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Principles of Financial Engineering (Academic Press Advanced Finance)
by Salih N. Neftci
from Academic Press
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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If you have one book at work, this one should be it 
I've read of few books about financial products and their application, but this one is by far the best. The author's intent is to share his knowledge, rather than show it off. This title has served as a very helpful starting point quite a few times, especially when I have to get something done in a hurry.
I bought a number of copies over the years to give them to colleagues - especially those new to the financial industry. The explanations and derivations can be followed by mortals - the author does... more info
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great resource
Does anyone know if there is an errata available for the recent second edition yet? Neftcis' website has a preprint errata from 2004.
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terrible bookbinding 
This rating is definitely not for the content of this book - the author did a superb job creating this text.
Unfortunately, my pre-ordered copy of second edition came up in a binding which teared right away and I do take a good care of my books.
No cost-cutting and financial crisis can justify using sub par glue and binding materials for a $100 book.
I am tempted to go further with analogies for the whole field of financial engineering where so many brilliant (and really working) ideas were... more info
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great book
Prof. Neftci gave one of our mandatory course - Financial Engineering, in HEC Lausanne. This book is the reference book for this course. His lecture is great, a lot of jokes and funny stories as well as insights about financial engineering. However, I find out that the book is even better than his lecture.
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