This leading text gives students a solid understanding of financial derivatives and their use in managing the risks of financial decisions.
AN INTRODUCTION TO DERIVATIVES AND RISK MANAGEMENT, 9E, provides a blend of institutional material, theory, and practical applications. The latest financial information throughout this edition and timely updates on the text's website ensure your course reflects the most recent changes in one of the most volatile sectors of today's financial world. You'll find detailed coverage of options, futures, forwards, swaps, and risk management as well as a balanced introduction to pricing, trading, and strategy.
A variety of practical end-of-chapter applications, memorable examples from real businesses, and minimal use of technical mathematics keep the text accessible and engaging for students. Stock-Trak software, available with each new text, provides additional value and practical application opportunities for your students. Approximately 25 PowerPoint slides per chapter highlight tables and figures with useful hyperlinks that allow you to jump to the table or figure and back again without breaking the flow of your lecture. The online Solutions Review Manual gives your students a useful online review tool, providing answers to the end-of-chapter problems, as well as the step-by-step solutions, so students can check their own work and determine exactly where they may have made errors. New Test Bank questions help you better evaluate your students' understanding of the text's concepts. You'll find a variety of more than 300 questions within this proven Test Bank.
About the Author:
Don M. Chance (Ph.D., Louisiana State University; CFA), is the William H. Wright Endowed Chair for Financial Services at Louisiana State University. His research has appeared in leading academic and professional journals, has been presented at seminars, conferences and workshops in the U.S. and many foreign countries, has been supported by the Chicago Board of Trade and the Association for Investment Management and Research, and has appeared as contributed chapters to many books. He has been cited or quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Financial Times, Barron's, Forbes, Institutional Investor, Pensions and Investments, The New York Times, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, USA Today, the Montreal Gazette, the Dow Jones, Bloomberg, and Knight-Ridder news wires, and the ABC and CBS on-line news services, and he has appeared on CNBC's The Money Club. He is associate editor of The Journal of Derivatives, The Journal of Alternative Investments and The Financial Review and is the author of An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management (6th edition forthcoming, 2003) and Essays in Derivatives. Professor Chance has extensive experience as an instructor in professional development programs, a consultant, and as a speaker before practitioner groups. He was founder of Virginia Tech's student-managed investment portfolio.
Robert Brooks Robert Brooks is the SouthTrust Professor of Financial Management at The University of Alabama; President of Financial Risk Management, LLC, a derivatives consulting firm; and founding partner of BlueCreek Investment Partners, LLC, a money management firm. Dr. Brooks earned his B.S. in finance from Florida State University and his Ph.D. in finance from the University of Florida. He has authored numerous articles appearing in both academic and practitioner journals. Professor Brooks has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and The Bond Buyer, as well as numerous
