Research and Markets: Structured Products: Evolution and Analysis

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/v6wqmj/structured) has announced the addition of the "Structured Products: Evolution and Analysis" book to their offering.

Structured Products have risen dramatically to the forefront of the financial markets. These bespoke investment strategies can be used as an alternative to a direct investment, as part of the asset allocation process to reduce risk exposure of a portfolio, or to utilize the current market trend.

Editor Clarke Pitts, a derivatives trader who has spent much of his career working at Salomon Brothers and JP Morgan, has assembled a highly qualified team of contributors who collectively survey the state of the industry from an international perspective in an accessible format.

The structured products industry has become a substantial, but widely misunderstood, business. Structured products, though often deemed capricious and hard to define, have evolved into a mainstream investment product for investors all over the world, with Japan in particular seeing the issue of these products at historically high levels. Many finance professionals are aware of their existence but lack a comprehensive understanding of their history and how they function unless they are directly involved in them.

With a Foreword by Gillian Tett to set the scene, Structured Products takes the reader on a tour through the past, present, and future of the industry, providing a concise and complete guide to the breadth of its scale and scope around the world. The book will cover the evolution and history of the markets in the UK and Europe, Asia, Japan, and North America, their idiosyncrasies and characteristics, an analysis of the losses accrued in the past, regulatory responses (including the introduction by the European Commission of its PRIPs regime proposal), risk management and modelling, and a forecast for their future.

Key Topics Covered:

Section I: Evolution and History

Chapter 1: What are Structured Products?

Chapter 2: History and Evolution: What Happened and Why?

Section II: Idiosyncrasies of the Markets

Chapter 3: UK and Europe

Chapter 4: Structured Products in Asia

Chapter 5: Structured Products in Japan: Part 1

Chapter 6: Structured Products in Japan: Part 2

Chapter 7: A History of the US Structured Products Industry

Section III: Problems and Remedies

Chapter 8: The Regulation of Structured Products

Chapter 9: Risk and Modelling

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