An inside look at modern approaches to modeling equity portfolios

Financial Modeling of the Equity Market is the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to modeling equity portfolios. The book is intended for a wide range of quantitative analysts, practitioners, and students of finance. Without sacrificing mathematical rigor, it presents arguments in a concise and clear style with a wealth of real-world examples and practical simulations. This book presents all the major approaches to single-period return analysis, including modeling, estimation, and optimization issues....

While mainstream financial theories and applications assume that asset returns are normally distributed, overwhelming empirical evidence shows otherwise. Yet many professionals don't appreciate the highly statistical models that take this empirical evidence into consideration. Fat-Tailed and Skewed Asset Return Distributions examines this dilemma and offers readers a less technical look at how portfolio selection, risk management, and option pricing modeling should and can be undertaken when the assumption of a non-normal distribution for asset returns is violated. Topics covered in...

Since first edition's publication, the CDO market has seen tremendous growth. As of 2005, $1.1 trillion of CDOs were outstanding -- making them the fastest-growing investment vehicle of the last decade. To help you keep up with this expanding market and its various instruments, Douglas Lucas, Laurie Goodman, and Frank Fabozzi have collaborated to bring you this fully revised and up-to-date new edition of Collateralized Debt Obligations. Written in a clear and accessible style, this valuable resource provides critical information regarding the evolving nature of the CDO market. You'll...

A comprehensive guide to financial econometrics

Financial econometrics is a quest for models that describe financial time series such as prices, returns, interest rates, and exchange rates. In Financial Econometrics, readers will be introduced to this growing discipline and the concepts and theories associated with it, including background material on probability theory and statistics. The experienced author team uses real-world data where possible and brings in the results of published research provided by investment banking firms and journals. Financial Econometrics clearly explains the...

Praise for Robust Portfolio Optimization and Management

"In the half century since Harry Markowitz introduced his elegant theory for selecting portfolios, investors and scholars have extended and refined its application to a wide range of real-world problems, culminating in the contents of this masterful book. Fabozzi, Kolm, Pachamanova, and Focardi deserve high praise for producing a technically rigorous yet remarkably accessible guide to the latest advances in portfolio construction."
--Mark Kritzman, President and CEO, Windham Capital Management, LLC

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Corporate bonds are one of today's most dynamic investment areas. In recent years, more complex bond structures and the use of embedded derviatives have made investing in corporate bonds much more challenging. analysis and investment strategies. It discusses state-of-the-art knowledge for valuing corporate bonds as well as innovative products such as step-up notes and range notes. Topics include: an overview of the US corporate bonds market; bond pricing and yield measures; valuing callable and other corporate bond structures; and managing a corporate bond portfolio.

Provides comprehensive coverage of the major asset-backed securities, structuring issues and relative value analysis. Topics include: the expanding frontiers of asset securitization; trends in the structuring of ABSs; introduction to ABS accounting; and prepayment nomenclature in the ABS market.

Provides an outline of methods by which executives can achieve investment objectives and maximize return on invested capital, while measuring and minimizing risks that must be incurred. Areas addressed include features of investment vehicles, and yield measures and their limitations.

This text brings together a selection of opinion and research to provide in-depth coverage of securities lending and repurchase agreements, a growing activity in the capital markets. A variety of issues are tackled including, accounting and tax aspects in both USA and non-USA markets.

Treasury securities represent the largest sector of interest rate markets. This book will provide securities newcomers with the tools they need to get up to speed and seasoned professionals with a valuable reference source. The book covers every aspect of the market, including: the basics, valuation techniques, risk analysis, and utilizing derivatives to control interest rate risk.