Greg N. Gregoriou

Fabrice D. Rouah

Nicolas Papageorgiou

Georges Hübner

Whether already experienced with hedge funds or just thinking about investing in them, readers need a firm understanding of this unique investment vehicle in order to achieve maximum success. Hedge Funds unites over thirty of the top practitioners and academics in the hedge fund industry to provide readers with the latest findings in this field. Their analysis deals with a variety of topics, from new methods of performance evaluation to portfolio allocation and risk/return matters. Although some of the information is technical in nature, an understanding and applicability of the results as well as theoretical developments are stressed. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Hedge Funds helps readers make the most of this flexible investment vehicle.

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Practical options pricing for better-informed investment decisions. The Heston Model and Its Extensions in VBA is the definitive guide to options pricing using two of the derivatives industry's most powerful modeling tools—the Heston model, and VBA. Light on theory, this extremely useful reference focuses on implementation, and can help investors more efficiently—and accurately—exploit market information to better inform investment decisions. Coverage includes a description of the Heston model, with specific emphasis on equity options pricing and variance modeling, The book focuses not only on the original Heston model, but also on the many enhancements and refinements that have been applied to the model, including methods that use the Fourier transform, numerical integration schemes, simulation, methods for pricing American options, and much more. The companion website offers pricing code in VBA that resides in an extensive set of Excel spreadsheets. The Heston model is the derivatives industry's most popular stochastic volatility model for pricing equity derivatives. This book provides complete guidance toward the successful implementation of this valuable model using the industry's ubiquitous financial modeling software, giving users the understanding—and VBA code—they need to produce option prices that are more accurate, and volatility surfaces that more closely reflect market conditions. Derivatives pricing is often the hinge on which profit is made or lost in financial institutions, making accuracy of utmost importance. This book will help risk managers, traders, portfolio managers, quants, academics and other professionals better understand the Heston model and its extensions, in a writing style that is clear, concise, transparent and easy to understand. For better pricing accuracy, The Heston Model and Its Extensions in VBA is a crucial resource for producing more accurate model outputs such as prices, hedge ratios, volatilities, and graphs.

The Heston Model and Its Extensions in VBA

Gregory Vainberg

This comprehensive guide offers traders, quants, and studentsthe tools and techniques for using advanced models for pricingoptions. The accompanying website includes data files, such asoptions prices, stock prices, or index prices, as well as all ofthe codes needed to use the option and volatility models describedin the book. Praise for Option Pricing Models & Volatility UsingExcel-VBA "Excel is already a great pedagogical tool for teaching optionvaluation and risk management. But the VBA routines in this bookelevate Excel to an industrial-strength financial engineeringtoolbox. I have no doubt that it will become hugely successful as areference for option traders and risk managers." —Peter Christoffersen, Associate Professor of Finance,Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University "This book is filled with methodology and techniques on how toimplement option pricing and volatility models in VBA. The booktakes an in-depth look into how to implement the Heston and Hestonand Nandi models and includes an entire chapter on parameterestimation, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. Everyoneinterested in derivatives should have this book in their personallibrary." —Espen Gaarder Haug, option trader, philosopher, andauthor of Derivatives Models on Models "I am impressed. This is an important book because it is thefirst book to cover the modern generation of option models,including stochastic volatility and GARCH." —Steven L. Heston, Assistant Professor of Finance,R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Option Pricing Models and Volatility Using Excel-VBA

François-Serge Lhabitant

Vassilios Karavas

Authoritative, up-to-date research and analysis that provides a dramatic new understanding of the rewards-and risks-of investing in CTAs Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) are an increasingly popular and potentially profitable investment alternative for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. Commodity Trading Advisors is one of the first books to study their performance in detail and analyze the "survivorship bias" present in CTA performance data. This book investigates the many benefits and risks associated with CTAs, examining the risk/return characteristics of a number of different strategies deployed by CTAs from a sophisticated investor's perspective. A contributed work, its editors and contributing authors are among today's leading voices on the topic of commodity trading advisors and a veritable "Who's Who" in hedge fund and CTA research. Greg N. Gregoriou (Plattsburgh, NY) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance and Research Coordinator in the School of Business and Economics at the State University of New York. Vassilios N. Karavas (Amherst, MA) is Director of Research at Schneeweis Partners. Francois-Serge Lhabitant (Coppet, Switzerland) is a FAME Research Fellow, and a Professor of Finance at EDHEC (France) and at HEC University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Fabrice Rouah (Montreal, Quebec) is Institut de Finance Mathématique de Montréal Scholar in the finance program at McGill University.

Risk, Performance Analysis, and Selection

Commodity Trading Advisors

Tap into the power of the most popular stochastic volatilitymodel for pricing equity derivatives Since its introduction in 1993, the Heston model has become apopular model for pricing equity derivatives, and the most popularstochastic volatility model in financial engineering. This vitalresource provides a thorough derivation of the original model, andincludes the most important extensions and refinements that haveallowed the model to produce option prices that are more accurateand volatility surfaces that better reflect market conditions. Thebook's material is drawn from research papers and many of themodels covered and the computer codes are unavailable from othersources. The book is light on theory and instead highlights theimplementation of the models. All of the models found here havebeen coded in Matlab and C#. This reliable resource offers anunderstanding of how the original model was derived from Ricattiequations, and shows how to implement implied and local volatility,Fourier methods applied to the model, numerical integrationschemes, parameter estimation, simulation schemes, Americanoptions, the Heston model with time-dependent parameters, finitedifference methods for the Heston PDE, the Greeks, and the doubleHeston model. A groundbreaking book dedicated to the exploration of theHeston model—a popular model for pricing equityderivatives Includes a companion website, which explores the Heston modeland its extensions all coded in Matlab and C# Written by Fabrice Douglas Rouah a quantitative analyst whospecializes in financial modeling for derivatives for pricing andrisk management Engaging and informative, this is the first book to dealexclusively with the Heston Model and includes code in Matlab andC# for pricing under the model, as well as code for parameterestimation, simulation, finite difference methods, Americanoptions, and more.

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