How can managers increase their ability to calculate price and risk data for financial
instruments while decreasing their dependence on a myriad of specific instrument variants?
Wolfgang Schwerdt and Marcelle von Wendland, in co-operation with the European Central
Bank, created a simple and consistent way to handle and process large amounts of complex
financial data. By means of a practical framework, their approach analyzes market and
credit risk exposure of financial instruments and portfolios and calculates risk adjusted
performance measures. Its emphasis on standardization yields significant improvements in
speed and accuracy.
Schwerdt and von Wendland's focus on practical implementation directly addresses
limitations imposed by the complex and costly processing time required for advanced risk
management models and pricing hundreds of thousands of securities each day. Their many
examples and programming codes demonstrate how to use standards to build financial
instruments, how to price them, and how to measure the risk and performance of the
portfolios that include them.
Table of Contents
PART I
1.0
Foreword 600
2.0 Introduction to Pricing, Risk and Performance Measurement 600
2.01 Who is the book for? 500
2.02 Foundations of Pricing 1,500
2.03 Risk Measurement Basics 1,500
2.04 Understanding Performance measurement 1,500
PART II
3.0 Approaches to Pricing 6000
4.0 Pricing Fixed Cash flows 10,000
5.0 Pricing Equity Cash flows 10,000
6.0 Pricing Derivative Cash flows 10,000
7.0 Putting it All Together: Pricing Complex Instruments 5,000
PART III
8.0 Approaches to Risk Measurement 10,000
9.0 Implementing VAR Risk Measurement 8,000
10.0 Implementing ETL Risk Measurement 8,000
11.0 Implementing Risk Measurement Reports 5,000
PART IV
12.0 Approaches to Performance Measurement 10,000
13.0 Implementing Portfolio Performance Measurement 10,000
14.0 Implementing Risk Adjusted Profit Measures 10,000
377 pages, Hardcover