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Interesting Articles and Reports:

• Now Is the Time for Firms to Position Themselves for the End of the Economic Downturn (Larry Tabb)
• US Senator: STOP SHIRKING OVERSIGHT OF COMPLEX DERIVATIVES THAT SUNK BEAR STEARNS
• OTC Derivatives Market Statistics (BIS)
• Containing Systemic Risk: The Road to Reform (CRMPG III)
• Collateral Management - Build, Buy or Bounce?

Recommended Reading:

• Hedging Instruments & Risk Management (Cusatis, Thomas)
• Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (Hull)
• Derivatives: Models on Models (Espen Haug)
• Traders, Guns and Money (Satyajit Das)
• Implementing Credit Derivatives (Nelken)
• A Demon Of Our Own Design (Bookstaber)
• When Genius Failed (Lowenstein)
• The Black Swan: Impact of the Highly Improbable (Taleb)

On-line Resources:

• Financial Pipeline
• Derivatives Portal
• Euronext Education
• Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Education
• Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Education
• ISDA
• Financial Products Markup Language

Blogs:

• Derivatives Issues in Investment Management
• Performance Issues in Investment Management
• Hedge Fund Operations