Practical Financial Optimization

Decision Making for Financial Engineers
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3201-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 831 g

Practical Financial Optimization is a comprehensive guide to optimization techniques in financial decision making. This book illuminates the relationship between theory and practice, providing the readers with solid foundational knowledge. - Focuses on classical static mean-variance analysis and portfolio immunization, scenario-based models, multi-period dynamic portfolio optimization, and the relationships between classes of models
- Analyizes real world applications and implications for financial engineers
- Includes a list of models and a section on notations that includes a glossary of symbols and abbreviations

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zenios, Stavros A

Weitere Mitwirkende

Markowitz, Harry M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

List of Models.

Notation.

I. Introduction.

1. An Optimization View of Financial Engineering.

2. Basics of Risk Management.

II. Portfolio Optimization Models.

3. Mean-Variance Analysis.

4. Portfolio Models for Fixed Income.

5. Scenario Optimization.

6. Dynamic Portfolio Optimization with Stochastic Programming.

7. Index Funds.

8. Designing Financial Products.

9. Scenario Generation.

III. Applications.

10. Application I: International Asset Allocation.

11. Application II: Corporate Bond Portfolios.

12. Application III: Insurance Policies with Guarantees.

13. Application IV: Personal Financial Planning.

IV. Library of Financial Optimization Models.

14. FINLIB: A Library of Financial Optimization Models

A. Basics of Optimization.

B. Basics of Probability Theory.

C. Stochastic Processes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Stavros Zenios is Professor of Business and Public Administration at the University of Cyprus, Director of the HERMES European Center of Excellence on Computational Finance and Economics, and Senior Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center of the University of Pennsylvania. His previous books include Financial Optimization (1996); Parellel Optimization: Theory Algorithms, and Applications (1997); and Performance of Financial Institutions: Efficiency, Innovation, Regulation (2000).