Investment and securities Books

The book deals with actual situations that resulted in investors losing multi-millions of dollars to financial tricksters. Emphasis is placed upon learning how to detect early warning signs. Financial exposure can be minimized prior to situations...

Mutual funds are fast becoming America's investment choice, largely because of their sheer variety. But, with so many mutual funds to choose from more than 8,000 at last count it's hard for many people to pick the right ones for them.

Business is no longer simply business when west meets east, when you are dealing with some people who are from different cultures and have different philosophies. What it requires is a series of best informed decisions to have things done right...

In this original investment book, the author provides a blend of topics combining the tools taught in finance classes with the practical experience of someone with three decades of investment success. The author covers several topics including the...

Asking the question of whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is 'integrating' the world economy, this comprehensive volume consists of an overview of current FDI research. While the term 'integrating' is often used, the real test should be...

First published in 2009. The limited text material available to highlight the relationships among capital structure, managerial incentives and valuation has also constrained teaching efforts at business schools. Long-term Investments is intended to give...

This is the first major treatment of the effects of increased transparency on financial markets: an important and highly controversial issue for both traders and regulators. Focussing on three main themes - market transparency, the...

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the major economic indicators in the US and the Euro Zone. Following an introduction to the construction of indicators and the basic concepts behind their use, the specific characteristics of...

The Growth and Impact of Inward Investment in the UK: Introduction and Overview The Determinants of Host Country Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature Inward Investment and Technical Progress in the United...

This book provides a guide to 20 years of China's stock markets. Carl Walter and Fraser Howie analyze the changes that have occurred in all areas of China's securities industry including legal, regulatory, share structure, issuers, investor base, and...

Preface Acknowledgements Prologue From Frontier to Finance The Money Question A Foundation of Trust A Turning Point Adversity and Survival The Agency System War and Betrayal Into the Sunset Epilogue Notes on Sources

This practical guide to real estate investment is easy to read and understand. Packed with innovative ideas and typical examples, this book can assist homebuyers to fulfill their dreams and help real estate investors to establish their real estate...

The book provides an excellent guide to avoiding bear markets. It also provides new asset allocation techniques that demonstrate methods to outperform the general stock market averages over time, with less risk.

Marino Specogna is a convicted stock market manipulator who exposes in a straight forward manner the deceptive techniques used by manipulators and traders to scam your hard earned dollars. The book goes into detail on the factors an individual investing...

The Financialization of Latin American Real Estate Markets: New Frontiers introduces the fundamental principles of urban economics, housing, and large-scale real estate development in Latin America and equips aspiring investors and developers with the...

Real Estate Valuation: A Subjective Approach highlights the subjective valuation components of residential and commercial real estate, which can lead to a range of acceptable property value conclusions.It discusses the causes of housing booms and goes in...

The popular academic conception that hedge fund returns are simply beta in alpha clothing is an important case for passive replication of hedge fund returns. If much of the returns of hedge funds are not true alpha but rather beta, it could make more...

The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. To understand many manifestations, past and present, of superiority, we need to do more than just apply the allegedly ubiquitous...

Read on and Start Investing within Reading the First 20 Pages!Imagine waking up one day and realizing you can halve your working hours and spend most of your time with your loved ones.Instead of rushing to go to work, you can have a slow morning cup of...

It is a well-known fact that most physicians have a substantial earning capacity, whether they are general practitioners, orthopedics, or neurosurgeons. However, generating a 6-figure income does not always translate into the creation of substantial...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

How To Grow And Market Fruit is a comprehensive guidebook written by Harrison�������s Nurseries that provides practical explanations and directions for growing and marketing fruit trees to produce a profit. The book covers a wide range of topics,...

Specialists and floor brokers, in direct contact on the trading floor, are at the heart of operations at the national U.S. equity exchanges. At the other end of the spectrum, electronic trading platforms characterize most other...

The book provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of the internal and external challenges of processing venture capital deals, providing an eight stage investment model that breaks down each part of the deal into its own specific challenges and...

This collection of conference papers presents a contemporary insight into key trends impacting on the global financial sector post crisis and highlights new policy and research areas affecting banks and other financial institutions. The four main themes...

It is not easy to have the confidence and competence to manage a pension scheme successfully. In this book, Andrew Clare and Chris Wagstaff provide a uniquely objective and practical guide to the range of markets, investments, tools and techniques to...

The science behind and economic consequences of fear are explained by demonstrating how fear can drive markets to disastrous lows and how the financial industry profits most when fear and volatility are highest. The reader is offered recommendations that...