Practical Financial Optimization: Decision Making for Financial Engineers

Practical Financial Optimization is a comprehensive guide to optimization techniques in financial decision making. This book illuminates the relationship between theory and practice, providing the readers with solid foundational knowledge.

• Focuses on classical static mean-variance analysis and portfolio immunization, scenario-based models, multi-period dynamic portfolio optimization, and the relationships between classes of models
• Analyizes real world applications and implications for financial engineers
• Includes a list of models and a section on notations that includes a glossary of symbols and abbreviations

Author: Stavros A. Zenios
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 02/01/2008
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.61h x 7.50w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781405132015

About the Author
Stavros Zenios is Professor of Business and Public Administration at the University of Cyprus, Director of the HERMES European Center of Excellence on Computational Finance and Economics, and Senior Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center of the University of Pennsylvania. His previous books include Financial Optimization (1996); Parellel Optimization: Theory Algorithms, and Applications (1997); and Performance of Financial Institutions: Efficiency, Innovation, Regulation (2000).