Description of Pricing and Managing Exotic and Hybrid Options
Exotic and hybrid options provide, for many risk managers, the ideal risk-protection tool. Many of the rules and strategies are still being formulated, resulting in frequent and costly calculation errors and misunderstandings.
Pricing and Managing Exotic and Hybrid Options introduces methods for pricing, trading, and managing this new generation of derivative products. Risk managers and traders can turn to this practical, hand-on book for detailed mathematical analyses and in-depth coverage including:
correlation - a complete description, and why it is the most important factor to quantify
computer code - sophisticated techniques for building a customized pricing mechanism
valuable appendices - tools and summaries to which practitioners can quickly refer when pricing, trading and managing their own portfolios
Pricing and Managing Exotic and Hybrid Options communicates the fundamental dependence and consequences of correlation effects for the new generation of financial products. But, more than that, its uniquely perceptive and intuitive approach equips traders and risk managers with clear mechanisms for pricing exotic and hybrid options, establishes strategies for managing them, and carefully illustrates methods for integrating them into an overall risk-management portfolio.