Description
In an approachable, non-technical manner, Risk Takers brings eight up to date financial derivatives situations to life, fully exploring the context of every event and evaluating the outcomes. Primer on Derivatives; Worker Stock Options: What Each and every MBA Student Must Know; Roche Holding: The Company, Its Financial Strategy, and Bull Spread Warrants; Metallgesellschaft AG: Illusion of Profits and Losses; Reality of Cash Flows; Swaps That Shook an Industry: Procter & Gamble as opposed to Bankers Believe; Orange County: The Largest Municipal Failure in U.S. History; Barings Bank PLC: Leeson’s Lessons; Long Term Capital Mismanagement: “JM & The Arb Boys”; Amaranth Advisors LLC: The usage of Natural Gas Futures to Bet at the Weather. For all readers occupied with financial derivatives, options, futures, and risk management.