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1. |  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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2. |  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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3. |  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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4. |  By: Kevin R. Mirabile 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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5. |  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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6. |  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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7. |  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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8. |  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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9. |  By: Antonio Castagna Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 19-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FX Options and Smile Risk
The FX options market represents one of the most liquid and strongly competitive markets in the world, and features many technical subtleties that can seriously harm the uninformed and unaware trader.
This book is a unique guide to running an FX options book from the market maker perspective. Striking a balance between mathematical rigour and market practice and written by experienced practitioner Antonio Castagna, the book shows readers how to correctly build an entire volatility surface from the market prices of the main structures.
Starting with the basic conventions related to the...
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10. |  The Risk of Trading: Mastering the Most Important Element in Financial Speculation By: Michael Toma Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 17-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Risk of Trading: Mastering the Most Important Element in Financial Speculation
Develop the skills to manage risk in the high-stakes world of financial speculation
The Risk of Trading is a practical resource that takes an in-depth look at one of the most challenging factors of trading—risk management. The book puts a magnifying glass on the issue of risk, something that every trader needs to understand in order to be successful.
Most traders look at risk in terms of a "stop-loss" that enables them to exit a losing trade quickly. In The Risk of Trading, Michael Toma explains that risk is ever-present in every aspect of trading and advocates that traders adopt a...
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11. |  By: David M. Darst Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Protect assets during times of crisis with this new edition of the New York Times bestseller!
When the first edition of this book appeared it was before the economic crash. This new edition shows how David Darst's particular kind of asset allocation helped his investors during that volatile period. It also contains a discussion of downside and risk tolerance and new self-tests for determining your risk tolerance. And, finally, it reveals how the asset allocation model has changed since 2008. In all of these areas, the author will continue to include new insightful anecdotes like those...
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12. |  Trading Basics: Evolution of a Trader By: Thomas N. Bulkowski Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 15-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Trading Basics: Evolution of a Trader
Comprehensive coverage of the four major trading styles
Evolution of a Trader explores the four trading styles that people use when learning to trade or invest in the stock market. Often, beginners enter the stock market by:
Buying and holding onto a stock (value investing). That works well until the trend ends or a bear market begins. Then they try
Position trading. This is the same as buy-and-hold, except the technique sells positions before a significant trend change occurs.
Swing trading follows when traders increase their frequency of trading, trying to catch the...
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13. |  Investments: Analysis and Management, 12th Edition By: Charles P. Jones Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Investments: Analysis and Management, 12th Edition
In today's economy, it's critical for investors to have a strong understanding of the strategies needed to make the best decisions. Jones arms them with the most up-to-date information in the field while offering a proper balance between investment opportunities, techniques and analytics. He includes new discussions on the rapid rise and interest in exchange-traded funds, the new NYSE-Euronext market, the merger of the NYSE and Amex, and more. Expanded coverage is also presented in behavioral finance and the bond markets. In addition, investors will benefit from the updated problems and...
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14. |  Learn How to Trade Commodities (Collection) By: George Kleinman; Carley Garner Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 26-APR-2013 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learn How to Trade Commodities (Collection) A brand new collection of high-profit
commodity trading techniques and insights… 2 authoritative
introductory guides, now in a convenient e-format, at a great
price!
2 authoritative eBooks bring together all
the knowledge you need to start earning consistent profits in
commodities trading!
You can make huge profits by trading
commodities – if you know how. You must know how these
markets work, how they’re different, where the risks are
hidden, and how to avoid the mistakes too many beginners make. You
need realistic, up-to-the-minute strategies, skills, and knowledge
from experts who...
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15. |  Options Made Easy: Your Guide to Profitable Trading, Third Edition By: Guy Cohen Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 29-APR-2013 Insert Date: 25-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Options Made Easy: Your Guide to Profitable Trading, Third Edition Master option trading, visually, hands-on --
and discover the powerful, easy-to-use OVI indicator that leads the
market, revealing what the world's savviest option traders are
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Guy Cohen's international best-seller Options Made Easy,
which has earned a worldwide reputation for its simplicity, clarity
and hands-on practicality. With outstanding graphics for
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is designed to reinforce every new trader's learning
experience.
Using plain English and clear...
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16. |  Zero Risk Real Estate: Creating Wealth Through Tax Liens and Tax Deeds By: Chip Cummings Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 12-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 13-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Zero Risk Real Estate: Creating Wealth Through Tax Liens and Tax Deeds
Get the confidence and tools to take advantage of this growing method of investing
Tax liens sales and tax deed auctions, conducted by governmental agencies for delinquent taxes on real estate, are not new—they have been around for more than 200 years. But until recently, they remained a small niche market for investors. However, as more people become delinquent on their real estate taxes due to the increased foreclosure market, and local governments look for revenues wherever they can find them, this investing methodology has become increasingly popular - and it can be done from...
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17. |  How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio By: Ben Stein Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 02-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio
Hilarious advice on what NOT to do with money, from financial funny man Ben Stein
Everyone's searching for the secrets to financial success, but what about the best ways to lose money . . . fast?! In How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio, bestselling author, economist, financial commentator, and media personality Ben Stein explains exactly what to do . . . to go bust! The ultimate "how-NOT-to" guide, the book gives readers invaluable tips that should be avoided at all costs. Written in Stein's own inimitable style, this hilarious guide provides essential financial advice...
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18. |  Diary of a Hedgehog: Biggs' Final Words on the Markets By: Barton Biggs Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Diary of a Hedgehog: Biggs' Final Words on the Markets
Barton Biggs was a Wall Street legend, trusted by investors around the globe. Now, in his last book, Biggs offers savvy insights into the innermost workings of the markets—today and for the years to come. Packed with keen insights, global experiences, and opinionated stances on investing, Diary of a Hedgehog: Biggs' Final Words on the Markets explores the ongoing downward economic spiral and where it's headed, to help readers keep their money safe and secure.
Offering a unique look at the current state of the markets, why they continue to be depressed, and where we can go from here,...
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19. |  By: Pascal Dénos Publisher: Editions d'Organisation Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SCI
PrésentationLa grande souplesse de la SCI autorise de nombreux montages afin d'adapter la structure juridique à vos objectifs.Dans un environnement de plus en plus instable, il devient urgent de se constituer un patrimoine. La création d'une société civile immobilière répond bien à cette démarche.Ce guide synthétique en explique l'intérêt de façon pédagogique et simple : pourquoi la créer ? Comment procéder ? Quelle gestion mener ? Comment y mettre fin ? Le lecteur non-spécialiste y trouvera toutes les étapes, réponses et astuces pour lancer et réussir ce projet.Les conseils d'un...
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20. |  By: Philippe Herlin Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 08-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: L'or, un placement d'avenir
PrésentationLa valeur refuge par excellenceLa crise de la zone euro, de la dette publique, l'utilisation de la "planche à billet" par les banques centrales, le risque de crise systémique sont autant de signes inquiétants pour notre épargne. Dans ce contexte, l'or revient sur le devant de la scène comme moyen de protéger son capital à travers les turbulences de l'économie.Ce guide pratique fait le point sur l'or comme produit d'épargne : il explique pourquoi il a servi de monnaie depuis les premières civilisations, quels sont les ressorts économiques de son cours, il revient sur la période...
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