Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures: A Guide to Instruments and Applications, 2nd Edition

by Janet M. Tavakoli

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Fully revised and updated
Here is the only comprehensive source that explains the various instruments in the market, their economic value, how to document trades, and more. This new edition includes enhanced treatment of U.S. and worldwide regulatory issues, and new product structures.
"If you want to know more about credit derivatives--and these days an increasing number of people do--then you should read this book."
--Merton H. Miller, winner, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
"Tavakoli brings extraordinary insight and clarity to this fascinating financial evolution . . ."--Carl V. Schuman, Manager, Credit Derivatives, West LB New York
Janet M. Tavakoli (Chicago, IL) is Vice President of the Chicago branch of Bank of America, where she directs the company's overall marketing of global derivatives and manages its CreditMetrics initiative.

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Average Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

Great Book, 2007-03-31
Great book for introduction of CDS and other structured products. I work in risk and this book helped clarify several things.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

a practical guide, 2006-10-31
This is a good book about how credit risk derivatives are handled in the daily practice of a big international bank. Although the author clearly knows her math the book contains hardly any formula. Since I am a model builder and most clients of our treasury consultancy firm are medium seize companies there initially was a misfit. However this book is a very good antidote for people putting too much faith in mathematical models. I can not help being one of them. I liked the down to earth approach very much. In the end I learned a lot more than I thought I would.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Recommendation from a Credit Derivatives Trader, 2005-10-15
This is my fourth purchase; this one is for a new analyst I hired. I have read Janet Tavakoli's book as well as all of the current literature on credit derivatives. This book is one of the best books on derivatives I have read in terms of style of writing and content (I'm not after the mathematics on finance; there are plenty of those). I am a current successful credit derivatives trader.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

Good collection, 2005-03-27
I am a Fin Math student and by now a Google search expert. I do have this book from my library and it requires patience .
Personally I would keep it that way borrow from a library and read free research on the net with more math. It is a good buy for a practioner who needs to refer various structures and market structure in one place. The author has definetely put in effort to collate all her years of market experience.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Derivatives Sales view:, 2004-03-24
POSITIVE POINTS: Best indepth book on Credit Derivatives. Very readable. Explains very nicely why this derivatives are so important for banks. Non technical.

NEGATIVE POINTS: Focus on banks with only a little chapter on Credit Derivatives as investment products. No explanation how those derivatives are priced (but hey, there are loads of technical books)

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