From the reviews: "Handbook of Financial Engineering is a collection of papers from various areas of the field including Portfolio Management and Trading, Risk Management, Operations Research Methods in Financial Engineering, and Mergers, Acquisitions and Credit Risk Ratings. The papers are in narrative form, discussing the main current issues in the selected areas. ... Discussions are at the introductory level, which should seem very inviting to students and readers who are new to the field and need an overview of the methods currently used." (Ita Cirovic Donev, The Mathematical Association of America, September, 2008)