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    QUANTITATIVE FINANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT
    A Physicist's Approach

    by Jan W Dash (Moore Capital Management, LLC)

    Table of Contents (65k)
    Errata and Additions (3rd Reprint, 2008) (30k)

    About the Author

    Jan Dash was Director of Quantitative Analysis at Citigroup/Salomon Smith Barney, Fuji Capital Markets Corp, and Euro Brokers. He began his Wall Street career in 1987 as V.P. Manager at Merrill Lynch. He introduced path integrals for options, managed PhD quant groups, and worked in many areas in finance involving all the topics in this book. He has a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley, was Directeur de Recherche at the Centre de Physique Théorique CNRS Marseille, and published over 60 scientific papers.
     

    Written by a physicist with over 15 years of experience as a quant on Wall Street, this book treats a wide variety of topics. Presenting the theory and practice of quantitative finance and risk, it delves into the “how to” and “what it's like” aspects not covered in textbooks or research papers. Both standard and new results are presented. A “Technical Index” indicates the mathematical level — from zero to PhD — for each chapter. The finance in each chapter is self-contained. Real-life comments on “life as a quant” are included.

     
    Contents:
    • Standard and Advanced Theory and Practical Applications in Fixed Income, Equities, FX
    • Quantitative Finance and Risk Management Topics: Traditional and Exotic Derivatives, Market Risk, Credit Issuer Risk, Stressed Correlation Matrices, Fat Tails, Stressed/Enhanced VAR, Model Risk/Quality Assurance, Numerical Techniques, Deals/Portfolios, Systems, Data, Economic Capital, Reggeon Field Theory, A Function Toolkit
    • Case Studies in Corporate Finance and Options
    • “Life as a Quant”: Communication Issues, Sociology, Stories, Advice
    • Risk Lab: The Nuts and Bolts of Risk Management
    • Research Topic: The Macro-Micro Model Producing Realistic Yield-Curve Movements, While Combining Aspects of Economics and Finance (with Multiple Time Scales, Multiple Factors, Quasi-Random Macro Trends, Strong Mean-Reverting Micro Trading Fluctuations, Occasional Jumps)
    • Feynman Path Integrals, Green Functions, and Options
     
    Readership: Graduate students in the physical sciences and finance; quantitative analysts in finance; academics; scientists and engineers.
     
    “… this document brings a wealth of practical information on how work is done in real world financial markets, and covers an impressive number of topics, ranging from management and computer system issues to research themes whose potential applications are yet to be explored. It can prove a useful tool to anyone already well acquainted with the basics of mathematical finance, including financial mathematicians, but also quantitative analysts wishing to learn more of the fundamentals without paying too high a price in mathematical prerequisites.”
    Mathematical Reviews
     
    804pp    Pub. date: Jul 2004  
    ISBN:   978-981-238-712-7
    981-238-712-9
       US$116 / £91

     


     

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