Hedging Instruments and Risk Management: How to Use Derivatives to Control Financial Risk in Any Market

by Patrick Cusatis, Martin Thomas

Books on complex hedging instruments are often more confusing than the instruments themselves. Hedging Instruments & Risk Management brings clarity to the topic, giving money managers the straightforward knowledge they need to employ hedging tools and techniques in four key markets--equity, currency, fixed income, and mortgage. Using real-world data and examples, this high-level book shows practitioners how to develop a common set of mathematical and statistical tools for hedging in various markets and then outlines several hedging strategies with the historical performance of each.

432 pages, Hardcover

First published January 21, 2005