October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
829 pages
23h 51m
English
Chapter 2
Let us start with a basic classification of financial instruments. First, we differentiate between underlying assets (or securities) and derivative financial contracts. A financial security is a legal claim to some future benefit. Bonds, bank deposits, common stocks, and the like are all examples of financial securities. In contrast, a general financial contract links nominally two (or more) parties. Such a contract specifies conditions under which payments or payoffs are to be made between the parties. The main example is derivative contracts whose payoff depends on the value of another financial variable such as price ...
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