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Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives
John Marthinsen, Babson College

ISBN-10: 0321197488
ISBN-13: 9780321197481

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 270 pp
Published: 12/29/2003
Status: Instock

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Risk Takers profiles seven real-life situations in which financial derivatives resulted in fabulous success or spectacular failure while also exploring some everyday uses of derivatives, such as stock options. Beyond simple case studies, this book fully explores the events, providing context and discussing outcomes. Studying the affects of the derivative-related decisions made by companies and municipalities, readers gain a full understanding of these complex instruments. These clearly written stories bridge the gap between financial theory and real world applications, and are recommended reading for all students of finance and anyone interested in the world of finance and financial derivatives.

Goes beyond the headlines covering well-known events in depth—including the Orange County and Barings Bank bankruptcies and massive losses suffered by Long-Term Capital Management, as well as other equally dramatic derivative-related events.

Provides the crucial link between theory and practice.

Holds readers' attention with engaging stories written in a clear and accessible style.

Contains Concept Highlights to add depth to key topics in the study of financial derivatives.

Uses end-of-chapter questions to test understanding of the principles underlying the stories.

Part I.

1. Employee Stock Options: What Every MBA Should Know.

2. Roche Holdings: The Company, Its Financial Strategy, and Bull Spread Warrants.

3. The Three Amigos.

Part II.

4. Metallgesellschaft AG: Illusion of Profits and Losses, Reality of Cash Flows.

5. Swaps That Shook an Industry: Procter & Gamble - Bankers Trust.

6. Orange County: The Larges Municipal Failure in U.S. History.

7. Barings Bank PLC: Leeson's Lessons.

8. Long-Term MisManagement: "JM and the Arb Boys".

Corporate Risk Management (Finance)
Derivatives (Finance)
Options and Futures (Finance)

Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives, 2/E
Marthinsen
©2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 352 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321542568 | ISBN-13: 9780321542564
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In an approachable, non-technical manner, Risk Takers brings eight modern financial derivatives situations to life, fully exploring the context of each event and evaluating the outcomes. Recognizing that the analysis of derivatives and risk-management techniques is often challenging for students, these selected examples bridge the gap between theory and application to help readers develop intuition into the complex decisions made by companies and municipalities. With a new introductory chapter that reinforces fundamental concepts, Risk Takers is the ideal accompaniment for any derivatives, options and futures, or risk management text.

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©2005 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
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Solutions to End-of Chapter Questions
Marthinsen
©2005 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Estimated Availability : 01/12/2005
ISBN-10: 032136208X | ISBN-13: 9780321362087
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ISBN-10: 032122860X | ISBN-13: 9780321228604
URL: http://www.aw.com/marthinsen

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ISBN-10: 032122860X | ISBN-13: 9780321228604
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