Structured Products Volume 2 consists of 5 Parts and 21 Chapters covering equity derivatives (including equity swaps/options, convertible securities and equity linked notes) , commodity derivatives (including energy, metal and agricultural derivatives), credit derivatives (including credit linked notes/collateralised debt obligations ("CDOs")), new derivative markets (including inflation linked derivatives and notes, insurance derivatives, weather derivatives, property, bandwidth/telephone minutes, macro-economic index and emission/environmental derivatives ) and tax based applications of derivatives. It also covers the structure and evolution of derivative markets including electronic trading markets and the origins, evolution and prospects for derivative markets.

EQUITY LINKED STRUCTURES

1 Equity Derivatives - Equity Futures; Equity Options/Warrants & Equity Swaps

2 Convertible Securities

3 Structured Convertible Securities

4 Equity Linked Notes

5 Equity Derivatives - Investor Applications

6 Equity Capital Management - Corporate Finance Applications of Equity Derivatives

COMMODITY LINKED STRUCTURES

7 Commodity Derivatives - Commodity Futures/Options, Commodity Swaps and Commodity Linked Notes

8 Commodity Derivatives - Energy (Oil, Natural Gas and Electricity) Markets

9 Commodity Derivatives - Metal Markets

10 Commodity Derivatives - Agricultural and Other Markets

CREDIT DERVIATIVES

11 Credit Derivative Products

12 Credit Linked Notes/Collateralised Debt Obligations

13 Credit Derivatives/Default Risk - Pricing and Modelling

14 Credit Derivatives - Applications/Markets

NEW MARKETS

15 Inflation Indexed Notes and Derivatives

16 Alternative Risk Transfer/Insurance Derivatives

17 Weather Derivatives

18 New Markets - Property; Bandwidth; Macro-Economic and Environmental Derivatives

19 Tax and Structured Derivatives Transactions

EVOLUTION OF DERIVATIVES MARKETS

20 Electronic Markets and Derivatives Trading

21 Financial Derivatives - Evolution and Prospects

Satyajit Das is an international specialist in the area of financial derivatives, risk management and capital markets. Since 1994, he has been a consultant to financial institutions and corporations on derivatives and financial products and risk management issues. He presents seminars on financial derivatives/ risk management and capital markets in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

Between 1988 and 1994, Das was the Treasurer of the TNT Group, an Australian based international transport and logistics company with responsibility for the Global Treasury function, including liquidity management, corporate finance, funding/ capital markets and financial risk management. Between 1977 and 1987, he worked in banking with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Citicorp Investment Bank and Merrill Lynch Capital Markets specializing in capital markets and risk management / derivative products.

Das holds Bachelors’ degrees in Commerce (Accounting, Finance and Systems) and Law from the University of New South Wales and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management.