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Written by admin on 02 March 2010
Unlike other books on treasury management, this book is written by a corporate financial professional to his peers. This book provides forms, controls, policies and procedures that show exactly how to manage the treasury function. The tentative contents is: (1) Risk Management (Foreign exchange; Interest rate; Debt; Derivatives); (2) Financing (Bank financing; Bond financing, valuation, and credit ratings; Asset securitization); (3)
Cash Management (Cash forecasting; Domestic payments; International payments; Cash management concepts: pooling, cash concentration, and intercompany netting); (4) Special Products (Spot foreign exchange; Forward foreign exchange; Foreign exchange swaps; Foreign currency options; Interest rate swaps; Interest rate options); and (5) Treasury systems and Regulatory issues.
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Written by admin on 02 March 2010
A feasible asset allocation framework for the post 2008 financial world
Asset allocation has long been a cornerstone of prudent investment management; however, traditional allocation plans failed investors miserably in 2008. Asset allocation still remains an essential part of the investment arena, and through a new approach, you’ll discover how to make it work.
In The New Science of Asset Allocation, authors Thomas Schneeweis, Garry Crowder, and Hossein Kazemi first explore the myths that plague this field then quickly move on to examine how the practice of asset allocation has failed in recent years. They then propose new allocation models that employ liquidity, transparency, and real risk controls across multiple asset classes.
Outlines a new approach to asset allocation in a post-2008 world, where risk seems hidden
The “great manager” problem is examined with solutions on how to capture manager alpha while limiting downside risk
A complete case study is presented that allocates for beta and alpha
Written by an experienced team of industry leaders and academic experts, The New Science of Asset Allocation explains how you can effectively apply this approach to a financial world that continues to change.
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Written by admin on 09 February 2010
100 ways to tap into social media for a more profitable business
In Social Media 101, social media expert and blogger Chris Brogan presents the best practices for growing the value of your social media and social networking marketing efforts. Brogan has spent two years researching what the best businesses are doing with social media and how they’re doing it. Now, he presents his findings in a single, comprehensive business guide to social media.
You’ll learn how to cultivate profitable online relationships, develop your brand, and drive meaningful business. Brogan shows you how to build an effective blog or website for your business, monitor your online reputation and what people are saying about your business online, and create new content to share with your customers.
- Presents specific strategies, tactics, and tips to improve your business through improved social media and online marketing
- Looks at social media and the wider online universe from a strictly business perspective
If you aren’t using the Internet and social media to market your business and stay in touch with your customers, you’re already falling behind. The Social Media 100 gives you 100 effective, proven strategies you need to succeed.
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| Brogan, Chris – Social Media 101: Tactics and Tips to Develop Your Business Online |
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Written by admin on 09 February 2010
A comprehensive look at the tools and techniques used in quantitative equity management
Some books attempt to extend portfolio theory, but the real issue today relates to the practical implementation of the theory introduced by Harry Markowitz and others who followed. The purpose of this book is to close the implementation gap by presenting state-of-the art quantitative techniques and strategies for managing equity portfolios.
Throughout these pages, Frank Fabozzi, Sergio Focardi, and Petter Kolm address the essential elements of this discipline, including financial model building, financial engineering, static and dynamic factor models, asset allocation, portfolio models, transaction costs, trading strategies, and much more. They also provide ample illustrations and thorough discussions of implementation issues facing those in the investment management business and include the necessary background material in probability, statistics, and econometrics to make the book self-contained.
- Written by a solid author team who has extensive financial experience in this area
- Presents state-of-the art quantitative strategies for managing equity portfolios
- Focuses on the implementation of quantitative equity asset management
- Outlines effective analysis, optimization methods, and risk models
In today’s financial environment, you have to have the skills to analyze, optimize and manage the risk of your quantitative equity investments. This guide offers you the best information available to achieve this goal.
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Written by admin on 09 February 2010
The Investor’s Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between
A timeless approach to investing wisely over an investment lifetime
With the current market maelstrom as a background, this timely guide describes just how to plan a lifetime of investing, in good times and bad, discussing stocks and bonds as well as the relationship between risk and return.
Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Investor’s Manifesto will help you understand the nuts and bolts of executing a lifetime investment plan, including: how to survive dealing with the investment industry, the practical meaning of market efficiency, how much to save, how to maintain discipline in the face of panics and manias, and what vehicles to use to achieve financial security and freedom.
- Written by bestselling author William J. Bernstein, well known for his insights on how individual investors can manage their personal wealth and retirement funds wisely
- Examines how the financial landscape has radically altered in the past two years, and what investors should do about it
- Contains practical insights that the everyday investor can understand
- Focuses on the concept of Pascal’s Wager-identifying and avoiding worst-case scenarios, and planning investment decisions on that basis
With The Investor’s Manifesto as your guide, you’ll quickly discover the timeless investment approaches that can put you in a better position to prosper over time.
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| Bernstein, William J. – The Investor’s Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between |
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Written by admin on 09 February 2010
Organizational harmony and strategic alignment aren’t enough to drive success. Until now, management wisdom would have you believe that the single most important thing leaders have to get right is alignment. To accomplish anything, employees must agree about the mission, strategy, and goals of an organization. Aligned employees are happy employees, and happy employees are productive employees. Simple, right? Well, in a word, no. Counter to conventional wisdom, the dirty little secret of leadership-what they don’t tell you in business school-is that a leader’s time is not always best spent trying to help his or her teams make nice and get along. In contrast, the authors’ groundbreaking research shows that fostering productive dissent is essential for achieving peak efficiency-what Joni and Beyer call “”right fights.”" Right fights need to be well designed and subject to certain rules to be effective. Alignment cannot be ignored; without it, organizations can be plagued with bitter, energy-draining wrong fights. But a certain amount of healthy struggle is good for organizations. Right fights unleash the creative, productive potential of teams, organizations, and communities. The Right Fight turns management thinking on its head and shows why leaders-in the fast-moving, hyper-competitive marketplaces of the twenty-first century-need to foster alignment and orchestrate thoughtful controversy in their organizations to get the best results. Drawing from examples as diverse as Unilever, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Dell, the Clinton administration, and the Katy Independent School System, here is your playbook for picking the right battles and fighting the right fights well.
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| Joni, Saj-nicole – The Right Fight |
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Written by admin on 09 February 2010
Manage the risk and maximize the reward!
Risk. It’s what business is all about. The key to success is to anticipating and managing the risks that can impact business. The Complete Idiot’s Guide(r) to Risk Management provides the key information necessary to manage business risk successfully.
*The basic categories of business risk
*How to indentify the specific factors that affect any particular business
*How to create practical risk models to plan ahead
*How to lessen the impact of risk events should they happen
*How to profit from strategic risk taking
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| Cortez, Annetta – The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Risk Management |
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Written by admin on 09 February 2010
Mojo is the moment when we do something that’s purposeful, powerful, and positive and the rest of the world recognizes it. This book is about that moment-and how we can create it in our lives, maintain it, and recapture it when we need it. In his follow-up to the New York Times bestseller What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, #1 executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shares the ways in which to get-and keep-mojo to build a successful business and/or career. Having corporate or personal mojo means controlling three elements: identity a(who do you think you are?), chievement (what have you done lately?), and reputation (who do other people think you are, what do other people think you’ve done lately?). Goldsmith outlines the positive actions leaders must take, with their teams or themselves, to initiate winning streaks and keep them coming. Organizations and people-from Apple to Harley-Davidson, from Richard Nixon to Robert Downey, Jr.-have shown that it can be done. Goldsmith teaches readers to gauge work in terms of mojo and shares insights that will benefit not only top executives and their companies but any one of us-bringing us to, and keeping us at, the top of our game.
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| Goldsmith, Marshall – Mojo |
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