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Real-world guidance for investment professionals on delivering attractive risk-adjusted and opportunity-directed returns across asset classes and regions Filled with interviews with leading practitioners, this book weaves a narrated web around best sustainable investment practic…
"Real-world guidance for investment professionals on delivering attractive risk-adjusted and opportunity-directed returns across asset classes and regionsFilled with interviews with leading practitioners, this book weaves a narrated web around best sustainable investment practic…
The subject matter for this edition of Investments has evolved considerably since 1978 when the first edition was published. For example, in the last several years international investing has expanded rapidly, securities such as swaps and mortgage derivatives have become increas…
The subject matter for this edition of Investments has evolved considerably since 1978 when the first edition was published. For example, in the last several years international investing has expanded rapidly, securities such as swaps and mortgage derivatives have become increas…
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"Proceedings of the second Public Pension Fund Management Conference, May 2003."
This book provides an interesting combination of papers, each related to governance at different levels. Governance is assessed from the regulatory point of view, the firm's point of view, the investor's point of view, and from the market's point of view. The question is how dif…
"This book provides an interesting combination of papers, each related to governance at different levels. Governance is assessed from the regulatory point of view, the firm's point of view, the investor's point of view, and from the market's point of view. The question is how di…
"Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, have only the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works. The reason, say Lynch and Rothchild, is that the basics of investing - the fundamentals of our economic system and what they have to do with the stock market…
The Crisis : Micro-Macro Perspective --Pathology of the Crisis --Subprime Debt Imbroglio: Risks-Rewards of Financial Sophistication --Policy Response --Why Is the Economy Not Taking-Off? --Eurosclerosis: Causation and Control --Evolutionary Economics: A Systemic View --Benign Ne…
* Considers neoclassical models in light of results that can go wrong with them to bring about better models. * Questions the assumption that markets clear quickly. * Offers a timely examination of the LTCM collapse. * Written by a group of well-respected and highly qualified au…
"Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa, and trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and opium to i…
