"In a period in which there is considerable confusion about ‘what the market has to say’ this work is a timely, comprehensive, up-to-date and lucid treatment of all the concepts and techniques needed for marking assets and liabilities to market across all financial service disciplines. With its unique all-inclusive scope it is sure to become a standard reference for bankers, insurers, fund managers and academics in finance."
—Professor Michael Dempster, Centre for Financial Research Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge

"Malcolm Kemp has written a very timely book on market-consistent valuation and model calibration. Given the recent market developments and the upcoming changes in regulation in the EU (Solvency II), the issue of market-consistent valuation has become a very hot topic. Kemp not only gives a review of the relevant literature and offers in-depth discussion of all the relevant issues surrounding market-consistent model calibration, but also offers a practioner's perspective. I feel this gives the book great added value."
—Antoon Pelsser, Professor of Actuarial Science, University of Amsterdam

Achieving market consistency can be challenging, even for the most established finance practitioners. In Market Consistency: Model Calibration in Imperfect Markets, leading expert Malcolm Kemp shows readers how they can best incorporate market consistency across all disciplines. Building on the author's experience as a practitioner, writer and speaker on the topic, the book explores how risk management and related disciplines might develop as fair valuation principles become more entrenched in finance and regulatory practice.

This is the only text that clearly illustrates how to calibrate risk, pricing and portfolio construction models to a market consistent level, carefully explaining in a logical sequence when and how market consistency should be used, what it means for different financial disciplines and how it can be achieved for both liquid and illiquid positions. It explains why market consistency is intrinsically difficult to achieve with certainty in some types of activities, including computation of hedging parameters, and provides solutions to even the most complex problems.

The book also shows how to best mark-to-market illiquid assets and liabilities and to incorporate these valuations into solvency and other types of financial analysis; it indicates how to define and identify risk-free interest rates, even when the creditworthiness of governments is no longer undoubted; and it explores when practitioners should focus most on market consistency and when their clients or employers might have less desire for such an emphasis.

Finally, the book analyses the intrinsic role of regulation and risk management within different parts of the financial services industry, identifying how and why market consistency is key to these topics, and highlights why ideal regulatory solvency approaches for long term investors like insurers and pension funds may not be the same as for other financial market participants such as banks and asset managers.