Understanding Interest Rate Swaps

by Mary S. Ludwig and Mary S. Ludwig Schaeffer

Book Overview

Across the globe, professional cash, treasury, and portfolio managers, as well as government regulators, are scrutinizing Swaps - innovative, easily customized synthetic investment vehicles that permit savvy users to fine-tune interest rate and currency exposure, manage debt, hedge against geopolitical uncertainty, and dramatically enhance investment portfolio returns. Understanding Interest Rate Swaps presents a clear and compelling picture of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070390207
• ISBN13: 9780070390201
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Me thinks some reviewers protest too much

This book has been damned for being too simplistic, therefore consign it to the trash cart, or so we are expected to do. But given the relative novelty of these financial products simplicity in the best sense of word could be seen as a virtue in any work dealing with this topic. So, why the evident annoyance from some. Could it be that this work dissolves some of the mystery involved, and threatens some closed shop in these markets ?