"Quite simply, he’s done it again. Building upon his previous writings from the fixed income markets, Beaumont has successfully applied his practical hands-on style to bring us a fresh cross-market perspective of bonds, equities, and currencies. Financial Engineering Principles now occupies that portion of my bookshelf reserved for texts with long shelf-life and little dust."
--Steve Oristaglio
Senior Managing Director, Co-head of Investments, Putnam
"This book provides a sophisticated understanding of finance, using commonsense explanations that do not depend on obscure jargon or advanced-level mathematics."
--Martin Fridson
Publisher, Leverage World
"Beaumont challenges us to rethink the standard tools that we use to analyze asset allocation and financial markets. The result of the challenge is to help us deal with financial innovation in new and interesting ways."
--Bruce Brittain
Global Relative Value Product Manager, PIMCO
About the Author
PERRY H. BEAUMONT, PhD, has served in senior finance roles for nearly twenty years, including Global Head of Strategy and Marketing and member of the Fixed Income Management Committee at AXA Investment Managers in Paris, France. Beaumont was also a managing director at Salomon Smith Barney in New York where he was chair of the Interest Rate Strategy Committee, member of the Fixed Income Management Committee, and member of the firm’s Asset Allocation Committee. Among his distinctions, Beaumont has been named a "derivatives superstar" by Global Finance magazine, and his professional contributions have been heralded by such distinguished entities as the Bank of England, the Chicago Board of Trade, and Institutional Investor publications. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is author of Fixed-Income Synthetic Assets: Packaging, Pricing, and Trading Strategies for Financial Professionals, also published by Wiley.
