Structured Products
A Complete Toolkit to Face Changing Financial Markets

Roberto Knop (Author)

9780471486473, Wiley

Hardback, published 4 January 2002

208 pages
23.7 x 15.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.425 kg

Over the past decade there has been a great escalation in thesophistication of the
financial markets and technology and as a result many newderivatives products have
been developed.

Structured Products offers practical details on the mainstructured products developed over the last ten years. The booklooks in detail at the risks, valuation and key elements of eachstructured product in turn. It explains the basic principles andunderlying philosophies behind the concept giving investors athrough understanding of each product in a conceptual and practicalway.

Foreword

General introduction

PART I BASIC ASPECTS OF STRUCTURED PRODUCTS

Structured products

Instrument valuation and risk measurement

PART II EQUITY STRUCTURES

Warrants

Equity deposit

Asian deposit

Straddle with knockout deposit

Digital ranges

Reverse convertible

Ladder bond

Basket bond

Spread bond

Best-of bond

PART III FIXED INCOME STRUCTURES

Floating rate note

Reverse floating rate note

Collared floating rate note

Digital ranges (corridor notes)

Step-up callable

Reset note

Participating swap

Performance swap

Step-up triggered cap

Constant maturity bond

Appendix A: Ten golden rules.

Appendix B: Characters from the buyer's viewpoint

Bibliography

Index

Subject Areas: Finance & accounting [KF]