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Building Wealth Through REITS

Building Wealth Through REITS

By: Bobby Jayaraman

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)

Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012

Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013

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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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An Introduction to Trading in the Financial Markets: Trading, Markets, Instruments, and Processes

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

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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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International Investments in Private Equity

International Investments in Private Equity

By: Peter Cornelius

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 17-FEB-2011

Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013

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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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Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk, Fifth Edition

Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk, Fifth Edition

By: Roger Gibson

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 30-APR-2013

Insert Date: 31-MAY-2013

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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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Kirkpatrick’s Investment and Trading Strategies: Tools and Techniques for Profitable Trend Following

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

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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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The Dividend Imperative: How Dividends Can Narrow the Gap between Main Street and Wall Street

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

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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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Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market

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

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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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The End of the Risk-Free Rate: Investing When Structural Forces Change Government Debt

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

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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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How to Make Money in Stocks Getting Started: A Guide to Putting CAN SLIM Concepts into Action

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

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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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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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All About Hedge Funds, Fully Revised Second Edition

All About Hedge Funds, Fully Revised Second Edition

By: Ezra Zask

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 24-JAN-2013

Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013

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“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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Think Like an Option Trader: How to Profit by Moving from Stocks to Options

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

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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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Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk

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

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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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An Introduction to Credit Derivatives, 2nd Edition

An Introduction to Credit Derivatives, 2nd Edition

By: Moorad Choudhry

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012

Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013

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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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The FT Guide to Financial Spread Betting

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

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 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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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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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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Investment Theory and Risk Management, + Website

Investment Theory and Risk Management, + Website

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 08-MAY-2012

Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013

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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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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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The Indomitable Investor: Why a Few Succeed in the Stock Market When Everyone Else Fails

The Indomitable Investor: Why a Few Succeed in the Stock Market When Everyone Else Fails

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 03-APR-2012

Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013

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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...