The Financial Futures Primer provides the reader with an introduction to the futures markets in general and financial futures in particular.
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The Financial Futures Primer provides the reader with an introduction to the futures markets in general and financial futures in particular. All of the futures contracts explored in the text are approached by a common pricing framework-the proposition that rational prices preclude arbitrage profits.
To ensure that the mathematical demands placed upon the reader are minimal, there is an uncomplicated, applied explanation provided for each topic. As each concept or valuation technique is introduced, it is explained in detail, the relevant formula is presented, and a calculation example is presented.
The text also emphasises the use of financial futures in risk management. While the Financial Futures Primer features ample examples of speculative strategies that can be implemented with these instruments, the focus of the application examples is the management of pre-existing risk.
This brief, yet comprehensive, overview of the complex topics surrounding futures makes the Financial Futures Primer a valuable resource for professionals as well as an ideal supplement for advanced undergraduate courses in finance and economics and MBA level investments courses.
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Robert W. Kolb
Kolb holds two Ph.D.s from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (philosophy 1974, finance 1978) and has been a finance professor at the University of Florida, Emory University, the University of Miami, the University of Colorado, and currently at Loyola University Chicago, where he holds the Considine Chair of Applied Ethics.
Kolb's recent writings include Understanding Futures Markets 6e, and Futures, Options, and Swaps 5e, co-authored with James A. Overdahl. Edited volumes include The Ethics of Executive Compensation, The Ethics of Genetic Commerce, Corporate Retirement Security: Social and Ethical Issues, Corporate Boards: Managers of Risk, Sources of Risk, and the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, a five-volume 1.5 million word work. Bob recently published Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future. Current projects include: Employee Stock Options: Financial, Social, and Ethical Issues and The Financial Crisis of Our Time, forthcoming from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Oxford University Press, respectively.
Bob also is the sponsoring editor for the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-397613.html
Also, visit Bob's web pages:
Academic and professional: http://www.RobertWKolb.com
Photographic: http://www.kolbphoto.com
Kolb holds two Ph.D.s from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (philosophy 1974, finance 1978) and has been a finance professor at the University of Florida, Emory University, the University of Miami, the University of Colorado, and currently at Loyola University Chicago, where he holds the Considine Chair of Applied Ethics.
Kolb's recent writings include Understanding Futures Markets 6e, and Futures, Options, and Swaps 5e, co-authored with James A. Overdahl. Edited volumes include The Ethics of Executive Compensation, The Ethics of Genetic Commerce, Corporate Retirement Security: Social and Ethical Issues, Corporate Boards: Managers of Risk, Sources of Risk, and the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, a five-volume 1.5 million word work. Bob recently published Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future. Current projects include: Employee Stock Options: Financial, Social, and Ethical Issues and The Financial Crisis of Our Time, forthcoming from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Oxford University Press, respectively.
Bob also is the sponsoring editor for the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-397613.html
Also, visit Bob's web pages:
Academic and professional: http://www.RobertWKolb.com
Photographic: http://www.kolbphoto.com
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expected future spot price, expected spot exchange rate, distant futures price, using stock index futures, interest rate parity theorem, nearby futures price, widget contract, zero net position, stock index futures trading, foreign exchange futures market, restricted short selling, current cash price, cash market transaction, differential borrowing, jump volatility, purchasing power parity theorem, short sale proceeds, future spot prices, reversing trade, preexisting risk, full carry, wheat contract, portfolio insurers, normal backwardation, broker groups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, United States, The Wall Street Journal, Total Cash Flow, Dow Jones, Journal of Finance, Brady Report, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Journal of Futures Markets, Transaction Cash Flow, All Rights Reserved Worldwide, International Monetary Market, Major Market Index, Clearing Corporation, Clearing House, Merrill Lynch, The October Crash, Total Interest Expense, World Wide Web, Auction Market, Blackwell Publishers, Date Cash Market Futures Market March, Marketmaker Behavior New!
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expected future spot price, expected spot exchange rate, distant futures price, using stock index futures, interest rate parity theorem, nearby futures price, widget contract, zero net position, stock index futures trading, foreign exchange futures market, restricted short selling, current cash price, cash market transaction, differential borrowing, jump volatility, purchasing power parity theorem, short sale proceeds, future spot prices, reversing trade, preexisting risk, full carry, wheat contract, portfolio insurers, normal backwardation, broker groups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, United States, The Wall Street Journal, Total Cash Flow, Dow Jones, Journal of Finance, Brady Report, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Journal of Futures Markets, Transaction Cash Flow, All Rights Reserved Worldwide, International Monetary Market, Major Market Index, Clearing Corporation, Clearing House, Merrill Lynch, The October Crash, Total Interest Expense, World Wide Web, Auction Market, Blackwell Publishers, Date Cash Market Futures Market March, Marketmaker Behavior New!
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- Understanding Futures Markets by Robert W. Kolb on 4 pages
- Commodity Trading Manual by Chicago Board of Trade on page 49, page 56, and page 137
- International Finance: Concepts and Issues by Gerald D. Gay on page 344, and page 358
- Interest Rate Futures by Gerald D. Gay on page 139, and page 238
- The New Stock Market by Diana R. Harrington on page 317
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