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Title: Structured Products & Hybrid Securities by Satyajit Das ISBN: 0-471-84775-5 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $110.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Not close to the best in the field
Comment: This book isn't well written, thorough or organized. It was a frustrating work. For a better explanation of structured products and credit linked notes plus wonderful product descriptions of total return swaps, credit default swaps, first to default baskets, structured equity and more, I highly recommend "Credit Derivatives and Synthetic Structures" by Tavakoli.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Overview of Structured Poducts
Comment: Had I only had this book at the beginning of my Sales career, life would have been much easier. The book is unique in many ways. First, it's the only book I know of which covers such a wide range of products. Second, product examples are often supported by money-flow-diagramms (e.g. Investor, Issuer, Swap Desk). Never seen that before. Third, termsheet-like examples are given to most of the products for better understanding. In this way, it's a book for investors/sales alike. It's simple and clear with no math at all. Level: Beginners - Advanced. The pro will miss more and up-to-date products, but how can a book provide that?

Topics coverred like: Interest rate / Currency / Commodity / Equity / Credit / Inflation / Insurance linked Notes. Taxation and Market for Structured Products.

Rating: 2
Summary: Good from far ... far from good
Comment: While it will be sufficient as a primer for entrants to the arcane world of the various branches of OTC derivatives especially in the fixed income area ...

I suspect that many topics & inferences were plugged in from the author's many other publications which had been pretty prolific & churned out every other year ...

I will only recommend it as an introductory book for the student or new professional, but probably not relevant if you are a serious (or half serious) practitioner looking to keep abreast with the competition or the academics, and hoping to find something which you already do not know nor hear about.