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1. |  Rethinking Valuation and Pricing Models By: Carsten Wehn; Christian Hoppe; Greg N. Gregoriou Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rethinking Valuation and Pricing Models
It is widely acknowledged that many financial modelling techniques failed during the financial crisis, and in our post-crisis environment many techniques are being reconsidered. This single volume provides a guide to lessons learned for practitioners and a reference for academics. Including reviews of traditional approaches, real examples, and case studies, contributors consider portfolio theory; methods for valuing equities and equity derivatives, interest rate derivatives, and hybrid products; and techniques for calculating risks and implementing investment strategies. Describing new...
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2. |  Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, 2nd Edition By: David Stowell Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 01-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, 2nd Edition
This description of the symbiotic relationships among investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms shows students how firms simultaneously compete and cooperate. The author has captured the ways these firms are reinventing themselves in the post-crash regulatory environment and, through ten extensive cases, the ways in which they are increasing their power and influence. Emphasizes the needs for capital, sources of capital, and the process of getting capital to those who need it. Integrates into the chapters ten cases about recent transactions, along with case notes and...
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3. |  Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability By: Gerard Caprio Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability
Political and social forces exert pressure on our globalized economy in many forms, from formal and informal policies to financial theories and technical models. Our efforts to shape and direct these forces to preserve financial stability reveal much about the ways we perceive the financial economy. The Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability examines our political economy, particularly the ways in which these forces inhabit our institutions, strategies, and tactics. As economies expand and contract, these forces also determine the ways we supervise and regulate....
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4. |  Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure By: Gerard Caprio Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure
Understanding twenty-first century global financial integration requires a two-part background. The Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure begins its description of how we created a financially-intergrated world by first examining the history of financial globalization, from Roman practices and Ottoman finance to Chinese standards, the beginnings of corporate practices, and the advent of efforts to safeguard financial stability. It then describes the architecture itself by analyzing its parts, such as markets, institutions, and infrastructure. The...
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5. |  By: Miran Jus Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 26-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 22-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Credit Insurance
This monograph is practically oriented, presenting a survey and explanation of credit insurance services for protection of short-term trade receivables primarily against commercial risk of insolvency and protracted default. The subject matter (i.e., main functions, features and principles of credit insurance with detailed description of credit insurance coverage, insurance conditions, and credit insurance policy management) follows procedural stages and presents commercial, financial, legal, and practical points of view which emphasize the needs of both the providers of these services...
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6. |  The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization By: Gerard Caprio Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization
The sharp realities of financial globalization become clear during crises, when winners and losers emerge. Crises usher in short- and long-term changes to the status quo, and everyone agrees that learning from crises is a top priority. The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization devotes separate articles to specific crises, the conditions that cause them, and the longstanding arrangements devised to address them. While other books and journal articles treat these subjects in isolation, this volume presents a wide-ranging, consistent, yet varied specificity. Substantial,...
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7. |  Project Finance in Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition By: Stefano Gatti Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 02-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Finance in Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition
This book presents comprehensive coverage of project finance in Europe and North America. The Second Edition features two new case studies, all new pedagogical supplements including end-of-chapter questions and answers, and insights into the recent market downturn. The author provides a complete description of the ways a project finance deal can be organized-from industrial, legal, and financial standpoints-and the alternatives available for funding it. After reviewing recent advances in project finance theory, he provides illustrations and case studies. At key points Gatti brings in...
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8. |  Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk By: Stefan Trueck; Svetlozar T. Rachev Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 15-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk
In the last decade rating-based models have become very popular in credit risk management. These systems use the rating of a company as the decisive variable to evaluate the default risk of a bond or loan. The popularity is due to the straightforwardness of the approach, and to the upcoming new capital accord (Basel II), which allows banks to base their capital requirements on internal as well as external rating systems. Because of this, sophisticated credit risk models are being developed or demanded by banks to assess the risk of their credit portfolio better by recognizing the...
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9. |  Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 9 By: Cheng-Few Lee Publisher: JAI Press Publication Date: 12-JUL-2002 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 9 Twelve papers focus on investment analysis, portfolio theory, and their implementation in portfolio management...
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10. |  By: E. R. Yescombe Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Publication Date: 01-APR-2011 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Public-Private Partnerships
Over the last decade or so, private-sector financing through public-private partnerships (PPPs) has become increasingly popular around the world as a way of procuring and maintaining public-sector infrastructure, in sectors such as transportation (roads, bridges, tunnels, railways, ports, airports), social infrastructure (hospitals, schools, prisons, social housing) public utilities (water supply, waste water treatment, waste disposal), government offices and other accommodation, and other specialised services (communications networks or defence equipment). This book, based on the...
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11. |  Modern Empirical Developments in Corporate Takeovers By: B. Espen Eckbo Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 12-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Modern Empirical Developments in Corporate Takeovers
A selection of republished corporate finance articles and book chapters that can serve as an advanced corporate finance supplementary text for courses that use no textbooks. Combining convenience and an affordable price with retypeset pages and a high-quality index, the 600 pages of volume two, "Bidding Strategies, Financing, and Corporate Control", focus on a range of special topics, ranging from theories and evidence on strategic bidding behavior (offer premiums, toeholds, bidder competition, winner’s curse adjustments, and managerial overconfidence), issues arising when bidding for...
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12. |  Financial Times Guide to Technical Analysis By: Jacinta Chan Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Financial Times Guide to Technical Analysis
Beginning with the very basics of technical analysis and market price behaviour, this book teaches you how to apply these concepts and principles to your own trading. With this comprehensive and straight talking guide you will soon be using the same successful techniques and formulas as the professionals. Learn how to: Understand those trading systems that will generate high returns Identify price patterns and trends Use the right technical indicators to get the best out of the markets Write and execute a trading plan that increases your chances of...
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13. |  The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services, 3rd Edition By: Bharati V. Pathak Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 21-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services, 3rd Edition
The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services is a comprehensive reference book about the financial system. This book is meant for students, professionals, and academicians. It seeks to help the readers hold their own in the modern business scenario. The book is divided into five units. The first unit introduces the economy and the financial system. The second unit covers various concepts of financial markets such as the capital market, the derivatives market, and the debt market. Unit III discusses financial institutions and topics like insurance and mutual funds. The...
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14. |  FT Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan By: Vaughan Evans Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FT Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan
Whether you seek financial backing or board consent, this book will give you the critical knowledge you need to get the go-ahead. Written by a seasoned practitioner with years of experience in both writing and evaluating business plans for funding, it will help you formulate a coherent, consistent and convincing business plan with your backers needs in mind. Follow its guidance and your plan will have every chance of winning the backing you need for your business to succeed. FT ESSENTIAL GUIDES : THE KNOW-HOW YOU NEED TO GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT
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15. |  Trading Systems and Methods, + Website, 5th Edition By: Perry J. Kaufman Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 29-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Trading Systems and Methods, + Website, 5th Edition
The ultimate guide to trading systems, fully revised and updated
For nearly thirty years, professional and individual traders have turned to Trading Systems and Methods for detailed information on indicators, programs, algorithms, and systems, and now this fully revised Fifth Edition updates coverage for today's markets. The definitive reference on trading systems, the book explains the tools and techniques of successful trading to help traders develop a program that meets their own unique needs.
Presenting an analytical framework for comparing systematic methods and techniques, this...
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16. |  By: Suleman Baig; Moorad Choudhry Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 29-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
A step-by-step guide to implementing and closing securitization transactions
Securitization is still in wide use despite the reduction in transactions. The reality is that investors and institutions continue to use this vehicle for raising funds and the demand for their use will continue to rise as the world's capital needs increase.
The Mechanics of Securitization specifically analyzes and describes the process by which a bank successfully implements and closes a securitization transaction in the post subprime era. This book begins with an introduction to asset-backed securities and...
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17. |  By: Abbas A. Mirza; Nandakumar Ankarath Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 23-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Wiley International Financial Reporting Trends provides copious examples of footnote disclosures and financial statement formats, carefully culled from the world's leading international companies ("Global 500") that are already compliant with IFRS and report under IFRS standards promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Board, the IASB. Arranged topically, this book is a quick source of reference to find answers to issues of interest to financial statement preparers. It provides hundreds of illustrations taken from financial statements prepared under IFRS by global...
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18. |  By: Moorad Choudhry Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 29-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Principles of Banking
The ultimate guide for bank management: how to survive and thrive throughout the business cycle
An essential guide for bankers and students of finance everywhere, The Principles of Banking reiterates that the primary requirement of banking—sound capital and liquidity risk management—had been forgotten in the years prior to the financial crash. Serving as a policy guide for market practitioners and regulators at all levels, the book explains the keys to success that bankers need to follow during good times in order to be prepared for the bad, providing in-depth guidance and technical...
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19. |  Management of Banking and Financial Services, 2nd Edition By: Padmalatha Suresh; Justin Paul Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 18-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Management of Banking and Financial Services, 2nd Edition
Management of Banking and Financial Services focuses on the basic concepts of banking and financial services, and how these concepts are applied in the global banking environment as well as in India. In addition to presenting the big picture of the banking and financial services industry, the book also provides useful tips on the trade-off between risk and return. The book examines all of the key aspects of the banking and financial services industry, highlighting both global and Indian applications; it includes three new chapters to address contemporary issues, and provides revised and...
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20. |  By: Sheeba Kapil Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 24-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Financial Management
Financial Management introduces students to the fundamental tools and concepts of corporate finance by explaining the reasoning behind various financial concepts. The book prepares students for life outside the classroom through snapshots from contemporary organizations, solved examples and application-based problems. The book includes short vignettes about the financial practices of organizations such as Steel Authority of India Limited, Hindalco Industries Limited, Amazon.com and Tata Motors; useful facts and rules of thumb, and provide insights into financial practices in organizations...
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