The book is appropriate for university courses in either risk management or financial institutions. It is not necessary for students to take a course on options and futures markets prior to taking a course based on this book. But if they have taken such a course, some of the material in the first nine chapters does not need to be covered.

This is a book about risk management, so there is very little material on the valuation of derivatives. (This is the main focus of my other two books, Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives and Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets.) The appendices at the end of the book include material that summarizes some of the valuation key results that are important in risk management, and the DerivaGem software can be downloaded from my website.

这本书适用于风险管理或金融机构的大学课程。学生在学习基于本书的课程之前，没有必要先学习期权和期货市场的课程。但是，如果他们学过这样的课程，那么前九章中的一些内容就不需要涵盖了。

这是一本关于风险管理的书，所以关于衍生品估值的材料很少。（这是我另外两本书《期权、期货和其他衍生工具以及期货和期权市场的基本原理》的主要重点。）本书末尾的附录包括一些材料，总结了一些在风险管理中很重要的估值关键结果，并且可以从我的网站下载DerivateGem软件。