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November 11th 2003 saw a landmark event take place in London. As the first conference designed for quants by quants the Quantitative Finance Review 2003, moved away from the anonymous bazaars that have become the norm, and instead delivered valuable information to market practitioners with the greatest interest. The roster of speakers was phenomenal, ranging from founding fathers to bright young things, discussing the latest developments, with a specific emphasis on the burgeoning field of credit derivatives. You really had to be there. Until now, at least. The Best of Wilmott 1: Including the latest research from Quantitative Finance Review 2003 contains these first-class articles, originally presented at the QFR 2003, along with a collection of selected technical papers from Wilmott magazine. In publishing this book we hope to share some of the great insights that, until now, only delegates at QFR 2003 were privy to, and give you some idea why Wilmott magazine is the most talked about periodical in the market. Including articles from luminaries such as Ed Thorp, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Philipp Schoenbucher, Pat Hagan, Ephraim Clark, Marc Potters, Peter Jaeckel and Paul Wilmott, this collection is a must for anyone working in the field of quantitative finance. The articles cover a wide range of topics: * Psychology in Financial Markets * Measuring Country Risk as Implied Volatility * The Equity-to-Credit Problem * Introducing Variety in Risk Management * The Art and Science of Curve Building * Next Generation Models for Convertible Bonds with Credit Risk * Stochastic Volatility and Mean-variance Analysis * Cliquet Options and Volatility Models And as they say at the end of (most) Bond movies The Best of Wilmott... will return on an annual basis.

November 11th 2003 saw a landmark event take place in London. Asthe first conference designed for quants by quants the QuantitativeFinance Review 2003, moved away from the anonymous bazaars thathave become the norm, and instead delivered valuable information tomarket practitioners with the greatest interest. The roster ofspeakers was phenomenal, ranging from founding fathers to brightyoung things, discussing the latest developments, with a specificemphasis on the burgeoning field of credit derivatives. You reallyhad to be there. Until now, at least.The Best of Wilmott 1: Including the latest research fromQuantitative Finance Review 2003 contains these first-classarticles, originally presented at the QFR 2003, along with acollection of selected technical papers from Wilmott magazine. Inpublishing this book we hope to share some of the great insightsthat, until now, only delegates at QFR 2003 were privy to, and giveyou some idea why Wilmott magazine is the most talked aboutperiodical in the market.Including articles from luminaries such as Ed Thorp, Jean-PhilippeBouchaud, Philipp Schoenbucher, Pat Hagan, Ephraim Clark, MarcPotters, Peter Jaeckel and Paul Wilmott, this collection is a mustfor anyone working in the field of quantitative finance. Thearticles cover a wide range of topics:* Psychology in Financial Markets* Measuring Country Risk as Implied Volatility* The Equity-to-Credit Problem* Introducing Variety in Risk Management* The Art and Science of Curve Building* Next Generation Models for Convertible Bonds with CreditRisk* Stochastic Volatility and Mean-variance Analysis* Cliquet Options and Volatility ModelsAnd as they say at the end of (most) Bond movies The Best ofWilmott... will return on an annual basis.

Introduction (Paul Wilmott).I. Education in Quantitative Finance (Riaz Ahmad).II. FinancialCAD (Owen Walsh).III, Quantitative Finance Review 2003 (Dan Tudball).Chapter 1: Rewind (Dan Tudball)Chapter 2: In for the Count (Dan Tudball).Chapter 3: A Perspective on Quantitative Finance: Models forBeating the Market (Ed Thorp).Chapter 4: Psychology in Financial Markets (HenriëttePrast).Chapter 5: Credit Risk Appraisal: From the Firm StructuralApproach to Modern Probabilistic Methodologies (Hugues E. PirotteSpéder).Chapter 6: Modelling and Measuring Sovereign Credit Risk(Ephraim Clark).Chapter 7: The Equity-to-credit Problem (or the Story ofCalibration, Co-calibration and Re-calibration) (Elie Ayache).Chapter 8: Measuring Country Risk as Implied Volatility (EphraimClark).Chapter 9: Next Generation Models for Convertible Bonds withCredit Risk (E. Ayache, P. A. Forsyth and K. R. Vetzal).Chapter 10: First to Default Swaps (Antony Penaud and JamesSelfe).Chapter 11: Taken to the Limit: Simple and Not-so-simple LoanLoss Distributions (Philipp J. Schönbucher)Chapter 12: Sovereign Debt Default Risk: Quantifying the(Un)Willingness to Pay (Ephraim Clark).Chapter 13: Chord of Association (Aaron Brown).Chapter 14: Introducing Variety in Risk Management (FabrizioLillo, Rosario N. Mantegna, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and MarcPotters).Chapter 15: Alternative Large Risks Hedging Strategies forOptions (F. Selmi and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud).Chapter 16: On Exercising American Options: The Risk of MakingMore Money than You Expected (Hyungsok Ahn and Paul Wilmott).Chapter 17: Phi-alpha Optimal Portfolios and Extreme RiskManagement (R. Douglas Martin, Svetlozar (Zari) Rachev, andFrederic Siboulet).Chapter 18: Managing Smile Risk (Patrick S. Hagan, Deep KumarAndrew S. Lesniewski and Diana E. Woodward).Chapter 19: Adjusters: Turning Good Prices into Great Prices(Patrick S. Hagan).Chapter 20: Convexity Conundrums: Pricing CMS Swaps, Caps, andFloors (Patrick S. Hagan).Chapter 21: Mind the Cap (Peter Jäckel).Chapter 22: The Art and Science of Curve Building (OwenWalsh).Chapter 23: Stochastic Volatility Models: Past, Present andFuture (Peter Jäckel).Chapter 24: Cliquet Options and Volatility Models (PaulWilmott).Chapter 25: Long Memory and Regime Shifts in Asset Volatility(Jonathan Kinlay).Chapter 26: Heston's Stochastic Volatility Model:Implementation, Calibration and Some Extensions (Sergei Mikhailovand Ulrich Nögel).Chapter 27: Forward-start Options in Stochastic VolatilityModels (Vladimir Lucic).Chapter 28: Stochastic Volatility and Mean-variance Analysis(Hyungsok Ahn and Paul Wilmott).Index.