Principles of Financial Engineering

Introduction; A Review of Markets, Players, and Conventions; Cash Flow Engineering with Forward Contracts; Engineering Simple Interest Rate Derivatives; Introduction to Swap Engineering; Repo Market Strategies in Financial Engineering; Dynamic Replication Methods and Synthetics; Mechanics of Options; Engineering Convexity Positions; Options Engineering with Applications; Pricing Tools in Financial Engineering; Applications of Fundamental Theorem of Finance; A Framework for Fixed Income Engineering and LIBOR Market Model; Tools for Volatility Engineering: Volatility Swaps and Volatility Trading; Smile Effects in Financial Engineering; Engineering of Equity Instruments: Pricing and Replication

Professor Neftci completed his PhD at the University of Minnesota. Currently he teaches at the Graduate School, City University of New York, ICMA Centre, University of Reading, UK, and at the University Of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is also a Visiting Professor in the Finance Department at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the head of the FAME Certificate program in Switzerland. Professor Neftci is known for his books and articles. His books, An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives and Principles of Financial Engineering, are standard texts in most university derivatives courses. The more recent book, Principles of Financial Engineering, was selected as the runner up for The Book of the Year award by Risk magazine during 2004. His current research deals with pricing of contingent credit lines, the relationship between yield curve curvature and volatility. He is also working on using the Credit Default Swap prices to predict financial crises. Overall, Professor Neftci's research and teaching is in the areas of financial engineering, risk management of extreme events and in emerging market asset trading strategies. His latest papers deal with risk measurement using extreme value theory and volatility dynamics. Professor Neftci is a consultant to various financial institutions and teaches high-level courses on cutting-edge issues to advanced financial market professionals. He was recently a consultant with the World Bank and with the IFC. He regularly holds highly visible workshops for market professionals on Financial Engineering, Mathematics for Financial Derivatives, and Calibration Methods. Currently he is a Risk Management Advisor to IMF. Professor Neftci is also a regular columnist for CBN daily, a financial daily in Shanghai, the most influential financial newspaper in China. His columns dealing with current financial market activity are regularly quoted on sina.com and on sohu.com.

"This is the first comprehensive hands-on introduction to financial engineering. Neftci is enjoyable to read, and finds a natural balance between theory and practice." - Darrell Duffie, James I. Miller Professor of Finance, The Graduate School of Business, Stanford University "Neftci's book captures much of the excitement of the recent surge of theoretical and practical work on financial engineering. A variety of readers will be interested in this book, including lay people who are interested in better understanding how financial markets can be used to share and mitigate risks and practicioners who are interested in constructing and valuing new securities." - Thomas Sargent, Professor of Economics at NYU, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University "...an excellent book on which to base an initial course in a financial engineering or mathematics program ... [It] has a breadth and consistency that make it an excellent introduction to what practitioners need to know." - Financial Analysts Journal