Money & Risk Management, part 4
Satyajit Das. The Swaps & Financial Derivatives Library:Products, Pricing, Applications and Risk Management3rd Edition Revised(Boxed Set) (Wiley Finance)
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons, LtdYear:2005
Mikkel Rasmussen. Quantitative Portfolio Optimisation, Asset Allocation and Risk Management (Finance and Capital Markets)
Publisher:Year:2003
Louis Esch. Asset & Risk Management
Publisher:Year:2005
Book DescriptionThe aim of this book is to study three essential components of modern finance – Risk Management, Asset Management and Asset and Liability Management, as well as the links that bind them together. It is divided into five parts: Part I sets out the financial and regulatory contexts that explain the rapid development of these three areas during the last few years and shows the ways in which the Risk Management function has developed recently in financial institutions. Part II is dedicated to the underlying theories of Asset Management and deals in depth with evaluation of financial assets and with theories relating to equities, bonds and options. Part III deals with a central theory of Risk Management, the general theory of Value at Risk or VaR, its estimation techniques and the setting up of the methodology. Part IV is the point at which Asset Management and Risk Management meet. It deals with Portfolio Risk...
Institute of Management and Administrati. Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices : The Best Ways for a Financial Manager to Save Money (Wiley Best Practices)
Publisher:Year:2005
Book DescriptionCost Reduction and Control Best Practices provides financial manages with no-nonsense, balanced, and practical strategies that are being targeted and used nationwide for controlling costs by thousands of companies in areas such as human resources, compensation, benefits, purchasing, outsourcing, use of consultants, taxes, and exports. These best practices are based on the trenches experience, research, proprietary databases, and consultants from the Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) and other leading experts in their fields. * Provides best practices and techniques for controlling costs within a company * New chapters focus on outsourcing costs, downsizing, consultants' costs, and business tax costs * Provides the latest strategies companies re using to control costs
Tony Merna. Corporate Risk Management : An Organisational Perspective
Publisher:Year:2005
Book DescriptionCorporate Risk Management analyses, compares and contrasts tools and techniques used in risk management at corporate, strategic business and project level and develops a risk management mechanism for the sequencing of risk assessment through corporate, strategic and project stages of an investment in order to meet the requirements of the 1999 Turnbull report. By classifying and categorising risk within these levels, readers will learn how to drill down and roll-up to any level of the organisational structure, establish the risks that each project is most sensitive to, and implement the appropriate risk response strategy - to the benefit of all stakeholders.
Ragnar E. Lofstedt. Risk Management in Post-Trust Society
Publisher:Year:2005
Book Description Risk communication helps companies, governments and institutions minimize disputes, resolve issues, and anticipate problems before they result in an irreversible breakdown in communications. Most policy makers still use outdatedmethods--developed at a time before health scares like BSE, genetically modified organisms and dioxin in Belgian chicken feed eroded public confidence in industry and government--to communicate policies and achieve their objectives. Good risk communication is still possible, however. In this book, through the use of a host of case studies from four countries, the author identifies a series of methods that are set to work in a post-trust society.
Karen A. Horcher. Essentials of Financial Risk Management (Essentials Series)
Publisher:Year:2005
Book DescriptionA concise introduction to financial risk management strategies, policies, and techniques This ideal guide for business professionals focuses on strategic and management issues associated with financial risk. Essentials of FinancialRisk Management identifies risk-mitigation policies and strategies; suggestions for determining an organization's risk tolerance; and sources of risk associated with currency exchange rates, interest rates, credit exposure, commodity prices, and other related events. Examples illustrate risk scenarios and offer tips on an array of management alternatives, including changes in the way business is conducted and hedging strategies involving derivatives.Download DescriptionA concise introduction to financialrisk management strategies, policies, and techniques This ideal guide for business professionals focuses on strategic and management issues associated with financial risk. Essentials of Financial Risk Management identifies...
B.S., Janice Aldrow. The Art of Money Management : for a Simple Life
Publisher:Year:2005
Book Description The Art of Money Management is a spiritually-based, practical tool for managing day-to-day finances, that includes short stories of real life experiences that will add humor and wisdom to the reality of the choices we make regarding our financial decisions. The reader will develop the tools to establish more long-term goals, and learn techniques that will keep the individual debt-free by establishing the habit of saving for emergencies, and for long-term goals. The Art of Money Management is a financial workbook designed for the individual in a state of life transition that demands the establishment of new goals, as well as the beginner, gaining the respect that comes in the form of a paycheck. The story of my son, Lyon, and his dog ?Einstein?, gives a true life example of the rewards that came from a heartfelt desire to be responsible for that which he desired the most. The experience of taking care of his own pet empowered Lyon, and...
Economics and Ecological Risk Assessment: Applications to Watershed Management (Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment)
Publisher:Year:2004
Book DescriptionWith contributions from economists, ecologists, and government agency professionals, this book provides a multidisciplinary approach to environmental decision making at a watershed level. It integrates ecological risk assessment (ERA) andeconomic analysis to improve environmental management in a diversity of watersheds. It includes different points of view concerning the extent to which each study achieves an ideal framework for the integration of ERA and economic analysis. The practicalfocus on real-world decisions includes the effects of urban development, mining, and water withdrawal for agriculture and also evaluates the socioeconomic and institutional dimensions of decision making.
E.D. Solojentsev. Scenario Logic and Probabilistic Management of Risk in Business and Engineering (Applied Optimization)
Publisher:Year:2004
Book DescriptionIn this volume the methodological aspects of the scenario logic and probabilistic (LP) non-success risk management are considered. The theoretical bases of scenario non-success risk LP-management in business and engineering are also stated. Methods and algorithms for the scenario risk LP-management in problems of classification, investment and effectiveness are described. Risk LP- models and results of numerical investigations for credit risks, risk of frauds, security portfolio risk, risk of quality, accuracy, and risk in multi-stage systems reliability are given. In addition, a rather large number of new problems of estimation, analysis and management of risk are considered. Software for risk problems based on LP-methods, LP-theory, andGIE is described too.
World Bank. Household Risk Management And Social Protection In Chile (World Bank Country Study)
Publisher:Year:2004
Book DescriptionHousehold Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank?s work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile takes a critical look at the country's social protection "system" ? broadly defined to include policy interventions, public institutions, and the regulation of private institutions that lower the welfare costs of adverse shocks to income from job loss and extended unemployment, health episodes, old age, and life-time poverty ? to determine if a system exists or simply a set of loosely coordinated programs. The study also assesses whether households are provided with appropriate tools to mitigate risks to their income, identifying gaps in coverage and where instruments...
L. Gajek. Financial Risk Management for Pension Plans
Publisher:Year:2005
Book DescriptionThis book is devoted to modern methodologies of financial risk management of pension plans, mostly defined benefit plans. The reader is expected to know basic probability theory and mathematical analysis, while all required concepts in financial and actuarial mathematics are developed in the text. The book outlines basic actuarial valuation concepts and then presents actuarial funding and valuation methods for defined benefit plans, and discusses their relationship to other types of pension plans. Optimal funding methodologies are developed in simple deterministic and in stochastic cases. The question of measurement of rate of return of a fund is analyzed in detail, pointing out how the choice of a market index affects it. The problem of stability of the value of liabilities is analyzed as well. Modern investment theory, including equilibrium and arbitrage models, is used to discuss ways to value both marketable and non-marketable assets, as well as liabilities. All...
From Disaster Response to Risk Management : Australia's National Drought Policy (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research)
Publisher:Year:2005
Book DescriptionIn 1992 Australia’s Commonwealth and State governments announced the introduction of a National Drought Policy adopting an innovative risk management approach, which received broad support from Australia’s major political parties and the policy community. This trail-blazing attempt and the experiences with the development and implementation of this policy over the past decade have intrigued the international scientific and policy communities. The present book comprises an academically focused collection of papers, which the Editors hope will provide others moving in a similar direction with the benefit of experience. The work highlights the successes and challenges of a move from disaster to risk management in responding to drought. As such it will be a valuable and useful addition to the international literature on drought preparedness and response.
Andrew Kimber. Credit Risk: From Transaction to Portfolio Management (Securities Institute Global Capital Markets)
Publisher:Year:2003
Book Description'Credit Risk: from transaction to portfolio management' provides high level, focused analysis of the nature of credit risk in investment bank portfolio management. Written by experienced international practitioners, it offers in-depth information and advice that will help all those charged with managing credit risk at the sharp end. Credit Risk Management strives to protect the capital and reputation of the bank while preserving its franchise and optimising long-term profitability. These goals are achieved by: * Recommending suitable credit policies and guidelines * Performing due diligence on the banks' customers * Incorporating both quanitative and qualitative analysis to balance risk and return * Providing creative advice to facilitate client transactions * Coordinating legal and operational issues * Embracing technological change to enhance bank effectiveness 'Credit Risk' provides financial institutions and their staff with...
Maxx Dilley. Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis (Disaster Risk Management)
Publisher:Year:2005
Book DescriptionEarthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year around the world. Many billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, emergency loans, and development aid are expended annually. Yet efforts to reduce the risks of natural hazards remain largely uncoordinated across different hazard types and do not necessarily focus on areas at highest risk of disaster. Natural Disaster Hotspots presents a global view of major natural disaster risk hotspots ?V areas at relatively high risk of loss from one or more natural hazards. It summarizes the results of an interdisciplinary analysis of the location and characteristics of hotspots for six natural hazards ?V earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, drought, and cyclones. Data on these hazards are combined with state-of-the-art data on the subnational distribution of population and...
Lars Jaeger. The New Generation of Risk Management for Hedge Funds and Private Equity Investments
Publisher:Euromoney Institutional Investor PLCYear:2004
The New Generation of Risk Management for Hedge Funds and Private Equity Investments has been designed to address issues that raise disquiet among investors in alternative investments. This book describes and evaluates the unique risks affecting individual hedge fund strategies, private equity investments and generic risks of types of alternative investment strategies. Ensuring that both institutional investors and private investors have the information they need to be able to evaluate their investment advice and effectively allocate and manage their alternative investment strategies.
Daniela Colombini. Risk Assessment and Management of Repetitive Movements and Exertions of Upper Limbs: Job Analysis, Ocra Risk Indicies, Prevention Strategies and Design Principles
Publisher:Elsevier ScienceYear:2002
In industrialised countries, musculo-skeletrical disorders of the upper limbs represent one of the commonest work-related diseases. All working activities habitually requiring repetitive upper limb movements and exertions represent a potential risk for these disorders under certain conditions. This practical manual provides a clear and detailed solution to the problem of assessing and consequently managing these risks in conformity with European Union legislation covering the safety and protection of workers' health. The book contains many tables, diagrams and schedules, enhancing its practical value. The methods it proposes for analyzing and designing or redesigning jobs and tasks do not require sophisticated equipment and are largely based on situations encountered in large manufacturing factories. Since risk analysis also concerns how jobs and tasks are organized, many concepts and terms are defined that prevention experts can share with those responsible for planning and...
Lech Janczewski. Internet and Intranet Security Management: Risks and Solutions
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In the last 12 years we have observed amazing growth of electronic communication. From typical local networks through country-wide systems and business-based distributed processing, we have witnessed widespread implementation of computer-controlled transmissions encompassing almost every aspect of our business and private lives. Internet and Intranet Security Management: Risks and Solutions addresses issues of information security from the managerial, global point of view. The global approach allows us to concentrate on issues that could be influenced by activities happening on opposite sides of the earth.
Tony Moynihan. Coping with IS/IT Risk Management: The Recipes of Experienced Project Managers (Practitioner Series)
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This is a book in which successful, experienced IT solutions providers talk about their actual practical experiences in IT risk management. Tony Moynihan has asked successful IS/IT project managers to compare and contrast their recent projects in terms of the various important and different factors they had to deal with in each project. Coping with IS/IT Risk Management discusses how to: * handle unrealistic client expectations * decide on the 'ownership' of a project * set targets that work in practice.The result is a very well-written, interesting book, which will be enormously helpful to any professional needing to cope with the many and varied problems which can be encountered in IS/IT risk management. About the Author: Tony Moynihan is a Professor at the School of Computer Applications at Dublin City University, researching in the field of software engineering and software project risk-analysis.
Stephen Grey. Practical Risk Assessment for Project Management
Publisher:WileyYear:1995
In the estimating, planning and management of any project, large or small, an understanding of the impact of risk is critical. This book explains how the growing number of people choosing to or forced to organise their work as projects can make realistic assessments of the uncertainty affecting costs, timescale and revenue, before commitments are made. A clear analysis of the role of uncertainty is combined in this concise and practical handbook with simple, cost-effective techniques for measuring and modelling the overall risk to a project's budget and schedule. There is advice and help here for the whole project team, including project managers; bid managers; project sales professionals; planners; estimators; managers running a project-based business; and consultants and auditors advising a projects business. Drawn from the author's extensive experience on projects ranging in scale from a few man-months to hundreds of man-years, the book will beelevant to anyone involved in a...
Tom Schwartz. Easy Ways to Save and Manage Money
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The author has spent a lifetime observing both the wise and unwise ways people manage their money. Here is a book that relays a vital message - how to save money, when to spend it and how to live a great life by living with a budget and a plan.
Michel A. Bell. Managing God's Money-The Basics, Workbook: Become a Good Manager of God's Resources
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Jesus Christ is the Creator of the universe and owns everything! Consequently, we are managers of all resources we acquire throughout life?including money ?and we must act accordingly. This workbook is a companion to Michel (Mike)Bell's previous publication, Managing God's Money?The Basics, in which he provides a simple framework and useful, proven techniques for managing money effectively. The workbook was designed to facilitate individual and group study of key principles such as goal setting, planning, budgeting, borrowing and giving. It will allow individuals to drill deeper in the Bible to understand financial concepts more fully. Questions shown throughout will require thoughtful reflection and will help the reader unearth several key truths from the Bible about the effective use of resources. Additionally, the reader will get a good understanding of basic financial concepts while learning important spending tips.
Jack L. Mumme. Risk Management for Dentists
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George Washington's dentures were built of hippopotamus tusk, gold, elephant ivory, and human teeth, by John Greenwood. Though he was never pleased, George never sued John. Alas, that was 200 years ago. Today, 98% of the American public suffers from dental disease and 6,000,000 teeth are removed annually. Lots and lots of lawsuits just waiting to be filed! If Dr. N.L. Schafler can sell a $325, three-volume set of books (1040 pages in total) telling attorneys how to prepare dental malpractice cases, you deserve at least a shorter, definitive, step-by-step $49 book called RISK MANAGEMENT FOR DENTISTS that tells you (1) how to avoid being sued and (2) what to do if you are! Who better to write it than Jack Mumme, whose company over a 23-year period specialized in claim and risk management, handling 17,250+ medical and dental malpractice claims and representing 200 hospitals nationwide, plus 1100 emergency room physicians and 550 cosmetic surgeons and dentists, all...
Alexander T. Wells, Bruce D. Chadbourne. Introduction to Aviation Insurance and Risk Management, Second Edition
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Revisions and additions make the second edition an even better teaching and learning tool of the basic principles of insurance and risk with their special application to the aviation industry. A foundation of general knowledge is provided in a subject matter that plays a significant role in any aviation-related business. A number of the chapters have been completely updated to reflect the many industry, market, and legislative changes during the 1900s. The chapter on hull and liability contracts includes "Insurance Considerations for Business Aircraft Owners." This new section covers insurance requirements for companies operating aircraft under various arrangements including joint ownership, interchange agreement, time-sharing agreement, exclusive dry lease, management company, and fractional ownership. Appendixes include current aviation policies, endorsements, and applications as well as self-tests. College students, corporate pilots or fixed base operators, and individuals in...
William J. Palmer, James M. Maloney, John L. Heffron. Construction Insurance, Bonding, and Risk Management
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Professional PublishingYear:1996
Don't let a construction lawsuit wipe you out. More and more construction contractors are getting sued these days. Make sure you protect yourself against costly litigation with Construction Insurance, Bonding and Risk Management edited by William J. Palmer, James Maloney, and John L. Heffron. Written in jargon-free language, this quick-and-easy resource will help you identify and manage risk in every phase of construction--from bidding on the job to driving home the final nail. You get the know-how you need to make sense of today's confusing array of insurance and bonds and to select the best coverage for your general business operations, individual contracts, job bidding and more.
Judy Lawrence. The Budget Kit : The Common Cents Money Management Workbook
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Get your spending under control and create a budget that will get you on the road to financial freedom. In an age of information overload, many simply don't have the time, knowledge or organizational skills to create a simple, functional system for managing personal finances. Now in its fourth edition, The Budget Kit: The Common Cents Money Management Workbook is a best-selling classic that has helped hundreds of thousands of people across America develop effective budgets and gain financialfreedom. Even if you are using a financial software program, you will find the concepts in The Budget Kit to be essential to your understanding of budgeting. In the completely revised and updated fourth edition, Lawrence tackles the unique challenges faced in the digital society in which we live. The increased use of debit cards, automatic withdrawals, direct paycheck deposits and online bill payment systems have distanced us from our money like never before. Lawrence guides you...
Peter J. Sander, Peter Sander. The Everything Personal Finance Book: Manage, Budget, Save, and Invest Your Money Wisely (Everything Series)
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If you want to make money?and protect it?you have to think smart money management. Whether you?re looking to manage your finances for the short or long term, The Everything® Personal Finance Book is the perfect handbook to help you save, budget, and invest your money. Covering everything from weekly budgeting to 401(k) planning, The Everything® Personal Finance Book provides practical information for achieving the best financial results possible. Packed with helpful suggestions and professional advice, The Everything® Personal Finance Book helps you maximize your income during the prosperous times and safeguard your assets so that you can be prepared for the worst. The Everything® Personal Finance Book features authoritative information on how to: ·Choose the best investing options ·Consolidate and reduce debt ·Plan for retirement ·Ensure financial security ·Save money through tax strategies ...
Peter E. Tarlow. Event Risk Management and Safety
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The collapse of the bonfire tower at Texas A&M, a bomb at the Atlanta Olympics, a food poisoning outbreak at a company picnic?each year, thousands of accidents resulting in injury, death, and significant financial loss occur at events. This book provides assistance to event organizers, managers, and planners to reduce, in some cases eliminate, these types of losses.
Dan Remenyi, Brian Williams, Arthur Money, Ethen Swartz. Doing Research in Business and Management: An Introduction to Process and Method
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This wide-ranging text comprehensively overviews management research and research methodology. The authors take the reader through all the major stages of the research process and introduce the key methods. After highlighting the different contexts andpurposes, strategies and tactics, programmes and processes of management research, the authors provide detailed coverage of the relevant research approaches and methods. They discuss the interrelationship of theoretical and empirical research, and how these apply to practice. The implications of using quantitative and qualitative methods are examined, and practical advice is given on the available analysis techniques and software packages.
Israel Nelken. Implementing Credit Derivatives: Strategies and Techniques for Using Credit Derivatives in Risk Management (Irwin Library of Investment & Finance)
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Credit derivaties are the hottest topic in institutional investing today. These innovative products are widely used throughout the financial world, with estimates of as much as $100 billion traded by 2000. Implementing Credit Derivatives goes beyond the basics of what credit derivatives are and tackles the reality of implementing them into a derivatives and credit management strategy. There is an emphasis on the practical side of how to effectively use these instruments. Numerous case studies illustrate many key points. The reader will gain the necessary skills to gain maximum benefit from using these instruments, learning: how to exploit credit derivatives for maximum profit; the structure of mechanics of alternative credit derivative products; key regulatory and legal issues; successful strategies for trading and hedging credit derivatives; effective use of credit derivatives in emerging markets.
Nauzer J. Balsara. Money Management Strategies for Futures Traders
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons, LtdYear:1992
The techniques of money management can mean the difference between sound investing and reckless gambling in the futures markets. This long-awaited guide shows you the art of disciplined risk-taking in order to avoid getting annihilated as a speculator. In Money Management Strategies for Futures Traders, you'll learn how to integrate proven money management strategies into the trading of futures. Requiring almost no mathematical expertise, it shows you how to measure and limit risk-without compromising the enormous benefits that attracted you to these markets in the first place. You'll learn how to: - Master the money management process and all its components - Choose the markets that are right for you - Assess your risk and reward trade-by-trade - Allocate your capital across competing opportunities - Use probability theory to reduce risk dramatically - Use leverage intelligently - Harness the laws of probability to improve your odds...
Tom James. Energy Price Risk: Trading and Price Risk Management
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Energy Price Risk is the practitioner's guide to optimizing company performance using the correct price risk strategies and tools. Based on the author's extensive experience in the commodity derivatives industry, it comprehensively covers thefull spectrum of the energy complex, including crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas, LPG/LNG, and electricity. Using many worked examples, this book offers practical insights and solutions.
M. Anthony Wong. Trading and Investing in Bond Options: Risk Management, Arbitrage, and Value Investing
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To become successful in the bond options market, it is important for professionals to gain a basic, yet thorough understanding of how options are priced, traded, and used in interest-rate risk and fixed-income portfolio management. Provides practical answers to questions that new participants will ask as they become more sophisticated in the bond option market. It describes the U.S. government bond options markets and discusses how options pricing and computer technologies are used in market-making, strategic trading, and value investing. After introducing standard options terminology, it provides background data on U.S. Treasury bonds, bond options pricing models, advanced pricing models, the fundamentals of bond options dealing, strategies driven by interest rate forecasts, the most widely used structured portfolio strategies involving options, and more.
Susan M. Mangiero. Risk Management for Pensions, Endowments and Foundations (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)
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Praise for Risk Management for Pensions, Endowments, and Foundations "The role of the fiduciary is more complicated than ever. Simply recognizing the numerous types of financial investment and legal risks and how they uniquely relate to pension plans, endowments, and foundations is a challenge. Susan Mangiero simplifies this maze in an easy-to-understand fashion in a book that should be a core reading for any trustee." ?Richard Apostolik President and CEO, Global Association of Risk Professionals, Inc. "Susan Mangiero knows how to synthesize the elements of financial risk for the novice fiduciary. Whether serving on the audit or investment committee of a pension plan, endowment, or foundation, this book provides valuable insights into the fundamentals of risk assessment, risk measurement, and risk management." ?Suzanne M. Crosby, PhD Institutional Sales for Foundations & Endowments, Merrill Lynch "As a legal advisor to...
Frank J. Fabozzi. Advances in Fixed Income Valuation Modeling and Risk Management (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)
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Advances in Fixed Income Valuation Modeling and Risk Management provides in-depth examinations by thirty-one expert research and opinion leaders on topics such as: problems encountered in valuing interest rate derivatives, tax effects in U.S. government bond markets, portfolio risk management, valuation of treasury bond futures contract?s embedded options, and risk analysis of international bonds.
Kevin Dowd. Beyond Value at Risk: The New Science of Risk Management
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons, LtdYear:2003
Ralph Vince. The New Money Management: A Framework for Asset Allocation
Publisher:WileyYear:1995
In his bestselling Portfolio Management Formulas and The Mathematics of Money Management, Ralph Vince brought the complex mathematics of probability and modern portfolio management theory down to earth for traders and investors. He introduced innovative new ways they could be used to maximize account management decisions. Now, in this groundbreaking new book, Vince takes a quantum leap forward to provide investment professionals with a proven new approach to portfolio management that overturns nearly a half-century of accepted wisdom about asset allocation and money management. The culmination of Ralph Vince's years spent probing the limits of the mathematics of portfolio management, "The New Money Management: A Framework for Asset Allocation" elaborates on his celebrated Optimal f notion - a concept which will be familiar to readers of either of Vince's previous books - to provide a revolutionary portfolio management model designed to optimize account performance, not just in...
Satyajit Das. Swaps and Financial Derivatives : Products, Pricing, Applications and Risk Management (Wiley Finance)
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Volume 1 consists of 4 Parts divided into 16 Chapters covering the role and function of derivatives, basic derivative instruments [exchange traded products (futures and options on futures contracts) and over-the-counter products(forwards, options and swaps)], the pricing and valuation of derivative instruments, and derivative trading and portfolio management. Volume 2 consists of 8 Parts and 18 Chapters covering risk management, market risk metodologies (including VAR and stress testing), credit risk in derivative transactions, other derivative trading risks (liquidity risk, model risk and operational risk), organizational aspects of risk management and operational aspects of derivative trading. The volume also covers documentation/legal aspects of derivative transactions (including the ISDA documentary framework), accounting treatment (including FASB 133 and IAS 39 issues), taxation aspects and regulatory aspects of derivative trading affecting banks and securities...
Alexander Elder. Study Guide for Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
Publisher:WileyYear:1993
An eminent futures trader explores crucial factors in the markets that most experts overlook—time, volume and open interest—and describes little-known indicators to profitably track them. Covers all the popular technical approaches to futures, options and stock markets including Elliott Wave, oscillators, moving averages, Market Logic, point-and-figure charting. Explains why most traders sabotage themselves and how to avoid doing the same.
Alexander Elder. Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
Publisher:WileyYear:1993
Trading for a Living Successful trading is based on three M?s: Mind, Method, and Money. Trading for a Living helps you master all of those three areas: How to become a cool, calm, and collected trader How to profit from reading the behavior of the market crowd How to use a computer to find good trades How to develop a powerful trading system How to find the trades with the best odds of success How to find entry and exit points, set stops, and take profits Trading for a Living helps you discipline your Mind, shows you the Methods for trading the markets, and shows you how to manage Money in your trading accounts so that no string of losses can kick you out of the game. To help you profit even more from the ideas in Trading for a Living, look for the companion volume?Study Guide for Trading for a Living. It asks over 200 multiple-choice questions, with answers and 11 rating scales for sharpening your trading skills. For example: Question Markets rise...
Brian Coyle. Currency Futures (Glenlake Series in Currency Risk Management)
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The Currency Risk Management series offers readers, researchers, and financial professional a time-tested training tool for understanding and working in the increasingly complex currency markets. This series breaks new ground in simplicity, clarity, and ease of application in risk management practice.
Carol Alexander. Risk Management and Analysis, New Markets and Products (Wiley Series in Financial Engineering)
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In the two years since the publication of The Handbook of Risk Management and Analysis interest and the practice of management, modelling and control of financial risks has grown enormously. The author/editor has produced two stand-alone or companion volumes. Only one third of the original material remains. New Markets and Products begins with two chapters on emerging markets. The book then goes on to cover markets and products of increasing complexity: standard equity and interest rate derivatives, exotic options, swaps (and swaptions), volatility trading and finally credit derivatives. The contributors are all acknowledged experts in their field: Michael Howell, Mark Fox, Ian King, Chris Rogers, Andrew Street, Riccardo Rebonato, Edmond Levy, Bryan Thomas, Vincent Lacoste, Desmond Fitzgerald and Blythe Masters. New Markets and Products will be an essential reference tool for risk managers, institutional investors, fund managers, bankers, corporate treasurers and financial...
Brian Coyle. Measuring Credit Risk (The Glenlake Risk Management Series)
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A business and/or credit manager needs to know how decisions about giving and taking credit can be reasched and to understand in more detail how the various methods of analysis are used. That is the purpose of this book. It introduces the various means of assessing credit worthiness and applies them to different situations. This book explains the role played by credit rating agencies and the natur eof the ifnroamtion suppied. It also explains what other sources of information can be obtained. Having established the kind of infroamtion that is necessar to guage the level of credit risk, the manual examines in turn the various methods of assessing differen industries. This includes in-house credit assessments, industry and country risk, setting and policing credit limits and credit deterioration. It also includes specific guidance on assesing the creditworthiness o banks.
