Bouzoubaa / Osseiran Exotic Options and Hybrids

A Guide to Structuring, Pricing and Trading
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-97054-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten, E-Book

The recent financial crisis brought to light many of themisunderstandings and misuses of exotic derivatives. With marketparticipants on both the buy and sell-side having been found guiltyof not understanding the products they were dealing with, neverbefore has there been a greater need for clarification andexplanation.
Exotic Options and Hybrids is a practical guide tostructuring, pricing and hedging complex exotic options and hybridderivatives that will serve readers through the recent crisis, theroad to recovery, the next bull market and beyond. Written byexperienced practitioners, it focuses on the three main parts of aderivative's life: the structuring of a product, its pricingand its hedging.
Divided into four parts, the book covers a multitude ofstructures, encompassing many of the most up-to-date and promisingproducts from exotic equity derivatives and structured notes tohybrid derivatives and dynamic strategies. Based on a realisticsetting from the heart of the business, inside a derivativesoperation, the practical and intuitive discussions of these aspectsmake these exotic concepts truly accessible.
Adoptions of real trades are examined in detail, and all of thenumerous examples are carefully selected so as to highlightinteresting and significant aspects of the business. Theintroduction of payoff structures is accompanied by scenarioanalysis, diagrams and lifelike sample term sheets. Readers learnhow to spot where the risks lie to pave the way for sound valuationand hedging of such products. There are also questions andaccompanying discussions dispersed in the text, each exploited toillustrate one or more concepts from the context in which they areset.
The applications, the strengths and the limitations of variousmodels are highlighted, in relevance to the products and theirrisks, rather than the model implementations. Models arede-mystified in separately dedicated sections, but theirimplications are alluded to throughout the book in an intuitive andnon-mathematical manner.
By discussing exotic options and hybrids in a practical,non-mathematical and highly intuitive setting, this book will blastthrough the misunderstanding of exotic derivatives, enablingpractitioners to fully understand and correctly structure, priceand hedge theses products effectively, and stand strong as the onlybook in its class to make these "exotic" concepts trulyaccessible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bouzoubaa, Mohamed

Osseiran, Adel

Über Autor(innen)

MOHAMED BOUZOUBAA is an experienced practitioner in theworld of derivatives, and is currently Head of Derivatives Tradingand Structuring at CDG Capital. His professional expertise spansthe spectrum of topics in exotic options and hybrids having heldpositions in Equity Derivatives Sales at SociétéGénérale in Paris, as a Risk and Fund Management expertat Sophis specializing in the risks involved in equity, credit andfixed income derivatives, and as a derivatives structurer at BearStearns/JP Morgan Chase in London and Equity Structured ProductsManager at First Gulf Bank in Dubai. Mohamed holds masters degreesin Financial Engineering and in Applied Mathematics.
ADEL OSSEIRAN is a mathematician by training. His work asa financial practitioner in derivative pricing includes working infront office roles as a quantitative analyst and as a derivativesstructurer in London. He studied Mathematics at the University ofOxford and to PhD level in Financial Mathematics at ImperialCollege London.