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Features

• Risk Takers goes beyond the headlines by covering well-known events comprehensively. Subjects include the Orange County and Barings Bank bankruptcies and massive losses suffered by Long-Term Capital Management, as well as other equally dramatic derivative-related events.
• Engaging stories are written in a clear and accessible style to engage readers.
• Risk Notepad boxes add depth to key topics in the study of financial derivatives.
• End-of-chapter questions test understanding of the principles underlying the stories.
• The Companion Website contains online appendices that dig deeper into several of the cases and the financial concepts involved.
  

New To This Edition

• A new brief introductory chapter, Primer on Derivatives, concisely reinforces fundamental derivatives concepts such as the different types of derivative contracts and basic terminology.
• A new case on Amaranth Advisors LLC is added as Chapter 9.
• A handy glossary is added at the back of the book for easy reference.
• Risk Notepad boxes (known as Content Highlight boxes in the First Edition) reinforce and expound fundamental derivatives concepts and strategies as they appear in the cases.
• Solutions to end-of-chapter problems are available for download as Adobe^® PDF files from the Instructor Resource Center.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Primer on Derivatives
Chapter 2: Employee Stock Options: What Every MBA Student Should Know
Chapter 3: Roche Holding: The Company, Its Financial Strategy, and Bull Spread Warrants
Chapter 4: Metallgesellschaft AG: Illusion of Profits and Losses; Reality of Cash Flows
Chapter 5: Swaps That Shook an Industry: Procter & Gamble versus Bankers Trust
Chapter 6: Orange County: The Largest Municipal Failure in U.S. History
Chapter 7: Barings Bank PLC: Leeson’s Lessons
Chapter 8: Long Term Capital Mismanagement: “JM & The Arb Boys”
Chapter 9: Amaranth Advisors LLC: Using Natural Gas Futures to Bet on the Weather

Courses

Corporate Risk Management  (Finance)
Options and Futures  (Finance)
Derivatives  (Finance)

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• Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives
  Marthinsen
  ©2005  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 270 pp  |  Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0321197488  |  ISBN-13: 9780321197481
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  Risk Takers profiles seven real-life situations in which financial derivatives resulted in fabulous success or spectacular failure while also exploring some everyday uses of derivatives, such as stock options. Beyond simple case studies, this book fully explores the events, providing context and discussing outcomes. Studying the affects of the derivative-related decisions made by companies and municipalities, readers gain a full understanding of these complex instruments. These clearly written stories bridge the gap between financial theory and real world applications, and are recommended reading for all students of finance and anyone interested in the world of finance and financial derivatives.

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