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1. |  By: Bobby Jayaraman Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Building Wealth Through REITS
A decade has passed since the launch of Singapore's first REIT, Capita Mall trust in July 2002. Despite that, REITs are not as popular as they deserve to be and continue to be plagued with misperceptions. Singapore REITs are one of the few businesses that offer a direct play on the domestic economy and have proven their resilience through market cycles. This book takes a deep and fundamental look at this asset class and explains why every investor should take a serious look at REITs. Building Wealth Through REITs simplifies REIT investing without sacrificing depth of knowledge. It...
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2. |  An Introduction to Trading in the Financial Markets: Trading, Markets, Instruments, and Processes By: R. Tee Williams Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 18-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to Trading in the Financial Markets: Trading, Markets, Instruments, and Processes
New to the financial markets? Need to bone up on one area or function to move up the ladder, change careers, provide better sales or consulting services. --Provides easy to understand descriptions of all the major elements of the financial markets -- Author is a 28-year veteran of the financial markets -- Filled with graphs and charts that help readers move quickly and easily through the book and acquire the necessary information
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3. |  International Investments in Private Equity By: Peter Cornelius Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 17-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: International Investments in Private Equity
How can private equity investors exploit investment opportunities in foreign markets? Peter Cornelius uses a proprietary database to investigate and describe private equity markets worldwide, revealing their levels of integration, their risks, and the ways that investors can mitigate those risks. In three major sections that concentrate on the risk and return profile of private equity, the growth dynamics of discrete markets and geographies, and opportunities for private equity investments, he offers hard-to-find analyses that fill knowledge gaps about foreign markets. Observing that...
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4. |  Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk, Fifth Edition By: Roger Gibson Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 30-APR-2013 Insert Date: 31-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk, Fifth Edition
The Definitive Guide to Strategic Asset AllocationUniting theory and practice--the art and science of asset allocationInvestors long to beat the market, and money managers accept that as their mandate. The sad reality is that most money managers underperform the market, and individualinvestors do even worse.
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5. | Rough Cuts  Kirkpatrick’s Investment and Trading Strategies: Tools and Techniques for Profitable Trend Following By: Charles Kirkpatrick II Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 26-JUL-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 | Overview: Kirkpatrick’s Investment and Trading Strategies: Tools and Techniques for Profitable Trend Following This is the Rough Cut version of the printed
book.
Master breakthrough trend-based investing techniques based on
proven indicators exhaustively tested through 40+ years of markets!
Charles D. Kirkpatrick II’s Kirkpatrick's Investment
and Trading Strategies presents specific, tested
combinations of indicators for choosing the right stocks--and the
right times to buy and sell them. Don’t waste time analyzing
hundreds of charts over and over again: Kirkpatrick shows you which
ones really matter in choosing new stocks--and in identifying the
trend reversals that tell you exactly when to sell....
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6. |  The Dividend Imperative: How Dividends Can Narrow the Gap between Main Street and Wall Street By: Daniel Peris Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 12-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Dividend Imperative: How Dividends Can Narrow the Gap between Main Street and Wall Street
IF YOU’RE INVESTED IN THE FUTURE OF THE STOCK MARKET, THIS IS YOUR WAKE-UP CALL. DIVIDENDS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. THEY’RE PART OF THE SOLUTION.Forget the Great Recession. According to fund manager and author Daniel Peris, the real threat to investment returns from stocks is the Great Retreat--a 30-year drop in the dividend payout ratio of the leading corporationsin the United States that has rendered the U.S. stock market a grand casino rather than a business investment platform.
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7. |  Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market By: Mark Minervini Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 21-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market
Minervini has run circles around most PhDs tryingto design systems to beat the market. -- JACK SCHWAGER, bestselling author of Stock Market Wizards Mark’s book has to be on every investor’s bookshelf. It is about the most comprehensive work I have ever read on investing in growth stocks.
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8. |  The End of the Risk-Free Rate: Investing When Structural Forces Change Government Debt By: Ben Emons Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 21-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The End of the Risk-Free Rate: Investing When Structural Forces Change Government Debt
A NEW FINANCIAL STRATEGY FOR A NEW FINANCIAL WORLDAs an investor, you’ve probably taken advantage of the risk-free rates in the postcrash economy by putting your money into bonds, stocks, commodities, and currencies. With the rise of government debt across the globe, you can no longer rely on the notion of “safe” to perform asexpected. You need to adapt your investing strategy to a new financial reality.
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9. |  How to Make Money in Stocks Getting Started: A Guide to Putting CAN SLIM Concepts into Action By: Matthew Galgani Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 14-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Make Money in Stocks Getting Started: A Guide to Putting CAN SLIM Concepts into Action
The #1 GROWTH STRATEGY for stock investing“To be a successful investor, start with the basics and stick to the rules. Matt’s book shows you how to do that. It may be the missing link you’ve been looking for.”—William J. O’Neil, Investor’s Business Daily® Founder and Chairman Getting Started takes the guesswork out of investing.
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10. |  By: Brian Nichols Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 22-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
THE ALHPA SEEKER’S GUIDE TO VALUE STOCKSWhen to buy them. How long to hold them. When to sell them.“This book will be welcomed by anyone looking to break free from their financial advisor and manage their own savings.”—DAVID JACKSON, founder and CEO, Seeking Alpha®The world is an uncertain place. This uncertainty impacts the financial markets as much, if not more, than any other space.
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11. |  All About Hedge Funds, Fully Revised Second Edition By: Ezra Zask Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 24-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: All About Hedge Funds, Fully Revised Second Edition
“Every investor stands to benefit from Zask’s long experience and winning narrative.” -- Donald H. Putnam, Managing Partner, Grail Partners LLC“An easy-to-understand history lesson and guide to the often misunderstood world of hedge funds . . . a no-nonsense explanation of the industry written so that just about anyone can understand it. I highly recommend it.”
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12. |  Think Like an Option Trader: How to Profit by Moving from Stocks to Options By: Michael Benklifa Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 24-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Think Like an Option Trader: How to Profit by Moving from Stocks to Options THE SECRET
TO PROFITING FROM OPTIONS:
THINK LIKE
A PROFESSIONAL OPTION TRADER, NOT A STOCK TRADER!
Understand
the unique dynamics of options trades and markets
Practical,
concise insights based on actual option trading scenarios
Master
trade selection, risk management, and more
By
professional options trader Michael Benklifa, best-selling author
of Profiting with Iron Condor Options
Want to win
in options? You must think like a professional option trader. Step
#1: Get rid of the habits you learned in stock trading:
they’re killing you! Step #2: Understand the...
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13. |  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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14. |  An Introduction to Credit Derivatives, 2nd Edition By: Moorad Choudhry Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to Credit Derivatives, 2nd Edition
The second edition of An Introduction to Credit Derivatives provides a broad introduction to products and a marketplace that have changed significantly since the financial crisis of 2008. Author Moorad Choudhry gives a practitioner's perspective on credit derivative instruments and the risks they involve in a succinct style without sacrificing technical details and scientific precision. Beginning with foundational discussions of credit risk, credit risk transfer and credit ratings, the book proceeds to examine credit default swaps and related pricing, asset swaps, credit-linked...
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15. |  The FT Guide to Financial Spread Betting By: Stuart Fieldhouse Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The FT Guide to Financial Spread Betting
If you think spread betting is complex and high risk then think again. Stuart Fieldhouse demonstrates that with the right knowledge and approach it needn’t be. From opening an account and carrying out basic technical analysis through to assessing market opportunities and minimising risk, this book offers a comprehensive walk-through of everything you need to know to trade successfully. The Financial Times Guide to Spread Betting gives you the tools to spread bet with confidence. The book includes: Different ways to trade, the markets available and various approaches you can use...
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16. |  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 29-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
The most up-to-date look at how to understand, and invest in, hedge funds
Hedge funds are an essential part of the alternative investing arena, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. It's important that those investing, or thinking about investing, with hedge funds know exactly what they are about. That's why Kevin Mirabile—a financial professional with over twenty years of business development, regulatory, financing, trading, and sales experience in the hedge fund sector—has created Understanding Hedge Fund Investing.
Page-by-page, this reliable resource offers...
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17. |  By: Triet Nguyen Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 10-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
A practical guide to profiting from the high yield municipal market
This unique guide to the high yield municipal bond market sheds some much-needed light on this esoteric but profitable corner of the fixed-income world. It fills the void between the general reference handbooks on municipal bonds and the superficial treatment of do-it-yourself bond guides, with an emphasis on practical trading applications.
Having witnessed the beginning of the modern high yield tax-exempt institutional market, author Triet Nguyen documents its historical evolution, outlines a conceptual framework for...
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18. |  Investment Theory and Risk Management, + Website By: Steven Peterson Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 08-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Investment Theory and Risk Management, + Website
A unique perspective on applied investment theory and risk management from the Senior Risk Officer of a major pension fund
Investment Theory and Risk Management is a practical guide to today's investment environment. The book's sophisticated quantitative methods are examined by an author who uses these methods at the Virginia Retirement System and teaches them at the Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to showing how investment performance can be evaluated, using Jensen's Alpha, Sharpe's Ratio, and DDM, he delves into four types of optimal portfolios (one that is fully...
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19. |  The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't, 2nd Edition By: Kenneth L. Fisher; Jennifer Chou; Lara Hoffmans Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 10-APR-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't, 2nd Edition
Ken Fisher explains what the competition doesn't know
From investment expert and long-time Forbes columnist Ken Fisher comes the Second Edition of The Only Three Questions That Count. Most investors know the only way to consistently beat the markets is by knowing things others don't. But how can investors consistently find unique information in an increasingly interconnected world?
In this book, Ken Fisher shows investors how they can find more usable information and improve their investing success rate—by answering just three questions.
Packed with more than 100 visuals and...
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20. |  The Indomitable Investor: Why a Few Succeed in the Stock Market When Everyone Else Fails By: Steven M. Sears Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 03-APR-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Indomitable Investor: Why a Few Succeed in the Stock Market When Everyone Else Fails
A new approach to investing based on how Wall Street insiders approach the market
The Indomitable Investor deconstructs the stock market as the public has come to know it and reconstitutes it from the inside out from the perspective of the fortunate few who dominate Wall Street. By revealing how top investors and traders think and act Steven Sears shows the stock market to be an undulating ocean of money, with seasoned investors reading the waves others cannot.
Teaching readers to think about the market in radically different ways, The Indomitable Investor shows how to improve...
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