Building Financial Risk Management Applications with C++
Robert Brooks (Bob) is the Wallace D. Malone, Jr. Endowed Chair of Financial Management at The University of Alabama, founding partner of BlueCreek Investment Partners, LLC, a money management firm, and president of Financial Risk Management, LLC, a derivatives consulting firm (www.frmhelp.com). He is the author of approximately 70 articles appearing in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Fixed Income, and others. Further, he the co-author of An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk and Risk Management (Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Editions) with Don Chance and has authored a book titled Building Financial Derivatives Applications with C++. Bob has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and The Bond Buyer as well as testifying at a subcommittee hearing of the U. S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. and testifying at a field hearing of the SEC in Birmingham, Alabama. Bob has consulted with major public utilities, energy companies, auditing firms, corporations, investment bankers, elected municipal officials, and commercial bankers regarding managing financial risks, derivatives valuation and software development. Bob also conducts professional development seminars on various aspects of financial risk management, including energy derivatives valuation and energy risk management.