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Название: Fundamentals of Financial Instruments

Автор: Sunil K. Parameswaran

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: Ценные бумаги, инвестиции

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isbn: 9781119816638

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      Excel has many useful functions for students and professionals in the field of Finance. I have described the use of many of these functions at key places in the book.

      The previous edition had some statistical information on markets, and certain qualitative descriptive features, which I felt were better to remove. I have eliminated such features in the second edition. I feel that a chapter on clearing and settlement may be relevant for the kind of audience that this book aims to address. I will bring that in if and when there is a third edition.

      Readers are welcome to share their comments and suggestions with me. Constructive advice and criticism is welcome and will be incorporated while undertaking revision of the material in future. My email is: [email protected]

      I hope that the book serves as a source of pertinent and comprehensive knowledge for readers everywhere.

      Sunil K. Parameswaran

      Director & CEO

      Tarheel Consultancy Services

      Manipal, India

      November 2021

      This book grew out of my lecture notes used for corporate training programs in India and abroad. The feedback from participants has been invaluable in polishing and refining the exposition. The eventual flow and clarity that I believe I have been able to achieve is in no small measure due to the critical and incisive inputs of my students as well as professional acquaintances.

      There is typically no course exclusively on financial instruments in most MBA curricula. Consequently, this topic invariably gets combined with material on financial institutions as part of a course on Financial Markets. I, however, believe that there is a strong case for offering a comprehensive course on financial instruments for second-year MBA students. However, care should be taken to ensure that material which is covered in traditional courses like Financial Derivatives and Fixed Income Securities is not repeated any more than is necessary. Many students who take such a course may not be majoring in Finance and consequently may not take specialized courses such as Derivatives. For them therefore the specter of substantial overlap is less of an issue. Even for students of Finance, despite the inevitable repetition of facets of topics such as Bonds, Futures, and Options, a course on instruments is a comprehensive and integrated offering that will serve them in good stead in the future.

      The book starts from first principles and builds in intensity. Exposure to one or more courses on Financial Management will certainly be useful for the reader as he or she navigates through the material. While the book is a standalone treatise on the subject, readers may like to augment it with standard texts on issues in Finance such as Security Analysis, Bond Markets, Futures & Options, and International Finance.

      The issues covered in this book are universal and of relevance for students of Finance as well as market professionals irrespective of where they may happen to be located. However, most of the illustrations and examples pertain to markets in the developed world, particularly the United States, and the products that trade in them. Consequently the book should have appeal for readers in all parts of the world.

      Readers are welcome to share their comments and suggestions with me. Constructive advice and criticism is welcome and will be incorporated while undertaking revision of the material in future. My E-mail ID is: [email protected]

      I hope that the book serves as a source of pertinent and comprehensive knowledge for readers everywhere.

      Sunil K. Parameswaran

      T.A. Pai Management Institute

      Manipal – 576104

      Karnataka, India

      I am indebted to all my students in India and Australia who went through this material and offered ideas for embellishing the content and polishing the exposition. The participants at my Executive Education programs offered invaluable advice. Because most of them were non-Finance professionals, primarily from the Information Technology field, they had unusual and interesting perspectives which helped augment the more traditional feedback from business school students and associates.

      I am extremely grateful to John Wiley & Sons, Singapore, for giving me the opportunity to develop and promote this book. In particular I owe a tremendous debt to my former publisher, Nick Wallwork, for taking a chance with an unknown Indian academic. Gladys Ganaden, who subsequently took over, has been an enormous source of support and encouragement. She is the primary force behind the second edition of the book, for she perceived the need and inspired me to write it. I am indebted to her.

      The editorial team of Purvi and Pradesh has been very supportive of this project right from the outset and I owe them an enormous debt. Donna, who was the copyeditor, has done a wonderful job, and has provided invaluable support at the copyediting and typesetting phases.

      And finally, I am indebted to my mother for her patience and moral support.

      Sunil K. Parameswaran is the director and CEO of Tarheel Consultancy Services, a corporate training and management consultancy firm set up by him in 2004.

      Sunil is a Visiting Faculty at some of the leading business schools in India, where he anchors courses in the area of Finance. His primary areas of interest are Securities Markets; Financial Derivatives; Fixed Income Securities; and International Finance.

      For the past 20 years Sunil has been active as a corporate trainer and management consultant. He has delivered training programs on Global Securities Markets and Global Banking to some of the multinational IT firms located in India. Sunil also has over 30 years of teaching experience and has taught at leading business schools in the United States (University of Iowa), Singapore (National University of Singapore), Australia (La Trobe University), and India.

      His past clients include WIPRO Technologies, HCL, Capgemini, Accenture, Microland, and JPMC.

      Sunil obtained his PhD in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in North Carolina. He obtained his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and holds an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi.

      A prolific writer, he has published several books with John Wiley & Sons in Singapore and DeG Press in the United States. His most recent book is Fixed Income Securities, published by DeG Press, Boston/Berlin.

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