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Traditional banks, investment banks, hedge funds, and all investment professionals benefit from thoroughly understanding Asset-Liability Management (ALM), Liquidity Risk, and Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP). That's what makes this book a valuable resource. Author Pooya Farahvash leverages his professional experience and expertise to clearly and thoroughly explain these topics. He begins the book with chapters covering the fundamentals of analytical finance. The next section comprehensively discusses a range of financial valuation models and methods for various types of products. Following this discussion, Asset-Liability and Liquidity Management references the fundamentals covered in the initial chapters to explain the two core pillars of ALM: economic value of equity and net interest income. Additionally, Dr. Farahvash devotes individual chapters to concepts of Liquidity Risk and FTP, explaining each thoroughly. Dr. Farahvash covers the basics of FTP, before exploring two significant approaches to FTP: the pool method and the match-maturity method, explaining how they apply to fixed-rate, floating-rate, and non-maturing products. The book also features an Appendix covering basic probability and statistics. This promotes a greater understanding of how these topics apply to the specific concepts described throughout the book. Risk managers, treasury professionals, and numerous other employees of financial institutions need to not only understand these concepts, but also appreciate why they are relevant. Asset-Liability and Liquidity Management helps by offering a clear but comprehensive introduction, allowing anyone to easily grasp what can at first seem to be intimidating concepts.