This is an excellent book to grasp the basics of financial risk management. Everything in the book is explained from scratch and the concepts are very well exemplified with real life situations. Accompanied with a website filled with excel sheets for application, the book is great for future...

We develop a copula-based pairs trading framework and apply it to the S&P 100 index constituents from 1990 to 2014. We propose an integrated approach, using copulas for pairs selection and trading. Essentially, we fit t-copulas to all possible combinations of pairs in a 12 month formation...