Derivatives A Comprehensive Resource for Options, Futures, Interest Rate Swaps, and Mortgage Securities

Arditti describes and explains four major classes of derivative instruments: options, futures, interest rate swaps, and mortgage derivatives. He discusses each market's structure and the applications and pricing of each instrument, focusing on the valuation methods that are most commonly used by professional market participants. Each segment begins with a description of the institutional arrangements that have come to characterize the markets in which the instruments trade. Arditti examines basic derivatives in each class with respect to their risk transference properties, risk management applications, and pricing. He then traces the evolution of these markets in terms of new instruments introduced, the factors inspiring their development, and the alterations in pricing technology required by more complex derivatives. Arditti includes numerical examples to clarify the procedures. The Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis Series.Arditti, Fred D. is the author of 'Derivatives A Comprehensive Resource for Options, Futures, Interest Rate Swaps, and Mortgage Securities' with ISBN 9780875845609 and ISBN 0875845606.