Our list of some of the best Financial Engineering books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- A Primer For The Mathematics Of Financial Engineering, Second Edition (Financial Engineering Advanced Background Series) (2011)
- Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series) (2010)
- A Linear Algebra Primer for Financial Engineering: Covariance Matrices, Eigenvectors, OLS, and more (Financial Engineering Advanced Background Series) (2014)
- Practical Methods of Financial Engineering and Risk Management: Tools for Modern Financial Professionals (2014)
- Solutions Manual – A Primer For The Mathematics Of Financial Engineering, Second Edition (2011)
- Solutions Manual – A Linear Algebra Primer for Financial Engineering (Financial Engineering Advanced Background Series) (Volume 4) (2016)
- An Introduction to Quantitative Finance (2013)
- Algorithmic Trading with Interactive Brokers (Python and C++) (2019)
- Quantitative Financial Analytics: The Path To Investment Profits (2017)
- Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering: with R examples (Springer Texts in Statistics) (2016)
- Clinical Engineering Financial Management and Benchmarking: Essential tools to manage finances and remain competitive for clinical engineering/healthcare technology management professionals (2018)
- Financial Engineering: Derivatives and Risk Management (2001)
- Machine Learning For Financial Engineering (2012)
A Primer For The Mathematics Of Financial Engineering, Second Edition (Financial Engineering Advanced Background Series) (2011)
for “A Primer for the Mathematics of Financial Engineering”, First Edition: “One of the hottest degrees on today’s campus is a Masters in Financial Engineering.
Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series) (2010)
As with the first edition, Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering combines financial motivation with mathematical style.
A Linear Algebra Primer for Financial Engineering: Covariance Matrices, Eigenvectors, OLS, and more (Financial Engineering Advanced Background Series) (2014)
This book covers linear algebra methods for financial engineering applications from a numerical point of view. The book contains many such applications, as well as pseudocodes, numerical examples, and questions often asked in interviews for quantitative positions.
Practical Methods of Financial Engineering and Risk Management: Tools for Modern Financial Professionals (2014)
Risk control, capital allocation, and realistic derivative pricing and hedging are critical concerns for major financial institutions and individual traders alike.
Solutions Manual – A Primer For The Mathematics Of Financial Engineering, Second Edition (2011)
for “A Primer for the Mathematics of Financial Engineering”, First Edition: “One of the hottest degrees on today’s campus is a Masters in Financial Engineering.
Solutions Manual – A Linear Algebra Primer for Financial Engineering (Financial Engineering Advanced Background Series) (Volume 4) (2016)
Every exercise from the book “A Linear Algebra Primer for Financial Engineering“ is solved in detail in the Solutions Manual. The addition of this Solutions Manual offers the reader the opportunity of rigorous self-study of the linear algebra concepts presented in the NLA Primer, and of achieving a deeper understanding of the financial engineering applications therein.
An Introduction to Quantitative Finance (2013)
The worlds of Wall Street and The City have always held a certain allure, but in recent years have left an indelible mark on the wider public consciousness and there has been a need to become more financially literate. The quantitative nature of complex financial transactions makes them a fascinating subject area for mathematicians of all types, whether for general interest or because of the enormous monetary rewards on offer.
Algorithmic Trading with Interactive Brokers (Python and C++) (2019)
Through Interactive Brokers, software developers can write applications that read financial data, scan for contracts, and submit orders automatically. Individuals can now take advantage of the same high-speed decision making and order placement that professional trading firms use.This book walks through the process of developing applications based on IB’s Trader Workstation (TWS) programming interface.
Quantitative Financial Analytics: The Path To Investment Profits (2017)
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the important aspects of investment theory, security analysis, and portfolio selection, with a quantitative emphasis not to be found in most other investment texts.
Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering: with R examples (Springer Texts in Statistics) (2016)
The new edition of this influential textbook, geared towards graduate or advanced undergraduate students, teaches the statistics necessary for financial engineering. In doing so, it illustrates concepts using financial markets and economic data, R Labs with real-data exercises, and graphical and analytic methods for modeling and diagnosing modeling errors.
Clinical Engineering Financial Management and Benchmarking: Essential tools to manage finances and remain competitive for clinical engineering/healthcare technology management professionals (2018)
This book provides the fundamental concepts and tools needed by Clinical Engineering (CE), also known as Health Technology Management (HTM), managers to properly manage their financial resources, as well as to prove to their senior leaders that they are comparing (benchmarking) well against their peers.
Financial Engineering: Derivatives and Risk Management (2001)
This text provides a thorough treatment of futures, ‘plain vanilla’ options and swaps as well as the use of exotic derivatives and interest rate options for speculation and hedging. Pricing of options using numerical methods such as lattices (BOPM), Mone Carlo simulation and finite difference methods, in additon to solutions using continuous time mathematics, are also covered.
Machine Learning For Financial Engineering (2012)
This volume investigates algorithmic methods based on machine learning in order to design sequential investment strategies for financial markets.
Best Financial Engineering Books Worth Your Attention
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Employee Stock Options: Exercise Timing, Hedging, and Valuation
Author(s): Tim Leung
ID: 3061283, Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co, Year: 2021, Size: 12 Mb, Format: pdf
Quantitative Management of Bond Portfolios
Author(s): Lev Dynkin, Anthony Gould, Jay Hyman, Vadim Konstantinovsky, Bruce Phelps
ID: 2536330, Publisher: Princeton University Press, Year: 2020, Size: 6 Mb, Format: pdf
Univariate Stable Distributions: Models for Heavy Tailed Data
Author(s): John P. Nolan
ID: 2861601, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2020, Size: 10 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are truly best-sellers according to Washington Post, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.