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Review“The Structured Credit Handbook is an outstanding achievement. It provides and excellent and well-written tutorial on all aspects of structured credit markets and includes many interesting examples and applications. The book brings a wealth of institutional knowledge together with first-class economic analysis by some of the leading practitioners in the field. Rejan, McDermott, and Roy have written the definitive reference that students, researchers, investors, and market professionals have been waiting for.”—Francis Longstaff, Allstate Professor of Insurance and Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management “The Structured Credit Handbook is a unique blend of products and trading strategies. This is an authoritative and colorful treatment designed for investors and sales-and-trading professionals covering structured credit products. All of the key products are covered.”—Darrell Duffie, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, Stanford University “Finally, a clearly written and comprehensive road map of the world of structured credit! The Structured Credit Handbook incisively analyzes the entire spectrum of structured credit products, from single name CDS to CDOs. Well-suited for students and practitioners alike, this book provides a unique, practical framework for understanding this complex and rapidly changing field. This book is destined to become a fixture in trading rooms, investment departments, and classrooms around the world.”—Ian Lui, Chief Investment Officer and Christopher Ni, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Shin Kong Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
Product DescriptionThe Structured Credit Handbook is a comprehensive introduction to all types of credit-linked financial instruments. This book provides state-of-the-art primers on single tranche collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), credit derivatives (such as credit default swaps and swaptions), and iBoxx indexes. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, The Structured Credit Handbook covers all aspects of the synthetic arbitrage CDO market, including new instruments such as CDO2. Readers will also gain a firm understanding of the investment rationale, risks, and rewards associated with CDO investments through this valuable resource. The exploding use of credit derivatives and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) has transformed the world of credit, creating an $18 trillion market almost overnight and resulting in innumerable investment and career opportunities globally. The Structured Credit Handbook provides the reader with a comprehensive and clear roadmap to today's new credit landscape. The full spectrum of structured credit products, from single-name CDS to CDOs, is explained in a simple, clear fashion that is free from the financial jargon and mathematical complexity which characterize many other derivative texts. The handbook begins with an in-depth explanation of the building blocks of the structured credit markets, single-name default swaps and indexes, and it culminates with complex products such as credit options, synthetic tranches, CDOs based on bank loans and asset-backed securities, and CDO-squareds. Written by experienced practitioners who have participated in this market since its infancy, each of the thirteen chapters introduces and analyzes a new product and explains its practical applications. A rich set of real-life case studies illustrate the application of each product in a concrete market setting. The book may be used in a semester-long course on structured credit as part of a business or finance curriculum. Whether you are a market professional, a university student or faculty member, or simply a financially savvy layperson, look no further for an up-to-date and thorough introduction to this rapidly growing and exciting field. Dr. Arvind Rajan, Managing Director, Citigroup Global Markets, is engaged in proprietary trading of Structured Credit products, and until recently, was global head of Structured Credit Research and Strategy at Citigroup. Glen McDermott (New York, NY) is Director of Fixed Income Sales and the former head of CDO Research at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Ratul Roy is head of CDO Strategy for Citigroup Global Markets and has spent the prior nine years in structuring or analyzing CDOs and other structured credit products.
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