This book provides a manual on quantitative financial analysis. Focusing on advanced methods for modelling financial markets in the context of practical financial applications, it will cover data, software and techniques that will enable the reader to implement and interpret quantitative methodologies, specifically for trading and investment.

• Includes contributions from an international team of academics and quantitative asset managers from Morgan Stanley, Barclays Global Investors, ABN AMRO and Credit Suisse First Boston.
• Fills the gap for a book on applied quantitative...

Today s financial markets are characterised by a large number of participants, with different appetites for risk, different time horizons, different motivations and reactions to unexpected news. The mathematical techniques and models used in the forecasting of financial markets have therefore grown ever more sophisticated as traders, analysts and investors seek to gain an edge on their competitors. Written by leading international researchers and practitioners, this book focuses on three major themes of today s state of the art financial research: modelling with high frequency data, the...

The mathematical techniques and models used in the forecasting of financial markets grow ever more sophisticated - as books, traders, analysts and investors seek to gain an edge on their competitors. This text focuses on the issue of non-linear modelling of high frequency financial data. Non-linearity refers to situations in which there is a high degree of apparent randomness to the way in which a particular financial measure, price, interest rate, or exchange rate moves with time.

Advances in Quantitative Asset Management contains selected articles which, for the most part, were presented at the Forecasting Financial Markets' Conference. Forecasting Financial Markets' is an international conference on quantitative finance which is held in London in May every year. Since its inception in 1994, the conference has grown in scope and stature to become a key international meeting point for those interested in quantitative finance, with the participation of prestigious academic and research institutions from all over the world, including major central banks and...

As technology advancement has increased, so to have computational applications for forecasting, modelling and trading financial markets and information, and practitioners are finding ever more complex solutions to financial challenges.