Brazilian Market Portfolio


Book Description

In recent years, Brazil has achieved substantial progress in capital market development by building a diversified investor base and expanding the menu of available financial instruments. In this context, we evaluated the invested Brazilian market portfolio for a period spanning 2005–15. This is a portfolio of all assets proportionally weighted by their market capitalization, and it is divided in eight broad categories: government bonds, equities, bank funding bonds, corporate bonds, real-estate, agribusiness, private-equity, and credit bonds. While the paper focuses on stylized facts related to market size, composition weighting and changes over time, the estimated market portfolio contains important information for policy makers and market participants alike.




Brazilian Market Portfolio


Book Description

In recent years, Brazil has achieved substantial progress in capital market development by building a diversified investor base and expanding the menu of available financial instruments. In this context, we evaluated the invested Brazilian market portfolio for a period spanning 2005–15. This is a portfolio of all assets proportionally weighted by their market capitalization, and it is divided in eight broad categories: government bonds, equities, bank funding bonds, corporate bonds, real-estate, agribusiness, private-equity, and credit bonds. While the paper focuses on stylized facts related to market size, composition weighting and changes over time, the estimated market portfolio contains important information for policy makers and market participants alike.




Brazilian Derivatives and Securities


Book Description

The Brazilian financial markets operate in a very different way to G7 markets. Key differences include onshore and offshore markets, exponential rates, business days day-counts, and price formation from the futures markets (instead of the cash markets). This book provides a quantitative, applied guide to the offshore and onshore Brazilian markets, with a focus on the financial instruments unique to the region. It offers a comprehensive introduction to the key financial 'archaeology' in the Brazil context, exploring interest rates, FX and inflation and key differences from G7 market finance. It explores the core industry investment banking business in detail, from FX to interest rates and cash and inflation. Finally it introduces the region's unique financial instruments, as well as their pricing and risk management needs. Covering both introductory and complex topics, this book provides existing practitioners in Brazil, as well as those interested in becoming involved in these markets, everything they need to understand the market dynamics, risks, pricing and calibration of curves for all products currently available.




Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management


Book Description

Vol 6 of Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management aims to advance knowledge of the governance and management of corporate environmental impacts and the accounting for these.




Global Instability


Book Description

In Global Instability , internationally renowned contributors examine the key problems besetting the world economy in the era of globalisation and outline possible solutions. They reject the current orthodoxy in mainstream economics, challenging the fatalistic belief that the new globalised economy resists any change of course. The book reviews · international economic institutions, · the linked crises which recently hit Asian economies · the implications of globalisation, the role of multinational investment, the IMF and the World Bank. Global Instability is a comprehensive and much-needed analysis of the contemporary economy written by leading authorities in the field, and will be vital reading for anyone in management, business, or economics.




International Business Transactions with Brazil


Book Description

This collection of essays is a project of the Brazilian Institute of Business Law (IBRADEMP) whose purpose is to expand and discuss technical subjects related to Brazilian corporate law, its evolution in Brazil and the repercussions abroad. International Business Transactions with Brazil, written by highly experienced experts from both Brazil and the United States, covers most of the topics that a business lawyer in the United States, Europe, or Asia might expect to possibly encounter in his or her representation of international companies seeking to do business in Brazil. This volume is designed for business lawyers, business executives, investment bankers, and international investors seeking technical knowledge of the current state of the art in many aspects of Brazilian law and finance. This volume is required reading for anyone seeking to assist their clients in Brazilian business transactions.




Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning -- IDEAL 2012


Book Description

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2012, held in Natal, Brazil, in August 2012. The 100 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 200 submissions for inclusion in the book and present the latest theoretical advances and real-world applications in computational intelligence.




Economics of Emerging Markets


Book Description

This book presents recent significant research dealing the economics of emerging markets. The term emerging markets is commonly used to describe business and market activity in industrialising or emerging regions of the world. The term is sometimes loosely used as a replacement for emerging economies, but really signifies a business phenomenon that is not fully described by or constrained to geography or economic strength; such countries are considered to be in a transitional phase between developing and developed status. Examples of emerging markets include China, India, Mexico, Brazil, much of Southeast Asia, countries in Eastern Europe, parts of Africa and Latin America. An emerging market is sometimes defined as "a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the markets."




The fixed income market in Brazil -


Book Description

Since the implementation of the Real Plan, the national fixed income market has undergone successive changes, influenced by internal and external economic crises. Few are the works that address the universe of fixed income and linear fixed income derivatives in Brazil, dealing with topics such as pricing, risk calculation, performance and hedging. In order to fill this gap, the work The Fixed Income in Brazil - Concepts, pricing and risk consolidates, in an organized way and at an increasing level of complexity, several themes related to this topic, mixing theory and practice. The reader will learn to price the main fixed-income instruments used in Brazil, such as Brazilian Treasury bonds, certificate of deposits, debentures (local corporate bonds) and interest rate derivatives. In addition to pricing techniques, this book deals, in depth, with themes such as: • Yield curve • Bootstrapping • Credit spread • Return calculation • Brazilian local debt securities • Brazilian global debt securities • Brazilian local linear derivatives as futures and swaps • Libor versus Fixed rate swaps • Hedge and immunization • Risk measurement This book is mostly aimed at professionals working in both the financial market and academia, who want to deepen their knowledge on fixed income markets in Brazil.