Pricing Money: A Beginners Guide to Money, Bonds, Futures and Swaps

This book is an introduction to the markets in deposits, bonds, futures and swaps. It explains the purpose and design of these financial instruments, and how they are used by the various players in the financial system.
The book is for new recruits and potential new recruits in financial markets, as well as accountants, lawyers, and those wishing to understand the basic principles of finance. The author′s engaging, accessible and non–mathematical style is comprehensible by those with no prior financial knowledge.

Spis treści:
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
PART I: A BEGINNER′S TOOLKIT.
Money Markets.
Government Bonds.
Futures.
Swaps.
Options.
Foreign Exchange.
Players.
People.
Price Action
PART II: MORE DETAIL.
Swaps Revisted.
Non–Government Issuance.
Yield, Duration, Repo and Forward Bond Prices.
Bond Futures.
Basic Fixed–Income Arithmetic.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
J.D.A. WISEMAN is a bond and swap trader at Credit Suisse First Boston, having previously been an analyst there and at J.P. Morgan. The author read mathematics at Queens′ College, Cambridge, and lives in London.

Okładka tylna:
This book is an introduction to the markets in deposits, bonds, futures and swaps. It explains the purpose and design of these financial instruments, and how they are used by the various players in the financial system.
The book is for new recruits and potential new recruits in financial markets, as well as accountants, lawyers, and those wishing to understand the basic principles of finance. The author′s engaging, accessible and non–mathematical style is comprehensible by those with no prior financial knowledge.