Securities category: 3176 books
The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder
Labor’s Last Best Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
When Steven Burd, CEO of the supermarket chain Safeway, cut wages and benefits, starting a five-month strike by 59,000 unionized workers, he was confident he would win. But where traditional labor action failed, a novel approach was more successful. With the aid of the California Public Employees’...
by Tadas Viskanta
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A SMART, BACK-TO-BASICS APPROACH FOR GENERATING INVESTMENT RETURNS IN TODAY’S TURBULENT MARKETS
“Abnormal Returns seeks to demystify investment strategies and help investors find the path that is right for them, and, in so doing, should help investors succeed on the sometimes perilous road...
Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management
How to Build Optimal Portfolios That Account for Investor Biases
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
"Pompian is handing you the magic book, the one that reveals your behavioral flaws and shows you how to avoid them. The tricks to success are here. Read and do not stop until you are one of very few magicians."
—Arnold S. Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer, Martingale Asset Management
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Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management
How to Build Investment Strategies That Account for Investor Biases
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
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...
Behavioral Portfolio Management
How successful investors master their emotions and build superior portfolios
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The investment industry is on the cusp of a major shift, from Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) to Behavioral Finance, with Behavioral Portfolio Management (BPM) the next step in this transition. BPM focuses on how to harness the price distortions that are driven by emotional crowds and use this to create...
Rational Investing
The Subtleties of Asset Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Many investors believe that success in investing is either luck or clairvoyance. In Rational Investing, finance professor Hugues Langlois and asset manager Jacques Lussier present the current state of asset management and clarify the conundrum of luck versus skill. The core of Rational Investing is...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
All investments carry with them some degree of risk. In the financial world, individuals, professional money managers, financial institutions, and many others encounter and must deal with risk. Risk management is a process of determining what risks exist in an investment and then handling those risks...
by Greg N. Gregoriou
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
The following is a chapter from The VaR Implementation Handbook, which examines the latest strategies for measuring, managing, and modeling risk across a variety of applications. Packed with the insights, methods, and models that make experienced professionals competitive all over the world, this comprehensive...
Market Microstructure in Emerging and Developed Markets
Price Discovery, Information Flows, and Transaction Costs
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
A comprehensive guide to the dynamic area of finance known as market microstructure
Interest in market microstructure has grown dramatically in recent years due largely in part to the rapid transformation of the financial market environment by technology, regulation, and globalization. Looking...
Behavioral Finance
Where Do Investors' Biases Come From?
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This unique volume presents new original research exploring factors that lead to investors behavioral biases. It discusses how features such as professionalism, sophistication, gender, media, and culture influence investors' decision-making in general, and in particular, how they generate (or limit)...
Higher Returns from Safe Investments
Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to Generate Lifetime Income
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Today, many risk-averse investors simply can’t meet their income needs with conventional bank CDs, money market funds, or bonds. This book reveals how you can earn more, without exposing yourself to excessive risk or the costs of a highly active trading strategy.
Dr. Marvin Appel...
How to Make Money on the Stock Exchange
The layperson’s guide to successful investing
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
‘How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.’ – Robert G. Allen, investment advisor and author of Multiple Streams of Income In many people’s thinking, the financial markets are reserved only for the wealthy or people with financial...
Wall Street Craps
How to Play Today's Hot & Cold Stock Market for Fast Money with Less Risk
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
STOP LOSING MONEY IN THE STOCK MARKET! Risking your hard-earned money in today’s volatile stock market has become more akin to gambling than it is traditional investing. But despite its wild gyrations, the stock market still qualifies as one of the best investment vehicles in terms of good odds, high...
Beat the Market
Win with Proven Stock Selection and Market Timing Tools
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
“In this compelling book, Gerald Appel distills a lifetime of learning about what works on Wall Street into key principles of investment success. Whether you are new to the world of finance or you’re a veteran portfolio manager, you will gain from Gerald’s innovative research and his discerning...