Presents explanations for fixed income securities, pricing, and markets. This book emphasizes on institutions, analytics, selected segments of fixed income markets, and fixed income derivatives. It includes material on Credit Default Swaps, Collateralized Debt Obligations, and an integrated discussion of the Credit Crisis.
An investor's guide to understanding and using financial instruments, this book provides comprehensive coverage of a broad range of financial instruments, including equities, bonds, derivatives, insurance investment products, mutual funds, alternative investments, and exchange traded funds.
A comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to new ideas and insights in asset allocation Global Asset Management explores new portfolio management techniques and defines a new, practical framework which will help investors match portfolios to their needs, rather than one that fits a predefined investment profile.
Offers students an understanding of financial derivatives and their use in managing the risks of financial decisions. This title features coverage of options, futures, forwards, swaps, and risk management as well as a balanced introduction to pricing, trading, and strategy.
Breaks down technical analysis into terms that are accessible to individual investors. This book shows investors how to follow the ups and downs of stock prices by visually comparing the charts, without using formulas or having a necessarily advanced understanding of technical analysis math and jargon.
Richard Dennis ran a classified ad in the "Wall Street Journal" looking for trainees. His trainees became known as the "Turtles". This book tells the story of the Turtles, their selection, their training, how they made (and lost) astounding fortunes, and certainly not least, the tools readers will need to start trading like Turtles themselves.
With emerging industrial giants like China and India on the rise, the global demand for energy sources will be increasing at record rates. Previously skeptical of major changes in energy trends, multinational corporations are now strategizing to address this unprecedented situation. This work puts the research on energy investment to use.
A practice-oriented guide to using C to design and program pricing and trading models In this step-by-step guide to software development for traders, the authors show both novice and experienced traders how to develop robust and accurate pricing models and employ them in real environments.
Offers Forex strategies for capturing profits in volatile markets. This book introduces the Forex market and explains six moneymaking techniques for trading Forex, including the Rejection Rule that doubles the profit of basic channel breakout systems. It reveals the secrets of the Forex market and how to create a lifetime of income trading it.
Presents the best ways to define the culture of a practice and segment clients accordingly. This book helps advisors in developing customized client solutions that consider taxes and other constraints. It offers tips on how to avoid 'The Top 10 Advisor Pitfalls'. It also offers personal insights and anecdotes from industry leaders.
There are certain risks associated with the conclusion of a securities transaction, but good training and a firm understanding of post-transaction operations can lessen that risk. This guide is dedicated to serving the training needs of the operational staff responsible for these settlements.
Derivatives are everywhere in the modern world and it is important for everyone in banking, investment and finance to have a good understanding of the subject. Derivatives Demystified provides a step-by-step guide to the subject, enabling the reader to have a solid, working understanding of key derivative products.
The first complete, expert guide to securities and investment fraud Filled with expert guidance for detection and prevention of all kinds of securities fraud and investment misconduct, Securities Fraud helps you identify red flags of fraud and offers practical ways to detect and prevent it.
Benjamin Graham is widely known as the father of Value Investing, and mentor to Warren Buffett. This title shows Graham's important contribution to remaking investment analysis as a profession. It offers us perspectives on investing and financial markets - many as vital in the present day as they were in Graham's own tumultuous mid-20th century.
Offers an overview of developments in behavioral finance. This volume presents twenty papers by leading specialists that illustrate the abiding power of behavioral finance - of how specific departures from fully rational decision making by individual market agents can provide explanations of otherwise puzzling market phenomena.
A guide to fixed income securities. It offers information on the advanced products, analytical tools, methodologies, and strategies for identifying and capitalizing on the potential of the fixed income securities market in order to enhance returns. It provides you with the best techniques for taking advantage of this market.
For undergraduate and graduate courses in corporate finance or financial management. This book focuses on active learning by teaching students how to build and estimate financial models using Excel so they understand the steps involved, rather than being handed completed spreadsheets.
Designed for those investors who are already familiar with the fundamentals of the investment process and are looking to take their finances to the next level, this title offers readers information on investment techniques, along with options ranging from stocks and mutual funds to trading on the Foreign Exchange and buying investment properties.
Makes a case for range-bound market conditions and offers readers a practical strategy for proactive investing that improves profits. This guide offers fresh approaches to margin of safety and presents terrific insights into buy and sell disciplines, international investing, 'Quality, Valuation, and Growth' framework, and more.
Suitable for those trying to understand the mechanics of Collateralised debt obligations (CDOs), this work provides an analysis concerning the CDO sector including: a comprehensive overview of the market and application of CDOs; an analysis of the severe 2005 and 2007 CDO crises; and, a technical overview of CDO hedging approaches.
An informative guide offering new and innovative ways to think about active management and investing ActiveBeta Indexes presents exciting new research that shows how above-market returns can be achieved in a low-cost, transparent, and efficient fashion.
Everything you need to know about the most important trend in the history of the world Within most people's lifetimes, the developments in the biotechnology sector will allow us to live increasingly long and healthy lives, as well as provide us with technological innovations that will transform the way we live.
Provides information on how to get started generating high-investment returns with low risk. This book helps you learn: what currency trading is; how to invest in foreign currency; trading strategies and tactics; technological considerations; how to set up your account online; purchase currency online; and, day trader insights.
Provides a basic grounding in the use of probability to model random financial phenomena of uncertainty, and is targeted at an advanced undergraduate and graduate level. This book contains applications of both discrete time theory and continuous time mathematics, and is extensive in scope.
A simple, straightforward guide to the fundamentals of technical analysis Technical analysis is a collection of techniques designed to help people make trading decisions. Technical Analysis For Dummies, 2nd Edition explains the basic principles and shows you how to apply these principles in an approachable and non-intimidating way.
Invaluable information regarding one of the biggest worldwide growth areas in investing-infrastructure assets Infrastructure investing is about to explode on the worldwide scene. The fact is that real money will need to be spent on real projects-which will present real opportunities for stable, long-term returns.
Applied Essentials - Foreign Exchange, The Complete Deal is a comprehensive guide to the currency markets - the largest in the world - and trading. Written by a seasoned campaigner, the book guides you through the market jargon and mystic of foreign exchange to get to the heart of how currencies are traded.
Offers a practical, step-by-step introduction to the design of pricing engines with VBA. This book teaches students and practitioners the numerics and design of a powerful pricing tool in VBA and, leads the reader through the basics of VBA, from simple procedural code to the advanced design of systems and object-style applications.
Tells the story of Wall Street from its post-war heyday to present woes. From various Goldmans, Sachses, and Lehmans through to Richard Fuld, Henry Paulson and Tim Geithner, this work tells the story of the shifting US market economy through the actions of the people who've shaped it over the years.
A guide to interactive computer trading simulation that is designed to provide participants with hands-on experience in making tactical decisions and implementing them in different market environments-from continuous order drive markets to call auction markets, and from dealer markets to dark liquidity pools.
A comprehensive look at the emergence of infrastructure finance Just as infrastructure development acts as a catalyst for economic growth, it is also changing the landscape for potential investors and the burgeoning field of infrastructure finance.
Dealing with technical analysis, this book is suitable for courses taken to achieve the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation and Series 86 exam exemption. Using more than 200 illustrations, it shows ways to analyse both markets and individual issues and presents investment systems and portfolio management plans.
An essential guide to the fast growing area of binary options Long the province of professional traders, binary options are now offered to retail investors through the North American Derivative Exchange (Nadex) and a growing group of online brokerages.
A title suitable for researchers who aim to get acquainted with the new trends in the interest rate models and to practitioners with a need to use increasingly sophisticated tools to price exotic claims consistently with the information on the underlying variables that is provided by the market in terms of plain vanilla"es.
Building on the success of the author's previous book Beyond the J Curve:Managing a Portfolio of Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds, this work covers new and additional material and offers advanced guidance on the practical questions faced by institutions when setting up and managing a successful private equity investment programme.
Combines theory with valuation to provide coverage of the topic area; provides worked examples and spreadsheet models on CD ROM to help readers understand derivative instruments and their uses; and covers the various developments in derivatives. This book is useful for derivatives traders, salespersons, financial engineers, and risk managers.
Aims to give a picture of how and why the financial markets function as they do. This book features definitions of financial terms, worked examples of transactions and contracts, summaries and overviews, valuation techniques, quick Quiz questions, strip cartoons to explain complex trades; and, other Resources section.
Bringing together the topics of infrastructure investments, project finance and public private partnerships (PPPs), this title offers investors with the necessary theoretical knowledge and background information as well as practical examples in order to further their understanding of the key aspects of infrastructure investments.
As an original innovator of the portable alpha concept, PIMCO has been managing an increasing number of different portable alpha strategies for investors since 1986. And now, with Portable Alpha Theory and Practice, the PIMCO team shares their extensive experiences with you.
Focuses on the business investment decision-making from the perspective of the portfolio manager. This title aims to expose students to what it is really like to 'run money' professionally by providing the necessary tools. It is used in conjunction with cases, projects, and real-time portfolios requiring 'hands on' application of the material.
Convertible arbitrage involves purchasing a portfolio of convertible securities - generally convertible bonds - and hedging a portion of the equity risk by selling short the underlying common stock. It helps to minimize risk and maximize profits. This guide explains this investment strategy. It explores a wide range of convertible topics.
Inside Private Equity explores the complexities of this asset class and introduces new methodologies that connect investment returns with wealth creation. By providing straightforward examples, it demystifies traditional measures like the IRR and challenges many of the common assumptions about this asset class.
Shows you how to identify numeric clusters and measure timing signals, in order to achieve the highest rate of profitable trades. Filled with real-world trading situations, this book combines classic trading concepts and Fibonacci analysis to enable you to take advantage of the naturally occurring and recurring patterns within the market.
A work about simple, rule-based trading systems of a trend following nature. It reflects the author's belief that successful investing is not complex, that market timing works and that investors should spurn traditional actively-managed products in favour of managing their own investments using index-tracking funds.
Derivatives trading has played a huge part in the global credit crunch that is the biggest story in the world. This book gives a vivid and shocking account of the vicious competition, raw machismo and dirty tricks at work in the riskiest sector of the stock market. It includes a chapter covering this, and various other scandals.
* In the first part of this book the authors look at how some aspects of quantitative modelling has led to the current credit crisis. * They show how a mind-shift is needed within the quant community to move from simple modelers to a more hands on mindset where the modeller understands trading implicitly.
Offers insights into finding diverse investment opportunities in the emergent global economy. From Brazilian farmlands to Colombian gold fields, from Chinese shopping malls to Indian hotels, from South African wine country to the boom/bust souks of Dubai, this title explores the nooks and crannies for hidden investment opportunities.
How can managers increase their ability to calculate price and risk data for financial instruments while decreasing their dependence on a myriad of specific instrument variants? This book builds a practical framework for analysing the market and credit risk exposure of financial instruments and portfolios.
Looks at the pre- and post-crash mortgage market and the mortgage-backed securities based on those mortgages, as well as other asset-backed securities including commercial paper or credit cards. This title explains why securitization remains a primary source of capital for the mortgage market, credit card market and home equity market.
Trading on the financial markets requires the mastery of many subjects, from strategies and the instruments being traded to market structures and the mechanisms that drive executions. Presenting explanations of the activities associated with buying and selling, this book covers principals, agents, and the market venues in which they interact.
C++ is one of the best languages for the development of financial engineering and instrument pricing applications. This book applies C++ to the design and implementation of classes, libraries and latest applications for option and derivative pricing models.
This book coherently presents the current state of the art in asset management research and practice in Europe from a life cycle perspective, explains how the methods and techniques described are connected and shows how they improve the asset life cycle.
This comparative survey of European and US consumer protection schemes offers detailed information on how much protection investors really have in these troubled times. Consumer confidence is at a low ebb as consumers feel unprotected, a result of disasters involving companies such as Enron.
Mention Enron or BCCI and a lack of financial regulation springs to mind. Consumer confidence is at a low ebb, as consumers feel unprotected. This comparative survey of European and US consumer protection schemes offers detailed information on how much protection investors really have.
Traders can mentor themselves and further their development by drawing upon research and practice from psychology and various performance disciplines. Leading associate professor of psychiatry Brett Steenbarger provides a practical collection of validated strategies for enhancing trader performance and changing their psychological patterns.
This tells the story of the development of the private equity industry in Germany. It is the first comprehensive history of the private equity industry for any country, revealing the vicissitudes of private equity investing, warts and all. It is an engaging chronicle for anyone interested in the industry or the modern German economy.
A comprehensive look at the private equity arena With private equity differing from other asset classes, it requires a whole new approach for those trained in more traditional investments such as stocks and bonds. But with the right guidance, you can gain a firm understanding of everything private equity has to offer.
Introduces the world of private equity, explains its rise and various challenges and explores the key ingredients of private equity transactions and the technical issues associated with them. This book includes an analysis of private equity fund structures, due diligence, tax structuring and management, pensions and public to privates.
Learn valuable lessons from the newly successful private equity players operating in China and examine the challenges and opportunities that private equity offers in Chinese finance markets This is the very first publication to deal with private equity finance in China--an investment concept that has proved elusive.
Addressing the various aspects and challenges associated with performing operational due diligence review of both private equity and real estate asset classes, this guide provides readers with the tools to develop a flexible comprehensive operational due diligence program for private equity and real estate.
Addresses the implications of private equity for the governance of corporations, the capital markets in which they operate and the professionals who provide corporate advisory services. This book evaluates and ranks the nature of the risk posed by private equity by situating it within an analysis of the dynamics of financial capitalism.
This accessible introduction to the mathematical underpinnings of finance concentrates on the probabilistic theory of continuous arbitrage pricing of financial derivatives. It includes a solved example for every new technique presented, numerous exercises, and a Further Reading list in each chapter.
This work links cutting-edge academic analysis of portfolio choice to the practical concerns of institutional investors, financial planners, and individual investors. It shows in empirical detail how long-term portfolios should differ from short-term portfolios.
Technical analysis is the art of identifying market turning points at a relatively early stage. This is a basic interactive guide to technical analysis. It teaches hows to interpret charts of futures, stocks markets, and options and identify key support and resistance levels. It shows how to use price and volume patterns to identify breakouts.
Provides practical techniques and strategies to help traders of all abilities, experience levels and styles to enhance their trading performance and psychology. Based on practical coaching and training interventions, personal experiences, and advice from leading traders, this book helps you become a better trader.
Outlines various aspects of a practical trading plan - from entry to exit - that the authors has developed over the course of his twenty-plus-year career. This resource details a proven approach to analyzing market behavior, identifying profitable trade setups, and executing and managing trades - from entry to exit.
Presents an overview of the models that can be used for valuing and managing interest rate derivatives. This book discusses and compares the traditional models such as spot- and forward-rate models, and concentrates on developed Market models. It focuses on the mathematics, and explores a host of practical issues.
This book focuses on the applicability of shariah-based structures and Islamic venture capital to the private equity industry. It includes case studies and examples of business financial appraisals to give an in-depth view of the application and operation of shariah compliant private equity and Islamic venture capital.
This book is a comprehensive and insightful overview of international real estate focusing on three of the BRICs: China, India and Brazil. I was pleasantly surprised to find useful market data and industry profiles for each of the countries that were very consistent with my first hand experience. http://www.pickabook.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=9780470901090http://www.pickabook.co.uk/CoverImages/2010_9_209780470901090.jpg 1-28 GBP28.4842.5 0113
EN97804709019229780470901922Built on ValuesBUSINESS STRATEGYJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd Built on Values by Ann Rhoades, Stephen R. Covey (Foreword)Most leaders know that a winning, engaged culture is the key to attracting top talent-and customers. Yet, it remains elusive how exactly to create this ideal workplace -one where everyone from the front lines to the board room knows the company's values and feels comfortable and empowered to act on them. http://www.pickabook.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=9780470901922http://www.pickabook.co.uk/CoverImages/2010_11_5_19780470901922.jpg 1-28 GBP12.7218.99 0110
EN97804709025929780470902592Search Engine OptimizationJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd Search Engine Optimization by Jennifer Grappone, Gradiva CouzinThe third edition of the bestselling guide to do-it-yourself SEO Getting seen on the first page of search engine result pages is crucial for businesses and online marketers. Search engine optimization helps improve Web site rankings, and it is often complex and confusing. http://www.pickabook.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=9780470902592http://www.pickabook.co.uk/CoverImages/2010_9_209780470902592.jpg 1-28 GBP12.9919.99 1110
EN97804709030259780470903025Brilliant BlackBerry Apps For DummiesCOMPUTER PROGRAMMINGJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd Brilliant BlackBerry Apps For Dummies by Corey SandlerA full-color guide that helps you enhance your BlackBerry app user experience. It covers hundreds of the essential, and effective applications conducive to bolstering your productivity and enhancing your BlackBerry user experience. http://www.pickabook.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=9780470903025http://www.pickabook.co.uk/CoverImages/2010_11_5_19780470903025.jpg 1-28 GBP10.0414.99 0110
EN97804709033919780470903391Risk ManagementBUDGETING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENTJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd Risk Management by Walter V. Haslett (Editor)Key readings in risk management from CFA Institute, the preeminent organization representing financial analysts Risk management may have been the single most important topic in finance over the past two decades. To appreciate its complexity, one must understand the art as well as the science behind it. http://www.pickabook.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=9780470903391http://www.pickabook.co.uk/CoverImages/2010_9_209780470903391.jpg 1-28 GBP43.5565 0116
EN97804709036509780470903650The Accountability Experience Participant Workbook and Self AssessemntMANAGEMENT & MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUESJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd The Accountability Experience Participant Workbook and Self Assessemnt by Linda Galindo* Accountability is a hot issue in business as organizations face the toughest recession in years. Yet the notion of accountability is confused with punishment, fault, blame and guilt. * Accountability expert, Linda Galindo's program will create a mindset for personal accountability and responsibility for organizational results. http://www.pickabook.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=9780470903650http://www.pickabook.co.uk/CoverImages/2010_11_5_19780470903650.jpg 1-28 GBP20.7630.99 0110
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EN97804709037119780470903711Office 2011 for Mac All-in-One For DummiesMICROSOFT OFFICEJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd Office 2011 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies by Geetesh Bajaj, James GordonGet up to speed on the revolutionary changes in Office for the Mac The 2011 version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for the Mac sports major changes from what Mac users are accustomed to. This soup-to-nuts guide gets the Mac crowd up to date quickly and easily. http://www.pickabook.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=9780470903711http://www.pickabook.co.uk/CoverImages/2010_9_209780470903711.jpg 1-28 GBP16.7424.99 0110
EN97804709040159780470904015Financial Risk Manager Handbook + Test BankFINANCEJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd Financial Risk Manager Handbook + Test Bank by Philippe Jorion, GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals)The essential reference for financial risk management Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, the Financial Risk Manager Handbook is the core text for risk management training programs worldwide. http://www.pickabook.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=9780470904015http://www.pickabook.co.uk/CoverImages/2010_11_5_19780470904015.jpg 1-28 GBP80.4120 0110
EN97804709057469780470905746Open Services InnovationPRODUCTION & QUALITY CONTROL MANAGEMENTJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd Open Services Innovation by Henry Chesbrough* Bestselling author and the father of Open Innovation" is back with his most expansive, most generally appealing book on Open Innovation in Services. * Shows how to develop new business models in a world moving toward a service economy.
Emerging Markets For Dummies is a great resource for investors who want to branch out into emerging markets. Savvy investors and business managers will find the important information and advice they need to incorporate these growth areas into their business and investment plans.
Outlines a step-by-step approach to using the sophisticated aspects of Excel macros and VBA programming to model and manipulate financial data. This book also shows how these can be applied to a variety of financial problems and situations, by illustrating many practical examples.
Designed to equip institutional investors and professional money managers with analysis and insights on various key aspects of the rapidly growing financial market, this guide explains the evolution and history of the loan market; primary and secondary markets; analytics and performance; the credit agreement; and, pricing and various legal issues.
The 1 bestselling guide to trend following has been thoroughly updated to reflect 2008's cataclysmic events. Using simple, up-to-the-minute charts from top traders, Covel doesn't just prove this strategy works: he shows why only a technical system based on following price trends can win over the long term.
Features discussions of trading software, online brokers, internet service providers, stock selection, options strategies, market trends, and leveraging a portfolio. This work discusses ten trading systems, each explained with illustrations and graphs - and goes on to provide specific guidelines for locating stocks to trade within each system.
Predicting the future for financial gain is a difficult, sometimes profitable activity. This book focuses on the application of biologically inspired algorithms (BIAs) to financial modelling. It explains computer trading on financial markets and the difficulties faced in financial market modelling.
* Written by a highly experienced practitioner and academic, this book is an easy-to-understand guide to the complex world of today's financial markets. * Filled with insights and real life examples from the trading floor it is essential reading for anyone starting out in trading..
Teaches readers how to manage their money to derive the maximum benefit from what they earn. This book combines investment instruments and capital markets with theoretical detail on evaluating investments and opportunities to satisfy risk-return objectives. It offers insight on how investment practice and theory are influenced by globalization.
The practical guide to investing the Warren Buffett way Creating a Portfolio like Warren Buffett: A High Return Investment Strategy highlights actual trades author Jeeva Ramaswamy has successfully executed using principles established by investment guru Warren Buffet.
Here is a general theory of risk premium, pricing and hedging of financial contracts, based on the optimal portfolio-based theory and allowing for a complete solution of problems. Coverage includes the pricing of the remaining risk in incomplete markets.
Technical analysis is an instrumental analytical tool for seizing opportunities in the stock, bond, futures, and options markets. This book provides an introduction to technical analysis and helps to incorporate it into a trading program. It features a weight-of-evidence approach to technical analysis illustrated with three real market examples.
An author team from Barclays Wealth explains why Modern Portfolio Theory--which relies on investor rationality and "efficient" markets--is no longer a viable approach; they provide a new, more practical strategy addressing the emotional realities of investing
Considered the big thing in the financial community, sovereign wealth funds are state-owned funds composed of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, property or other financial instruments have, nonetheless, been misunderstood and perceived as lacking in transparency. This book explains the nature and management of these funds.
Outlines the tools and techniques needed to understand and apply quantitative methods to investment process. This work offers you practical information and exercises, and contains challenging problems and a set of solutions as well as learning outcome statements and summary overviews.
A guide to managing wealth in modern times. It explores the keys to wealth creation, properly managing risk, asset protection, planning for a prosperous retirement, and many other issues that you need to understand in order to survive and flourish in the economy.
Suitable for financial advisors looking to expand value for their clients and growth and efficiency for their practices, this book contains advice on prospecting, dealing with conflicts of interest, and identifying top challenges and opportunities for wealth managers. It includes personal insights and anecdotes from industry leaders.
The book that applies behavioral finance to the real world Understanding how to use behavioral finance theory in investing is a hot topic these days. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman has described financial advising as a prescriptive activity whose main objective should be to guide investors to make decisions that serve their best interests.
The financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. This title takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivatives business at one of the world's leading investment banks before the crisis.
A comprehensive guide to the Materials sector. This book covers a range of topics from Materials sector basics to specific industry insights to practical investing tactics, including common pitfalls to avoid. It begins with a discussion of Fisher Investments' investing philosophy as it applies to the Materials sector.
This title provides a treatment of futures, plain vanilla options, swaps and the use of exotic, interest rate options in speculation and hedging. In addition, the authors also present the coverage of derivatives within a wider risk management context.
A cutting-edge guide to turning technical analysis into trading success, Chart Your Way to Profits, Second Edition shows you how to use the powerful technology available online in conjunction with technical analysis to assess markets and make the most profitable trading decisions possible.
Timely advice for finding investment opportunities during a global economic crisis In Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis, author Bud Conrad predicts a rough road ahead for our economy and reveals nontraditional investments that can make big money in difficult times.
Filled with easy-to-follow descriptions of the inner workings of high-frequency trading (HFT) systems, alogn with benefits and risks, strategic approaches, and more, All About High-Frequency Trading offers readers inroads into the brave new world of high-frequency trading.
Exchange traded funds are low cost, tax-efficient mutual funds that trade on a stock exchange. Canada is home to the first successful ETF in the world. This book guides Canadians through the innovative world of ETFs. It includes ETF investment strategies, tax and cost considerations, industry interviews, and a ETF reference section.
Examines the dynamic linkages among the federal budget deficit, interest rates and the stock market for the United States from 1960 to 2006. This title also discusses topics such as the strategic risk assessment techniques that can be applied to investment and trading portfolios in emerging financial markets.
The swaps market is a central market to many businesses, especially among the most liquid of financial contracts. This title offers a fresh insight on the growth of swaps markets worldwide. It includes chapters on FRA curve, asset packaging, theory of hedging, swapping structured securities, Value-at-Risk, and the impact of Credit Derivatives.
Focusing on the core value levers companies can apply in the decision and design phase of capital investments, this book is the first to cover this topic in a holistic, practical, and strategic manner, and is based on McKinsey's extensive industry analysis and research.