Over the past decade there has been a great escalation in thesophistication of the
financial markets and technology and as a result many newderivatives products have
been developed.

Structured Products offers practical details on the mainstructured products developed over the last ten years. The booklooks in detail at the risks, valuation and key elements of eachstructured product in turn. It explains the basic principles andunderlying philosophies behind the concept giving investors athrough understanding of each product in a conceptual and practicalway.

ROBERTO KNOP is deputy manager of market risk at Banco Santander Central Hispano where he is responsible for the methodology and quantitative team. He has over ten years experience of derivatives pricing, market risk measurement and also has considerable experience of training others in derivatives pricing and market risk.