currently used by institutional investors and hedge funds, including ways to find opportunities in relative value, distressed debt, and synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).
* risk management strategies designed to construct and optimize portfolios containing complex credit derivatives, including up-to-date techniques for evaluating event risk.
* pricing and valuation of credit default swaps, CDOs, and other products, including variations of time-to-default copula models.
These investment, risk management, and pricing strategies will keep experienced derivatives traders ahead of the curve. A special section describing the mechanics of twenty-two credit products will orient those new to the rapidly expanding market of credit derivatives.
The contributing authors of this book are practicing professionals with experience in leadership positions at Merrill Lynch, TriPoint Asset Management, UBS, Salomon Smith Barney, Perry Capital, Nomura Securities International, Dalton Investments, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Kenmar Global Investment Management, and Citigroup.
This book qualifies for 7.5 PD credits under the guidelines of the CFA Institute Professional Development Program.