"In this comprehensive book, the accounting perspective and the regulatory approach to risk and capital management are systematically discussed, with specifications for banks and insurance companies. By applying his own experience from both the financial industry and a supervisory institution,...

The hedging argument of Black and Scholes (1973) hinges on the assumption that a continuously rebalanced asset portfolio satisfies the continuous-time self-financing condition. This condition, which is a special case of the continuous-time budget equation of Merton (1971), is believed to...

The option pricing formula of Black and Scholes (1973) hinges on the continuous-time self-financing condition, which is a special case of the continuous-time budget equation of Merton (1971). The self-financing condition is believed to formalize the economic concept of portfolio rebalancing...

Written by an experienced trader and consultant, Frans de Weert's Exotic Options Trading offers a risk-focused approach to the pricing of exotic options. By giving readers the necessary tools to understand exotic options, this book serves as a manual to equip the reader with the skills to price...