Business Snapshots

1.1 The Hidden Costs of Bankruptcy
2.1 Google’s IPO
2.2 PeopleSoft’s Poison Pill
2.3 How to Keep Loans Performing
3.1 Equitable Life
3.2 A Perfect Storm
4.1 Mutual Fund Returns Can Be Misleading
5.1 The Unanticipated Delivery of a Futures Contract
5.2 A System’s Error?
5.3 Microsoft’s Hedging
5.4 Procter and Gamble’s Bizarre Deal
5.5 SocGen’s Big Loss in 2008
6.1 All BBBs Are Not the Same
6.2 A Trading Opportunity?
7.1 Hedging By Gold Mining Companies
7.2 Dynamic Hedging in Practice
7.3 Is Delta Hedging Easier or More Difficult for Exotics?
9.1 Historical Perspectives on VaR
10.1 What Causes Volatility?
10.2 Making Money from Foreign Currency Options
12.1 Systemic Risk
13.1 Credit Suisse’s CoCo Bond Issues
16.1 The CDS Market
16.2 Is the CDS Market a Fair Game?
16.3 Risk-Neutral Valuation
16.4 Contagion
17.1 Rehypothecation
19.1 Long-Term Capital Management’s Big Loss
19.2 Traffic Light Options
20.1 The Hammersmith and Fulham Story
20.2 Rogue Trader Insurance
21.1 Northern Rock
21.2 Ashanti Goldfields
21.3 Metallgesellschaft
21.4 The Crash of 1987
22.1 Kidder Peabody’s Embarrassing Mistake
22.2 Exploiting the Weaknesses of a Competitor’s Model
22.3 Crashophobia
23.1 The EGT Fund
24.1 Big Losses

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